Category: Healthy Living

Healthy Living, Summer

Bug Bite Thing Suction Tool is a Chemical Free Option

Erin Sluka
Bug Bite Thing

Tis the season for bug bites and bee stings! It comes along with camping trips, lake swimming, outdoor BBQ’s. When you have had a good bite it swells, itches and is even painful for days. The best way to reduce symptoms is to catch the bite right away so you can tend to it before the swelling an d stinging occurs. Bug Bite Thing is a suction tool you use as soon as you recognize you have been bit or stung.

chemical free bee sting relief

You simply hold it over the bug bite or sting area and pull up to create a suction you will hold for 10-20 seconds then push down to release suction.

This painlessly and effectively extracts insect saliva/venom from under the skin so that you don’t react to it and get the pain and swelling as fierce. It is reusable and safe to use on all ages.

bug bite tool

How easy is that? No chemicals, no greasy or smelly creams and it works for Mosquitoes – Bees – Wasps – Ants – Biting Flies – Splinters & More! If you flip the cap you get a smaller surface to treat places like finger tips and toes. Plus you can even use this to bring splinters closer to the surface for easier removal. The suction handle is also a sting scraper. Make sure you wash the cap as that is where saliva and venom collects when you suction. You can find The Bug Bite Thing online by visiting their website as well as on Amazon.

Also see this Bug Bite Identification article.

Healthy Living

Prevent and Wear your Pain Away with these Two Pain Relief Brands

Erin Sluka

Whether you are working out at home right now or know you will be back to work after some time off in an active job where summer is nearing and chaffing is common, these products are what you will want to have on hand.

The following products will help in blister and pain relief and are made with healing ingredients to help relieve these discomforts. Starting with MedZone, they aim to make EveryBody feel better!

MedZone has products that work to prevent, treat and manage aches, pains, discomforts, wounds and skin-chafing issues. This BlisterZone stick is one such product that appears similar to a deodorant stick only this helps prevent friction that may cause blisters wherever you apply it.

The BlisterZone stick can be used on your feet where shoes, heels and boots may cause blistering. Swimsuits and work gear such as Military and Law Enforcement gear also can cause friction then blisters, so BlisterZone is here to help. MedZone also has pain rubs, sanitizers and muscle TENS massager packs to name a few. Visit MedZone to order your pain and chaffing products so pain doesn’t slow you down anymore.

Then there is a second brand, Nufabrx. Nufabrx is about infusing topicals such as capsaicin into fabrics such as foot or wrist compression sleeves. This is just one of many ways infused topicals can be of benefit. Nufabrx even has an infused pillowcase for acne. Where MedZone helps prevent and sooth minor pain and blisters, Nufabrx is the treatment of existing aches and pains.

One of the brands featured through Nufabrx is the Hemp Symmetry sleeves they make available at Everything Hemp store. This NEW Hemp Squeeze™ Compression Sleeve provides support, improved circulation, and zoned compression with the benefits of 150mg active CBD that remain effective after multiple (up to 25) washes.

Nufabrx also has Medicated Sleeves from the Ames & walker store. These sleeves for foot, hands, knees, arm and wrist are embedded with pain-relieving capsaicin, these gloves will help relieve joint pain and provide support for all-day relief. 

With Nufabrx you don’t apply creams, take pills or apply patches. You simply wear your healing ingredients. Their products respond to body movement and temperature, are comfortable and breathable and can be washed and used multiple times. I can get knee pain relief without really realizing it once I put the sleeve on! Visit Nufabrx for all that is available to wear your pain away!

Coronovirus 2020, Education, Healthy Living, Parenting

Social & Emotional Learning Resources – Covid-19 Resources for Kids & Teens

Erin Sluka
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources - Covid-19 Resources for Kids
Photo Source: Brainpop.com

With school closures and stores a mess, perhaps the kids are getting a tad anxious or asking questions. I have a brilliant sister who is an Elementary School Counselor who has put together this amazing resource sheet below (Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) Resources – Covid-19 Resources for Kids) for this epidemic as well as any other social issues that could arise with your child.

