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Sep 10, 2024 | thehealthy.com | Jackie Duda |Costco Connection

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that requires you act fast. You can’t just “sleep on it,” like I almost did, back when I didn’t even know what sepsis was. Today, I feel fortunate I’m here to tell about it. The Sepsis Alliance is a national patient advocacy organization that defines sepsis as “your body’s overactive and toxic response to an infection … [when] for reasons researchers don’t understand, sometimes the immune system stops fighting the ‘invaders,’ and begins to turn on itself.

Aug 12, 2024 | thehealthy.com | Jackie Duda |Costco Connection

A reporter learned that a medical pedicure can be next-level health care for some conditions—or for anyone who favors the ultimate hygiene. I swim every day and walk for miles. Lately, my feet have been showing and feeling signs of chlorine-exposed, pavement-pounding mistreatment: Splits, dryness, painful toenails and burning soles, all aggravated by the fact I have P.O.T.S. and hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome.