8 out of 10 French people resort to self-medication, the origins of motion sickness and better understand what dengue fever is. Here is the main news of the day.
8 out of 10 French people resort to self-medication
80% of French people resorted to self-medication in 2018, according to an interactive Harris poll. Among them, 85% were women and 75% men. “This practice, which has been stable for several years, is characterized by strong seasonality: 79% in winter, 40% in spring and 49% in summer”. Fortunately, the French resort to self-medication in a reasoned way, only when they need it: 46% use it for a mild health problem, 44% for known situations, mainly at the start of symptoms (43%) or a few days later (39%)… To find out more, click here.
Leaving on vacation: where does travel sickness come from and how to relieve it?
“Mom, my heart hurts.” Here is a sentence that many parents have heard once in their life while they were in a car, plane or boat on the road to vacation, and which generally announces an episode of motion sickness. Also called motion sickness, motion sickness is a mild but very unpleasant condition that often occurs when traveling in a vehicle. Quite common in children from 2 to 12 years old, it becomes less frequent with age but can still appear in adulthood, especially in pregnant women or those subject to severe menstrual pain… We tell you more in our article.
Tiger mosquito: what is dengue fever?
A Mosquito control operation was set up Tuesday around the Bergerac hospital, in the Dordogne, after the hospitalization of a patient with dengue fever. Shortly before, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Regional Health Agency (ARS) said in a press release that 18 confirmed cases of dengue fever had been reported in the PACA region. Health authorities are constantly alerting the general public to dengue fever epidemics, which, with the proliferation of the tiger mosquito in France, are claiming more and more victims. But what is dengue? Transmitted by the female tiger mosquito only, also a vector of chikungunya and Zika, dengue fever (also called “tropical flu”) is a tropical haemorrhagic fever… To read more, click here.
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