HPV is an extremely common and prevalent virus. It’s estimated that between 30% to 40% of people have this virus. It can be easily transferred via open wounds from one person to the other and lay dormant with no symptoms for years.

The HPV virus lives underneath your skin and feeds on the nutrients carried via your bloodstream. In other words, your body’s natural nutrition delivery system is actually being used to keep the virus alive! Because of this, the virus can basically live forever.

There is no cure for the HPV virus. All you can do is get the actual wart off, but the virus itself remains.

Should You Remove the Wart?

It’s important to note that warts do disappear on their own. There’s no medical purpose to removing the warts. The only thing removing the wart does is many you look better, faster.

It’s a tradeoff of pain to healing speed. You can get rid of the wart faster if you actively take action, but it’ll be a little painful. Alternatively, you can just wait for it to heal on its own, which is less painful but takes longer.

What can you do if you want to get rid of the wart?

Crushed Garlic and Band-Aid

Take a clove of garlic and crush it. Mince it up into tiny pieces, then rub the garlic into the wart. Use a Band-Aid to strap the garlic into place over the warts. Make sure you’re not getting any garlic over your healthy skin.

Leave this in for 24 hours, then replace it freshly minced garlic. This will very quickly cause your wart to blister up, then pop and disappear.

Fine Lemon Peels and Band-Aid

You can also use finely grated lemon peels to do the same thing. Take an unpeeled lemon and grate it against a fine grater.

Take the almost powdery lemon zest and press it against the wart. Use a Band-Aid to hold the lemon peel in place.

This method takes a little longer than garlic, but is a little less painful and less gruesome. The lemons won’t cause blistering; they’ll just slowly eat away at the wart until it’s gone.

Duct Tape

You can also get rid of warts using just duct tape. Simply wrap the warts in duct tape tightly and leave it wrapped for a week.

This deprives the warts of oxygen, which makes it harder for them to survive. The extreme irritation that the duct tape causes also gets your body’s natural immune system into action. Your immune system will attack the warts from the inside.

By the time you remove the duct tape, the warts will be dead and will fall off naturally.

That’s not all. Groundhogs make holds that are big enough for pets and horses to step into. When a pet steps into a hole at a fast speed, they can end up snapping their legs or twisting a ligament, causing extreme pain.

Finally, the most common complaint is that groundhogs can pretty much destroy a garden. The roots of your plants don’t stand a chance against the groundhogs’ relentless digging.

So how do you get rid of groundhogs?

The Ammonia Soaked Rag

Walk around your property and look for every groundhog hole that you can find. Do this a few times to try and catch as many of them as you can. Fan out of your property to see if there are holes that are just outside your property.

Groundhogs are very clever about their burrows. When they burrow, they don’t just dig an entrance, but they also dig emergency exits. Often time’s several of their tunnels are connected, giving them an expressway to travel with.

Try and identify as many openings to their burrows as you can.

Go to your local department store and buy a bunch of rags. Also, buy a big jug of ammonia.

Soak these rags in ammonia. Make sure to wear very sturdy gloves when handling ammonia and do it outdoors to avoid getting too much of the fumes inhaled.

Once you’ve soaked the rags, simply stuff them down the groundhog’s burrow holes. Run around your property and plug up all the holes you can find with your ammonia soaked rags as fast as you can.

The noxious fumes from the ammonia will quickly kill the groundhogs in their burrows.

Scare Them Away With Fox Urine Pellets

Another option is to try and scare away these groundhogs with fox urine pellets. You can buy these at your local hardware store or pet store.

Foxes are natural predators of groundhogs and groundhogs can easily recognize their scents. If groundhogs believe that foxes have marked the area as their territory, they’ll often run the other direction.

Fox urine pellets are designed to emit a scent that emulates that of fox urine. When groundhogs smell these pellets, they’ll leave your property of their own accord.

Simply sprinkle these pellets all over your property. Make sure to sprinkle the areas that groundhogs tend to frequent and any areas where you’ve noticed openings to groundhog burrows.

