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Understanding Immune Changes as We Age

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The old adage “With age comes wisdom” holds true, but it’s also worth noting that ageing can affect our immune system, influencing our health1. When your immune defences are challenged, leading to pain and fever from infections, Panado® is there to offer relief.

How the Ageing Process can Affect the Immune System

The immune system is our body’s primary defence against infections, working diligently to protect us from harmful invaders like viruses and bacteria. As we age, certain elements of this defence mechanism begin to slow down, potentially making us more susceptible to illnesses.1

This weakening of the immune response means that seniors may not only catch infections more easily but might also experience more complications and serious long-term health complications.2

Starting in our 20s, our immune system gradually weakens, a process called immunosenescence. By age 50, we’re more prone to infections and their severe effects.  This weakening also means that common infectious diseases can have more serious consequences as we age.2

Signs of Age-related Pain

While we can’t halt the ageing clock, knowing the signs and symptoms of pain and fever in the elderly can help us navigate its challenges more successfully, ensuring our senior loved ones remain healthy, comfortable, and well-cared for.

For seniors, a fever may be the first sign that something is wrong.3

To check a senior’s temperature, use a digital thermometer in the mouth or under the arm. If it seems off, take several readings over the course of 15 minutes to get a consistent reading.3

Keep in mind that seniors usually have cooler body temperatures, so know what’s normal for them.3

The Power to fight Pain.

Panado® works fast and offers relief of pain and fever. It is conveniently available in tablet4 and capsules or effervescent form, for those who find it more difficult to swallow.

Panado® is trusted9 for pain relief when you need it most and products are available from Baby City, Pick n Pay, Checkers, including Hypers, Shoprite, Clicks, Dis-Chem, and Independent Pharmacies. For more information, visit visit https://panado.co.za/ and join the conversations onFacebook.

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About us

Actually, Home Food and Travel offers a lot more than just reviews of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities.  We also visit great destinations, receive advice from interior designers and stop to smell the roses and taste the coffee.

Our team of journalists are seasoned travels and love visiting the myriad of exciting places around South Africa.  Whether it is off the beaten track or in the heart of the top attractions of the country, we’ll be there,

Home Food and Travel advice on finding the right accommodation

So what is the right accommodation?  Well more often than not, it’s your travel budget that dictates the type of accommodation that you choose. 

Expensive is not always better.  Our team at Home Food and Travel will tell you that they have camped in areas with limited ablutions and had a wonderful holiday.  They have also spent a night in a five star hotel only to be disappointed because their expectations exceeded the experience.

The reason for your travels will also affect your choice.  A business trip requires different amenities to a beach holiday. 

Our articles, reviews and experiences can certainly help you make your decision.

Restaurants with a good mix of service, food and ambiance

To my mind a great restaurant offers three things – excellent service, great food and a wonderful ambiance.  Of these, service is the most important. 

No matter that the food is delicious and the setting delightful, poor service can ruin the occasion.  However, great service combined with mediocre meal and a plane jane restaurant can still be a pleasant night out.

We’ve eaten in restaurants that are really dirty but with incredible food and couldn’t help but give a rave review.  We’ve also hardly noticed what we ate because the setting was just amazing.

However, the best restaurants come with the best of service, food and ambiance.

Spas are the ultimate relaxation aid

How do you know when you have had a great spa experience?  The answer, of course, is when you doze off on the treatment table. 

Well that’s our theory anyway.  It also doesn’t take a grand location with enormous facilities for a spa to be really good

A small, personal spa that is owner run can result in the best massage you have ever experienced.  However, the grand spas in five star hotels offer unsurpassed facilities in an environment that just makes the stress in your shoulders and neck melt away before you even finish checking in.

Adventure!

You don’t have to be an adrenaline junky to enjoy an exciting experience.  In fact, what are commonly termed adventure activities usually have incredibly high safety standards and unblemished safety records.

Ziplining, bungy jumping and shark cage diving are all very safe.  It’s just that our mind tells us we are craaazzzzyyyy to be doing this.

On the road to great places of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities

If you’re driving, be safe and make use of all the wonderful farm stalls that populate South Africa’s open roads.

If you overhear somebody asking a lot of questions or see someone taking photos of empty bedrooms chances are it’s one of our Home Food and Travel team members.

We’re out looking or those great places of accommodation, restaurants, spas and adventure activities.

See you on the road!

 

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