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What are different home remedies and exercises for Back Pain? Part 2

Causes of Backache
- Sedentary living habits
- Hazardous work patterns
- Psychological conditions associated with emotional stress.
- Spasms of the muscles
- Bad posture or illness
- Overweight.
- Muscular Tension, Straining of the Joints, Poor Posture.
- Kidney or Prostate Problems, Female Disorders, Influenza.
- Sitting for a Long Time, High Heels.

10.) Back Stretches for Back Pain
- Lay on one side and point the bottom leg out straight.
- Draw the top leg up toward your chest.
- Take your bottom arm and pull the knee toward the floor.
- Twist your shoulders the opposite direction.
- Take your top hand and push in spots up and down your body to stretch the spine as you are twisting.
- Then do the other side.
- Do each side for about a minute.

11.) Prolotherapy Natural Remedy for Back Pain
- Prolotherapy involves injecting a natural irritant into the injured area of the spine.
- This stimulates the body’s natural repair mechanism to stimulate growth and replacement of damaged tissues.

12.) Cold Compresses
- Use cold compress using an ice pack.

13.) MA Roller Natural Back Pain Home Remedy
- Buy yourself a MA Roller.
- These work really good for all types of back pain.

14.) Sleep on Floor for Back Pain
- Sleep on the floor for a night or two.

15.) Massage as Home Remedy for Pain in the Back
- Getting a massage can provide great comfort and relief.
- The best way to have a massage is for the person giving the massage to use massage oil.
- There are many types of oils but eucalyptus oil is really good.

16.) Hot Milk Home Remedy for Back Pain
- Drink water or hot milk with soda, salt, and powered dry ginger (sonth) mixed in it to help cure your sore back.

17.) Fish Oil Natural Remedy for Back Pain
- Taking a fish oil capsule every day.
- It is an inexpensive way to help with back pain, wrist aches, and joint pain.
- Omega 3 fatty acids have been shown to reduce inflammation of all types.
- You can also get this as flax seed oil.

18.) Metal Sheet Back Pain Home Remedy
- Take a metalized heat reflecting sheet and put it between the mattress and bottom sheet of your bed.
- This will help apply extra heat to your back.
- This works better than even electric heating pads or hot water bottles.

19.) Hand Towel Back Pain Natural Cure
- Take a wet hand towel, ring it out, place it in the microwave for two to three minutes.
- Put it in a zip lock bag and then wrap a dry towel around it.
- Put this on your sore back and it should help relieve it.
- This is a great natural cure for back pain as well as for other body aches.

20.) Knuckle Rub Natural Home Remedy for Back Pain
- When you’re taking a shower, put some kind of slippery gel on your back and rub your back with your knuckles.
- This will help get all the knots and sore spots out of your back.

21.) Therma Care Natural Cure for Back Pain
- Therma Care heat wraps work great on relieving a sore back.
- They help give your muscles warmth and last up to 10 hours.

22.) Horsetail Natural Remedy for Back Pain
- Have horsetail (a weed type) bath.
- Then wrap yourself in a towel and go to bed.

23.) Tennis Ball Home Remedies for Back Pain
- Lie down on a tennis ball where your back is hurting.
- Move the tennis ball around to where each spot hurts.
- The pain should slowly fade away.

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Itching during Pregnancy – causes and treatment

About 20 percent of all pregnant women have some kind of generalized skin itching. Hormones and stretching of the skin (especially your growing belly) are probably to blame for their discomfort.
About two thirds of all pregnant women have red and itchy palms and soles, a condition that experts think is caused by increased estrogen. In general, it disappears immediately after the baby is born.

