Team Carnival asks: what's your nail care ritual?

Just joined a blog called Team Carnival which had an interesting concept that not just promotes your site and gain backlinks but also lets other bloggers know the person behind the blog. Basically, there's a topic every week that members of this blog carnival would post about in their own blogs. The host for the week will then collate all these entries and put them (and their links) in the host blog. All members are encouraged to be a host for any given week, and they could also tell what topic to post about.

If you're an active blogger and would like to get your blog known to the world, Team Carnival is the place to be.

Anyways, for this week, host Shoutingwind tells us to tell others about nail care. Er, yeah. So let me just say: I do not have any nail care ritual other than cutting them with a nail cutter every week. Yeah. I don't put anything on it, no nail polish whatsoever, except during my wedding when I had to had a manicure and pedicure (and that was the first time I had a manicure and pedicure). After that, back to the beloved nail cutter.

Which reminds me, I have to buy a nipper...

Other than that, I guess one of the ways I protect my nails (and hands altogether) is wearing gloves when washing the dishes or doing the laundry. The detergent makes nails brittle and more prone to breaking and splitting (makes your hands dry, too). I think drinking water and milk helps strengthening them (mom said nails are part of the bones, though I'm not so sure). And to make sure they don't break, I wear them short. Always.

Believe me, I'd be the last person to tell you what to do with your nails. But I still believe that caring for your nails is important because it's part of your body. And you have to take care of your body and keep it healthy because in the end, that's the most vital treasure you have.

The side effects of Coldease

My officemate felt that she was going to have a cold this morning, so she bought Coldease, the latest cold medicine out in the Philippine market. I've heard a radio commercial of theirs days back and advertisement banners have been plastered in EDSA. It said that you should take Coldease before you actually get a cold (or something to that effect).

Got no photo of it, but it's a soft gel capsule which, according to the label, is made of herbal ingredients. Everyone's switching to natural (just like Lucy Torres... er...), so I guess the makers of this one, Unilab, is just itching to jump into the bandwagon.

Thing is, on the fine print, it's got loads of side effects. To enumerate:

- nausea
- dizziness
- vomiting
- abdominal pain
- tingling sensation of the tongue
- diarrhea
- headache

Skin irritations, like rashes, and other allergic reactions may also occur.

There's a disclaimer, though, that Coldease should not be taken for more than two weeks to minimize side effects. So they may or may not happen to you when you take it.

So far, my officemate hasn't been complaining of anything related to the aforementioned side effects. I guess it just struck me as weird that one herbal medicine could have such a number of side effects.

Maybe I'll ask my doctor about this one first, in case I get a cold.