Trapping Groundhogs

Finally, you can place traps that are designed to either capture or kill groundhogs.

Make sure you check with your local authorities as to the legality of using these traps before employing them. In many states, specific kinds of traps are illegal.

Also, if you’re using above ground lethal traps, make sure there are no pets around. Because groundhogs are rather big creatures, the traps that could harm them could also harm dogs, cats and other pets.

These are some of the most common ways of getting rid of groundhogs. Keep in mind that if it’s winter time and groundhogs are gone, that doesn’t mean you’ve gotten rid of them – They could have just gone into hibernation. If you get rid of them during summer, then you can be sure they’re gone for good.

How do you deal with bats in your home safely?

Never, Ever Attack a Bat

Attacking a bat is one of the most dangerous things you could do if you have bats in your house. There are two reasons for this.

First, attacking the bat can provoke it to attack you. If you get bitten by a bat, you have a strong chance of contracting rabies if the bat had it.

Second, if you actually succeed in hitting the bat, rabies can be transferred through the air. In other words, if you take a baseball bat at manage to whack a bat in the head, the blood that sprays out can be infected.

This airborne rabies virus can be even more dangerous than a bite, because it can infect the whole household rather than just one person.

The first and most important rule of dealing with bats is to never attack them directly.

What to Do if You Physically Contact a Bat

If you come in physical contact with a bat, you should immediately get yourself tested for rabies.

While the chances of you actually contracting the disease is relatively small, it’s important to remember that you’re dealing with a fatal disease.

Rabies is not something to be fooled around with or taken lightly. The animals might be small, but one bite or scratch is all it takes to kill.

What Equipment to Buy

If you’re going to try and get rid of the bats on your own, what equipment should you start out with?

First, you should start out with basic protective gear. You’ll want to have thick gloves, thick enough that bats can’t bite through the gloves and contact your fingers.

You should also have clothing that can protect your enter body, including your head and your face. Usually that means some sort of goggles, as well as a scarf to cover your nose and mouth.

You’ll want to stock up on building materials. You should have wooden planks to help board up any holes that bats are using to get in and out of the house. You should also have instant glue or instant cement to help seal up any smaller holes that you come across.

Finally, purchase a couple of one-way bat doors. These are doors that bats can get out of, but can’t get back in through.

Getting Rid of the Bats

Start by setting up a couple of the one-way bat doors in your attic or in the rooms where you suspect there are bats.

Examine the room for any holes. Any hole that’s more than the size of a quarter needs to be boarded up or glued shut. The only way out of the room should be through the new one way bat door.

Every day or two, the bats will leave in droves to go hunting together. If you did a good job of securing your room, that’ll be the end of your bat problem. One they’ve all left, they won’t be able to get back in and will find somewhere else to go.

Remember to check the area they left for any dead bats. Dead bats can rot, causing an unbearable stench. They can also carry the rabies disease.

When Should You Call Animal Control?

If at any point you believe you’re at risk of contacting a bat, err on the side of caution and get professional help.

Getting professionals to deal with the bats can be much more costly than doing it yourself. However, it’s much better than the alternative of putting yourself or your family in the way of a potentially fatal disease.

Once you’re sure that you’re dealing with bats, seriously consider calling animal control or a professional bat removal company.

Getting rid of body acne can take anywhere between a couple of weeks to a couple of months. Once you start the process, you should start noticing a decrease in acne within a week or so.

Here’s how to get rid of body acne.

Use Anti-Bacterial Soap

Buy some anti-bacterial soap and use it daily, every time you shower.

Acne is caused by a buildup of bacteria, dirt and oil in the pores of the skin. When the pores get backed up, more bacteria grows, until white blood cells have to come and attack the bacteria. Acne is a result of the white blood cells turning into pus near those pores.

By using anti-bacterial soap, you’ll be able to wipe out the bacteria before your white blood cells have to step in.