Causes:
- The most common cause of itching during pregnancy is the growth of the uterus to accommodate the new baby. As a result, the skin is stretched and itchy. The skin also itches when dry. Xerosis is the term used to describe the condition of dry skin.
- Some women develop skin rashes during pregnancy. The hormones produced during pregnancy act on the body, which is already overheated. The skin rubs against itself or against clothing, and because of the sweat, the skin gets wet which eventually causes the rash. Rashes are also due to prickly heat. These are a bit irritating and are more common in skin folds and wrinkles.
- Some gestures develop a rare disease called scrapie. It results from the formation of small bumps on the body. It mostly occurs in the legs, hands, feet and arms. Also it does not cause any harm to you and your baby, but it is certainly irritating.
- Some pregnant women develop a new condition known as gestational pemphigoid. This condition is characterized by itchy rashes hives. Hives forms lesions that look like blisters. This condition indicates some complications that can lead to fetal growth retardation and preterm delivery. It usually occurs during the third quarter, but there are cases that occurred in early pregnancy.
- Intrahepatic cholestatic pruritus is another condition that occurs during pregnancy. Approximately 2% of pregnant women suffer from cholestasis. It results due to pooling of bile salts, a liver problem. The bile does not flow normally in the small ducts of the liver and gets accumulated in the body. This causes excessive itching during pregnancy. Sometimes the itching is so severe that women end up scratching the skin.

Treatment:
Itchy skin can be treated by trying the following:-

- Apply moisturizer with aloe Vera or calamine. The aloe Vera is anti-bacterial and anti-fungal and nourishes and protects skin. Calamine lotion can also be effective.
- Use a mild soap or shower gel, it will not dry your skin. Dry skin is often itchy. The skin is slightly acidic in nature and use of an alkaline soap can dry the skin out. Most soaps are alkaline, some are neutral pH and fewer still have the same acidity of your skin. Try a neutral pH soap.
- Massage your body with coconut oil or olive oil before a bath. Avoid using a brush or sponge body until the skin stops itching.
- Boil a few neem leaves in a cup of water and add this mixture to your bath water. Some women feel that it relieves itching.
- Wear loose cotton clothing that allows your skin to breathe, especially during the summer months.
- Rash or prickly heat can also cause itching. Try not to avoid going out in the heat of the day, if you can.
- Eat a diet rich in vitamin C, vitamin E, beta carotene and zinc, and drink enough water to keep your skin soft and hydrated.
- Use a soft clean cloth to gently rub the affected areas. Do not use nails, which can draw blood and infect the skin.
- Sometimes, detergent residues on clothing can make you itch for drying out your skin. Choose a mild detergent and rinse your clothes thoroughly.

Loosen up – the best warm-up

If you stretch when the muscles are cold, the risk of injury including pulled muscles is increased. Before you stretch, warm up the muscles with a low intensity activity such as walking for several minutes while gently pumping your arms. Using a light weight do a warm up set of the exercises you are intending to do to target the muscles. Stretching muscles after a more strenuous activity or exercise is also beneficial.
- Save time by holding your stretches : It takes time to lengthen tissues safely. Ideally, hold your stretches for at least 30 seconds up to 60 seconds for a really tight muscle or problem area. If you do so, you will need to do each stretch only once or twice for most muscle groups.
- Ease into each stretch : Spend the first 15 seconds in an easy stretch, just to the point that you feel a mild tension – never bounce. The tension should be comfortable, not painful. Then stretch just a fraction of an inch farther until you again feel mild tension – not pain – and hold the stretch for 15 seconds. If you feel pain, that is too far. Back off to the point where the pain is gone, and that is where you will want to hold the stretch.
- Breathe : Do not hold your breath while stretching. Exhale as you go into a stretch and then breathe slowly and evenly as you hold it.

The Best Warm-Up
If you have time for just one warm-up exercise, try the squat to stand. It improves mobility in the ankles, hamstrings, torso, and upper
back, and is particularly great before a squat workout. Place your feet slightly outside shoulder width and reach your arms overhead. keeping legs as straight as possible, bend at the hips and try to touch your toes. Now squat down to where your thighs are parallel to the floor, and let your arms hang inside your knees. keep your eyes focused ahead the whole time. Then from the squat position, reach both arms up to the ceiling, extending your upper back as much as possible. Now stand up. This is one repetition.