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How to Donate Plasma: 8 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Donate Plasma: 8 Steps (with Pictures)

Plasma is a yellowish, liquid substance that is part of the approximately 5.5 liters of blood we have in our body. Through a process called plasmapheresis, you can donate part of your plasma to help pharmaceutical companies produce products to prevent and treat diseases such as rubella, measles, hepatitis B, tetanus and rabies.

3 Ways to Take Viagra

3 Ways to Take Viagra

Viagra is used to treat problems with male sexual activity, in particular those related to achieving and maintaining an erection. Learn how to take Viagra correctly to treat erectile dysfunction. Steps Method 1 of 3: Considering whether to take Viagra Step 1.

3 Ways to Know if You Have a Collapsed Vein

3 Ways to Know if You Have a Collapsed Vein

Veins can collapse following frequent or improperly performed intravenous injections. The problem is almost always associated with the use of shoddy equipment and drug abuse. If a needle or injected substance irritates the inner lining of a vein, it can swell, causing it to collapse due to a lack of blood pressure.

3 Ways to Manage Emotional Pain

3 Ways to Manage Emotional Pain

Feeling emotional pain is an unavoidable experience that is part of life's events. Being aware of this, however, doesn't seem to make things easier. Whether it is pain associated with trauma, loss or disappointment, you need to develop a strategy to soothe the pain and know how to manage its difficulties.

How to Naturally Reduce CPK (Creatine Phosphokinase) Levels

How to Naturally Reduce CPK (Creatine Phosphokinase) Levels

Creatine phosphokinase, or creatine kinase (CPK), is an important enzyme found in various organs and structures of the body, including the musculoskeletal system, the brain and the heart. It plays an important role in metabolism, but at high levels it can indicate damage to the brain, heart or muscle system.

How to Pull Breast Milk by Hand: 9 Steps

How to Pull Breast Milk by Hand: 9 Steps

Many women pump their milk by hand to decrease swelling, prevent milk from leaving, and set the milk aside for other times. For some women, hand pumping may be more convenient than using breast pumps. The operation can be done anywhere and without any particular device or tool.

How to Control the Chakras (with Pictures)

How to Control the Chakras (with Pictures)

Our body is divided into seven chakras, or energy centers, each of which reflects a region of the physical body as well as personality traits. Try the following strategies to control the chakras and achieve balance between them, promoting optimal emotional, mental and spiritual health.

How to Help a Little Girl Do a Urine Test

How to Help a Little Girl Do a Urine Test

Urine has been used for years to control our health. Urine testing is often routine for a girl's medical care and for diagnosing illness or ailments. A sterile sample (otherwise known as a "midstream") is required to look for bacteria in the urine.

How to Perform a Gram Stain (with Pictures)

How to Perform a Gram Stain (with Pictures)

Gram staining is a quick procedure used to check for the presence of bacteria in tissue samples and to identify them as gram-positive or gram-negative, based on the chemical and physical properties of their cell walls. Gram staining should always be the first step in diagnosing a bacterial infection.

How to Solve the Problem of the Grumbling Stomach

How to Solve the Problem of the Grumbling Stomach

Having a rumbling stomach can be annoying, especially when you're in the middle of something important. The noises produced are called "borborigmi"; although these are normal sounds, which are generated when the digestive system contracts to push food forward, on certain occasions it is useful to know how to reduce the volume of the process.

How To Take Bee Pollen: 12 Steps

How To Take Bee Pollen: 12 Steps

Natural bee pollen consists of plant pollen that is collected by worker bees, as well as plant nectar and bees' saliva. For commercial use, beekeepers collect pollen directly from inside the hives. This product is used by professionals who use natural remedies to treat health problems such as constipation, cancer, to strengthen the immune system and to help lose weight.

How to Use Super Powers in a Lucid Dream

How to Use Super Powers in a Lucid Dream

Most people are not aware that they are dreaming while doing so, so they experience everything that happens in the dream as if it were real. However, in a lucid dream you can become aware that you are dreaming. After realizing this, you can learn to control the dream course and every aspect of it.

3 Ways to Treat Onycholysis

3 Ways to Treat Onycholysis

Onycholysis is the progressive and painless separation of a nail from its location. The most common cause is trauma, but other factors can cause this phenomenon. Consult your doctor to determine the cause of your problem. If onycholysis occurs as a symptom of another condition, your doctor will help you treat it so your nails can heal.

3 Ways to Prepare for an Endoscopy

3 Ways to Prepare for an Endoscopy

An endoscope is a long, thin and flexible optical tube with micro cameras. This tool is used by the gastroenterologist (a doctor who specializes in treating diseases that affect the digestive system) to be able to do more precise tests, using a procedure called endoscopy.

3 Ways to Clean the Skin Behind the Ears

3 Ways to Clean the Skin Behind the Ears

It might seem superfluous, but the truth is that washing the skin behind the ears is important for proper personal hygiene. First of all, earwax can accumulate and encrust even on the outside of the ears, and the oils produced by the sebaceous glands of the scalp could clog the pores along the hairline.

How to Fantasize About Someone: 10 Steps

How to Fantasize About Someone: 10 Steps

Fantasizing is a healthy and normal way to explore your sexuality and imagine impossible things in real life. Some people feel guilty after indulging in a fantasy. Others worry that they are not creative enough to have a rich imaginary life and may feel dull or monotonous.

How to Improve the Sense of Smell: 12 Steps

How to Improve the Sense of Smell: 12 Steps

The reasons why you would like to improve your sense of smell can be many; for example you may want to improve the sense related to smell, that is, that of taste. Try tasting a food with a stuffy nose! Also you must have a good nose if you want to describe the aromas of wine, coffee, beer and even tea.

3 Ways to Fix a Crooked Nose

3 Ways to Fix a Crooked Nose

Having a crooked nose could make you feel uncomfortable about your appearance, which can affect your social life. If you think it's not as straight as you would like, there are a few things to improve it; in severe cases it is necessary to resort to medical procedures.

How to Use a Thermometer: 9 Steps (with Pictures)

How to Use a Thermometer: 9 Steps (with Pictures)

Fever is an increase in body temperature. Cases of mild fever are often beneficial because they represent the body's defense mechanism against infection. Many pathogenic microorganisms proliferate in narrow temperature ranges, so a low fever prevents them from reproducing.

How to Diagnose Asperger's Syndrome: 15 Steps

How to Diagnose Asperger's Syndrome: 15 Steps

Asperger's syndrome, which in the new Statistical Diagnostic Manual (DSM) is placed in level 1 of the autism spectrum, falls within the Pervasive Developmental Disorders and is characterized by a deficit in communication and socialization skills.