Eliminate Junk Foods

Another way to get rid of body acne is to change your body from the inside out. Improving your diet can have a major impact. First of all, by reducing the oiliness and acidity of the food you consume, you can reduce the amount of oil your skin produces. Also, parasites in the bloodstream thrive in more acidic environments. By reducing the acidity of your diet, you can effectively curb bacteria growth and reduce acne.

Eliminate all junk foods from your diet. Eliminate sodas, eliminate fried foods and eliminate fast foods. These are the main culprits of high acidity and can greatly contribute to acne outbreaks.

Replace these foods with whole foods, fruits, vegetables and organic foods.

Reduce Your Stress Levels

The more stressed you are, the more oil your body produces, which in turn increases the likelihood of acne outbreaks.

Try to take on one or two new hobbies. These should preferably be physical hobbies, or at least hobbies that don’t cause stress. For example, playing chess wouldn’t be a great choice because it’s mentally taxing rather than relaxing. On the other hand, reading on the beach would be a great de-stressing hobby.

Wear Fabrics That Breathe

That will help your body dissipate heat, evaporate sweat and avoid trapping oil or bacteria against your skin.

If you don’t have any light or breathable clothing yet, now might be the time to renew your wardrobe.

Getting rid of body acne involves approaching the issue from both the inside and the outside. Clean your body thoroughly using anti-bacterial soap, change your diet, reduce your stress and wear clothing that facilitates the evaporation of sweat and oil.

By the time you feel itchy on your scalp, that already means you’ve had lice for some time. Most people don’t feel the itchiness right when they get lice.

Instead, it takes a few weeks. That’s because the itchiness actually comes from a buildup of lice saliva. One or two bites doesn’t cause an itchy reaction, you really need quite a bit of saliva buildup. When lice feeds on your scalp, it leaves a saliva residue. That’s what causes the itching.

So by the time you feel the lice itch, you’ve already given the lice plenty of time to multiply. So, what can you do and how can you get rid of head lice?

Head Lice Shampoos: Rid and Nix

Rid and Nix are two of the most common shampoo treatments used for head lice. Unfortunately, on their own they won’t get the job done.

You can’t just wash your child’s hair with a shampoo and be done with the job. In fact, getting rid of lice is more of a 2 to 4 week ordeal.

If you use a shampoo, you’ll still probably want to combine it with the conditioner and comb approach detailed below. The shampoo may kill most of the lice, but it won’t get all of them.

You’ll have to use multiple applications of the shampoo to get real results. However, lice can and do actually develop a resistance to these chemicals after they’ve been used a few times.

The Most Effective Method

The most effective method of getting rid of head lice is also the most time consuming.

Start by purchasing a great lice comb. Then apply a layer of conditioner on your hair and just pick the lice out, one by one. It’s not uncommon to pick out over 200 lice or nits in one sitting. Try and get every single lice or nit out every time.

This isn’t something you can do to yourself; instead it’s something that should be done by a friend or family member.

Wash your pillow case and your pillow in hot water.

Repeat this process of using a lice comb and conditioner and washing your pillows every 2 days. Repeat this for 2 to 4 weeks.

Unfortunately, this manual and extremely time consuming method is the only true time and tested method for getting rid of lice. Other methods are less time consuming, but just don’t get the job done completely.

You might be able to eliminate most of the lice with a lice shampoo and get rid of the itch for a few weeks. But the lice will grow back and when they do the shampoo will be less effective the next time.

Going through this time consuming process takes a lot of effort, but you can be sure that it works.

How can you get rid of dark circles?

Get 7 to 9 Hours of Sleep

Getting enough sleep is tantamount when it comes to improving your facial complexion. Though a myriad of different factors from diet to genetics can influence dark circles, the main cause is lack of sleep.

If you’re not getting your full dose of sleep every single night, that’s the #1 thing you should address. Try to get as much sleep as you can, preferably 7 to 9 hours of sleep a night.

Exercise Regularly to Improve Sleep and Circulation

Try going for a 20 minute run every day. This does two things.

First, if you exercise, you’ll fall asleep easier. Your muscles will be more relaxed and various studies show that people who exercise struggle less with insomnia.