This download has mini lessons and book recommendations that you can share with your family while home from school and to add to their home studies.

Hopefully you will find it helpful! Keep scrolling for tips for teens too. The links are not clickable directly from the image below, so at the bottom is the download button. Click that and you will open up clickable links.

SEL-Resource-List

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Download created by: Katherine Epstein, School Counselor (Wa State)

What about the teens?

Global leader in Neurodiversity and CEO of The Miracle Project, Elaine Hall, works with neurodiverse teens, young and older adults provide tips and affirmations on how parents, coaches, colleagues, and friends to help calm the mind, ease emotional tensions and promote overall well being amongst those who lack the abilities to do so on their own. 

Below are her tips on How to Ease the Anxiety of Children Throughout the COVID-19 Pandemic

  1. Breath 
    • Implementing a short but powerful breathing meditation helps calm our minds, focus our attention and operate from a place of peace and support for one another. Start by closing your eyes. Take a deep breath as if you are breathing in health and wellness from the Earth. Let this breath travel all the way up from the bottom of your feet up your spine to the top of your head, visualizing that you are filling up every muscle, organ, blood cells with radiant gold healing light.  
    • Then imagine a radiant white light from high above your head beaming into every muscle and cell of your body – keeping your body strong, healthy and vibrant.  Breathe deeply and exhale any fears and anxiety. Continue breathing in this healing white light for five long breaths. When you are ready, open your eyes and notice your health and well being.
    • Affirm: I am strong, healthy and glowing with energy
  2. Logic – Learn the Facts
    • Yes, COVID-19 is a bad virus and we need to protect ourselves from it but this will not last forever. It is important to not get caught up in the hysteria of the moment. There have been bad viruses and diseases in the past and yet we continue to combat them. And while the number of cases of COVID-19 continues to climb each day, so too do the number of people who have completely recovered from the virus. It’s important to know the facts and stay calm because anxiety can flood adrenaline into the body and weaken the immune system, making you more vulnerable to viral infections.
    • Affirm: This too shall pass
  3. You’re Not Alone
    • Know you’re not alone. Call, text, or facetime a friend when you’re feeling scared or alone. Discuss what you’re feeling out loud. Ask them what they do to feel calm and take those practices into consideration. Do something fun together to distract your mind from worries.
    • Affirm: I am understood and supported 
  4. Look outside & inside for what’s right in your world
    • Remind yourself what is good and calm in your life right now. Science has found that gratitude actually strengthens the immune system. Notice when the sun is shining, listen to the raindrops, doing something you enjoy, notice a positive feeling. Express gratitude for some of the things we most often take for granted. 
    • Affirm: My body is healthy, strong and vibrant. I am grateful for…. And list 5 new things you’re grateful for every day
  5. Stay Close to those you love
    • Although it’s important to distant yourself in public from others, it’s still okay and important to stay close with your family. Give your Mom, Dad, sibling a hug or cuddle your pet. Did you know that hugs actually strengthen the immune system? Hugs help stimulate the body’s production of white blood cells that fight off diseases. 
    • Affirm: I am loving and loved
Children's Books, Healthy Living, Kids, Parenting

Love Your Body: A Self Love Book for Girls

Erin Sluka

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Love Your Body

Love Your Body: Your body can do amazing things…  is a self love book every girl needs to read! Release date for this book is March 3, 2020. This is new and for today’s girls as they grow into their changing bodies with age.

The author, Jessica Sanders is an activist and social worker who wants to help teach girls as young as 8 years old to love their bodies.

love your body - girls

This book is targeted at girls aged 8+, as well as parents, teachers, and health professionals with the aim of preventing negative body image and related issues in girls and women by teaching them to see their bodies as incredible instruments rather than as objects. It is the first children’s book that depicts “imperfections” in its illustrations, showing stretch marks and cellulite, erasing the shame associated with them.

This book is available on Amazon.