Second, it helps get the blood flowing more. As circulation throughout your body improves, it’ll also improve the circulation near your eyes and move some of the sagginess away.

Cut Alcohol, Drugs & Cigarettes

This trio can really wreck havoc on your facial complexion. Not only do they introduce unhealthy elements into your body that work against you, but they also detract from a healthy night’s sleep.

Research has shown that each of these substances can have a negative impact on sleep, which in turn will have a negative impact on your dark circles.

You don’t have to cut it out all at once, but make it a point to start cutting back if you want to get rid of dark circles.

Take On a Relaxing Activity

Take on an activity that helps you relax. Preferably an activity that can be done near bed time to help you wind down from a stressful day.

For example, you could get in the habit of taking a relaxing bath towards the end of the day, every day.

Or you could get in the habit of slowly sipping a glass of delicious orange juice while reading a book for 20 minutes every night.

Whatever it is for you, try to find an activity that’ll help you relax, get more sleep and reduce stress.

Getting rid of dark circles doesn’t happen overnight. You need to help restore your body’s vitamin base and improve your overall health before your dark circles will disappear.

However, if you’re experiencing leg cramps alongside with other health symptoms, such as muscle contractions or involuntary movements in other parts of the body, then consult a doctor. Together, these symptoms could indicate more serious health or neurological issues.

So how can you get rid of leg cramps?

Stop Exercising Immediately

If you get a leg cramp while exercising, stop right away.

Leg cramps during exercise is caused by muscle fatigue and the buildup of acids in the muscle tissue. The more you exercise, the worse the cramps will get.

You can stop exercising for the rest of the day, or you can stop exercising only for a short period of time. If you get back into exercising the same day, it’s likely that you’ll experience cramps again.

Give Yourself a Massage

If yourself a massage. This will help disperse acid buildup in the muscles, as well as get the blood flowing better. It’ll also help the tissues and muscles relax.

Start at the top of your legs. Using your thumbs, apply pressure to the area in and around the cramp. Squeeze your way down your legs. Repeat this motion.

You can also try using your entire hand to squeeze the cramped area. Massage and kneed the muscle and pay attention to what feels good. Your body has a very good sense of what is and isn’t good for it, so follow your instincts when giving yourself a massage.

Stretch Before and After Exercise

Another way to get rid of leg cramps is to stretch both before and after exercise.

Stretching before exercise gets your muscles primed and ready for the workout. If you don’t stretch first, your body can go into the exercise “cold.” This can cause your muscles to contract and increase the chances of cramps.

Stretching after exercising helps you disperse the acid buildup in your muscles. It helps take muscles that had tensed up during exercise and get them to relax again.

If you exercise but get leg cramps at night rather than after exercising, doing your stretches can make a big difference.

Take Supplements or Medications Before Bed

If you’re experiencing leg cramps in the middle of the night, try taking supplements or medications.

Leg cramps can be caused by a deficiency of electrolytes or a deficiency of calcium. Before bed, try taking an electrolyte supplement and a calcium supplement. For a lot of people, just taking these supplements is enough to completely rid them of leg cramps.

You can also try one of the many leg cramp over the counter drugs on the market. Some of these work for a lot of people, but because leg cramps can be caused by so many different things, not every drug will have the same effectiveness for everyone. You may have to try several different brands before finding one that works for you.

Drink More Water

Dehydration is yet another common reason for leg cramps. If you’re not getting enough water, your muscles will get tired more easily. Lack of water can also interfere with the natural functioning of your muscles.

Drink at least 8 cups of water every day. If you’re not drinking enough water and you’re getting leg cramps, try guzzling water for a few days to see if it makes a difference.

The “Cold Then Hot” Method

One way to give yourself instantaneous relief is to use the “cold hot” method for relieving leg cramps.

Buy two large buckets or tubs. Freeze some ice in your freezer.

Take one bucket and fill it with cold water. Put some ice in the bucket if your faucet’s cold water isn’t really very cold.

In the other bucket, pour some hot water, ideally hot enough that it’s just below “too hot.” If you don’t have a heating system that can get water that hot, try mixing your faucet water with water from an electric kettle.

Dip your legs into the ice cold water for 20 to 30 seconds, then switch your legs to the hot water. Soak until your muscles feel more relaxed, then switch back to the cold water and rinse and repeat.

This change in temperatures will very quickly get your muscles to relax. The cold water will constrict your veins, then the hot water will cause them to expand beyond their normal state, allowing more blood to flow to the cramped muscles.

Using these methods, you should be able to get rid of leg cramps, whether they’re caused by exercise or arise during sleep.

How can you get rid of age spots? Unfortunately, there aren’t many home-based products you can use or dietary changes you can make to get rid of age spots. The most effective procedures are dermatological procedures that can be quite costly.

Here are the most common options available today.

Dermatological Options

Chemical peels. Chemical peels are one of the more common and more affordable options. They use a mild chemical acid to dissolve the uppermost layer of your skin. The procedure isn’t painful at all.

Once the initial layer of skin is peeled off, your age spots will be significantly faded or completely gone. You may need to do multiple treatments to see real effects.

Dermabrasion. This works by using an extremely fast rotating brush to scrape off the upper layer of your skin. It works very similarly to the way chemical peels work. By removing the uppermost layer of the skin, you can cosmetically remove the age spots.

Dermabrasion needs multiple applications before you’ll see significant results. It must be administered by a qualified dermatologist.

Laser treatments are one of the least intrusive treatments available. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the most costly treatments possible. If money is not an obstacle for you and you just want the healthiest and most effective method of getting rid of age spots, look into getting laser treatments.

Liquid nitrogen treatment is another possible way to get rid of age spots. This method can be very destructive to skin cells however, so carefully weigh the pros and cons before you get this treatment.

Possible Home Based Treatments

If you don’t want to go to a dermatologist, there are a couple different things you can try at home.

First, you can try a mild at-home version of a chemical peel. Get a juicer and a bag full of lemons. Once a day, squeeze out the juice from the lemons and apply it directly to your skin. Leave it to soak for a while.

Lemons are mildly acidic, just like chemical peels. They can rub off the upper layer of your skin and help get rid of age spots.

Another cure you can administer at home is Hydroquinone, an over the counter drug catered to treating age spots. Some very prominent doctors believe Hydroquinone causes cancer, while many others believe it to be completely safe. Use it sparingly and only as a last resort.

These are some of the possible medical and home based cures for age spots. Age spots might not be appealing to look at, but they don’t pose any health dangers. So take your time with experimenting with various cures to find the ones that work best for you.

So how can you get rid of puffy eyes?

Check for Allergens

One of the most common reasons for puffy eyes is allergic reactions. If you’re allergic to something in the air, your body may be reacting by puffing up the eyes.

The best way to check for this is to have your doctor administer an allergy test. If you discover an allergen that you weren’t aware of, work to get it out of your surroundings.

For example, if you discover that you’re allergic to pollens, get an air purifier. If you discover that you’re allergic to peanut butter, stop eating peanut butter.

Get More Sleep

Lack of sleep can be another common cause for baggy eyes. Try to get at least 8 hours of sleep each and every night.

Getting exercise during the day can help with being able to sleep at night. Exercise helps tire out the muscles, which makes sleep come easier.

If you’re stressed at night and spend a lot of time tossing and turning, try taking a warm bath before going to bed.

If you’re still having trouble sleeping, try using progressive relaxation techniques to help put yourself to bed. Mentally walk yourself through every one of your body’s muscles, telling them to relax. Work from the top of your head all the way to your toes and back until you’re asleep.

Avoid Salt and Sodium

Sodium is another common cause for saggy eyes. When the body’s sodium levels get too high, the body compensates by holding more water in the body. This water is stored in different places in the body, depending on where your genetic disposition for water retention is.

One place that the body might hold some water is the underside of the eyes. This can cause the underside of your eyes to get distended, giving you that puffy eyed look.

Use less salt in your everyday meals. Go to restaurants less often, as restaurants often use far too much salt in their cooking. Avoid pre-packaged foods like canned soups and microwaved dinners, which are also very high in sodium.

Over the Counter Cosmetics

Instead of changing your health preferences, you can also get rid of puffy eyes simply by using cosmetic products. There are two different ways to do this.

First, you can use a skin tightening cream. Use this around the area that’s puffy to cause the skin to become tighter. That will pull the extra puffiness away and give your face a healthy young look again.

Alternatively, you can use concealers to lessen the shadows of the puffiness and blend the puffiness into the rest of your eyes. This won’t get rid of the puffiness, but makes it look a lot better.

Temporary Surgery

Finally, you can get rid of puffy eyes by using a temporary surgery that lasts 6 to 9 months.

A doctor will inject a filler substance into the empty cavity in your puffy eyes. That will cause it to fill up slightly, making the puffiness inconspicuous or completely invisible.

These are a few different ways you can cure puffy eyes. If you want to get rid of puffy eyes once and for all, it’s best to take a holistic approach rather than a cosmetic or surgical one.

If you follow these steps regularly, your breath will be spick and spam clean. In fact, your breath can smell so good that you’re actually proud of it.

Here’s how to get rid of bad breath.

Use Mouthwash

Next to flossing, mouth washing is one of the most commonly skipped steps of dental hygiene. A lot of people simply don’t like the taste of mouthwash.

The fact is however, there are many places that your toothbrush and your floss just can’t reach. Bacteria can grow on the back of your tongue, in your gums and in the cracks and crevices of your mouth.

Mouthwash will help you get to all of these bacteria and get rid of them all at once.

Brush Your Teeth Three Times a Day

Brushing your teeth regularly is the crux of strong and healthy teeth. Mouth wash only gets the bacteria that live on the surface layer of plaque. Brushing your teeth allows you to “deep clean” your teeth and your gums.

Make sure that when you brush, you brush both the front and the backs of your teeth. Make sure you get the front area of the teeth, as well as all the way back in the sides to your wisdom teeth.

Brush both your teeth and your gums. Brushing your gums might feel painful at first and there may even be a little bit of bleeding. That’s because gums that aren’t brushed can be very fragile. Once you’ve been brushing your gums for a few weeks, the bleeding will stop and your overall gum and dental health will be much healthier.

Buy a Tongue Scraper

Much of bad break isn’t actually caused by bacteria that live on your teeth. Instead, it’s caused by the bacteria that live in the back of your mouth, on your tongue.

Brushing your tongue isn’t enough to get rid of these bacteria. Instead, to reach those elusive bacteria, you need to purchase a tongue scraper.

A tongue scraper works exactly as the name suggests. Just put the scraper on the back of your tongue and pull it towards the front.

You’ll likely see a white slimy substance scraped off the back of your tongue. Repeat this scraping motion until nothing comes off your tongue.

Drink Water, Avoid Alcohol & Caffeine

One common reason for bad breath is dehydration.

The body’s main dental bacteria removal device isn’t teeth brushing. After all, humans didn’t evolve with a toothbrush in their hand.

The body’s main method of getting rid of bacteria is actually through saliva. The body naturally washes away a lot of bacteria just by producing water in the mouth.

However, if your body is dehydrated, your mouth can dry up, which will prevent this natural anti-bad-breath mechanism from kicking into gear.

To keep this from happening, drink a lot of water. At least eight glasses a day. Also, avoid alcohol and avoid caffeine in your everyday life. It’s okay to drink alcohol or coffee every once in a while, but don’t make it a habit, as both beverages can seriously dehydrate the body.

These are some of the easiest ways to get rid of bad breath. Finally, remember to brush your teeth after eating any strong smelling meal. For example, if you eat something with garlic or onions in it, you probably want to brush your teeth right after eating the meal to prevent you from carrying those foods on your breath.