There are many factors that affect our sleep but there are ways for us to get better sleep at night Many people in urban cities are getting more stressed up than ever with the ever-escalating cost of living where we have to stretch our dollar further and further trying to make ends meet. With […]
Infections in Nursing Homes
The rate of morbidity among the elderly in nursing homes are becoming more worrisome. The concept of a shared working space allows many of its users to save cost and add convenience with the sharing of equipment and utilities among other things. The arrangements of nursing homes are quite similar with the co-living of many […]
Dealing with Haze in Malaysia
Breathing is not a choice, but breathing clean air especially in this hazy season is. Often, we take things for granted in our lives, we have expectations of the things around us. In Malaysia we are protected from major natural disasters and blessed with good weather mostly all year round. But there is one season […]
Having Safer and Healthier Road Trips
With good planning, we can always ensure that our road trips are safer and healthier Going on road trips are fun because it allows us the freedom to plan when to leave, where to go, making little de tours as and when we desire. With the flexibility to adapt and improvise throughout road trips, we […]
The Major Concerns of Living with Pets
There are some serious considerations that need to be thought out before living with pets. Pets bring abundance of joy into our lives as we care for them and they reciprocate in their owns ways. In modern society, there are many restrictions imposed on us if we were to live in a high-rise building […]
Ways to Save on Home Appliances
Purchasing and maintaining home appliances can be expensive, let’s learn to cut down the cost. Be it a new house or an old one, living in one comes with heavy responsibilities sometimes heavier than the weight of the many electronic devices required to furnish it. Furniture and fixtures are probably the first things we need […]
Having a Healthy Work-Life Balance
Don’t work too hard towards a better life while forgetting to live. Modern society is very often associated with high levels of stress whereby every social group is affected by it. Financial stress is an issue that many working adults face, they are finding it increasingly difficult to meet the standard of living they expect […]
Is City Living an Urban Nightmare?
Big city living is something we work hard for, but it also comes with a whole lot of worries. We have heard of the Town Mouse and Country Mouse story whereby these two cousins live totally different lives, one of lavish feasts but in constant fear while the other of a more simple but assuring […]
Travelling with Healthier Air
Travelling has become less healthy when we breathe in high amounts of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) that surround us in unfamiliar places but there are ways to improve the situation. Overseas travelling or outstation trips are often unavoidable for many working adults. Many of us travel multiple times a years be it for business or […]
New Home Furnishing with Better Priorities
Home furnishing can troublesome and expensive, but with better priorities we are able to plan our spending more wisely. Like all new home owners, we are excited to receive the keys to the property and we probably have so much in mind on what should be done to beautify and make it more conducive for […]
Controlling the Symptoms of Asthma
Asthma is an inflammatory disease which causes a person’s airway to swell and produce mucus making breathing difficult. This long term condition cannot be cured but there are ways it can be controlled, we find out more here. Over 300 million people in the world presently suffer from asthma. Whether it’s severe or minor, this […]
Balik Kampung the Healthier Way
It’s going to be a long drive back to the hometown again, but let’s have a healthier drive this Hari Raya. Apply for three days of leave and you’ll get nine days off this Raya as it falls on a Wednesday (5 June 2019) and Thursday being a public holiday as well. This gives us […]
Health: A Mother’s Day Gift
Mother’s Day is just around the corner and finding the perfect meaningful gift can be difficult, here let’s find a practical gift for the superhero in our lives. Honouring all the mothers in their sacrifices for their families, Mother’s Day has been recognised as a public holiday in the United States since the early 20th […]
How does Active Oxygen benefit our daily lives?
Active Oxygen is found in abundance in nature and it has many health benefits that we have discovered. Here we explore more insights about this interesting and inexpensive wonder. Ozone or Active Oxygen is a natural element that is created through plant photosynthesis, the cascading of moving water, the UV rays from the sun, and […]
What are volatile organic compounds (VOCs)?
These colorless and odorless volatile organic compounds in the air could be killing us slowly without us even realizing it. We are surrounded by many chemicals and substances daily and many of which we come into contact with often without realizing it. Among them are volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that are organic chemicals with a […]
Selecting the Right Air Treatment System for your Home
Finding the perfect air purification and air sterilization system for a healthier home. Home is where the heart is and it is the place where we care about the most in the world. Because here is where we are most comfortable, most secure, and have a sense of belonging among many other things. A home […]
Which is the ideal air treatment system for your home?
Choosing the right Air+Surface Sterilizer can truly improve and purify the air in your home and even help to reduce sinus allergies. If you are searching for the ideal air treatment system to safeguard the health of you and your family, you would probably have noticed many products promoting clean air and more. You would […]
Staying Healthy on the Go
Staying healthy on the go is something very important but many people conveniently forget to remember. We are the kings of our castles and in that luxury no matter how big or small our homes are, we are privileged to be protected from harm’s way. In a controlled environment especially one where we call home, […]
Ways to Make Your Drive More Enjoyable
Whether we buy a car for its performance or reliability, our cars are our pride and joy. In modern times, having a car has become more of a necessity than a luxury and quite often after a hard day’s work, we look forward to driving home in the comfort of our cars while listening to […]
Living a Healthier 2019
We’ve now entered into 2019 and most of us welcomed the new year with many hopes and aspirations. Earning a promotion, receiving an increment, moving into a more comfortable home, having a new pet, and traveling to new places may be among the list of things we have in store for the year. But what […]
Best Valentine’s Gift for Him or Her
Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and here we are thinking of what we can gift our significant other. Well, this celebration among lovers can sometimes get us scratching our heads looking for the perfect gift. If you have gone past the stage of buying chocolates and teddy bears for your lover, you may […]
Spring Cleaning the Natural and Effective Way
Are you like the most us who find our homes cluttered with all kinds of unwanted or unused items? Been meaning to spring clean your home to tidy up and make space for other things but just don’t know where to begin because you’re afraid of opening a can of worms? We’ve all been there. […]
Why Scented Candles Can Wreck Your Health
Scented Candles Can Ruin Your Health Today we will share a little known life fact that can help you on your path to healthier living. First, see if you know that answer to the following question: Which of the following can ruin your health? Exhaust fumes from a truck Second hand cigarette smoke Scented […]
Limitations of Air Filters and Purifiers
Limitations of Air Filters and Purifiers Investing in air cleaning devices such as air filters or air purifiers may seem like a really smart way to improve the air we breathe, and by doing so protect and improve our overall health. After all, in our modern and urban lifestyles, we are constantly being surrounded and […]
How To Get Rid of Mould In Your Home
Now You Can Get Rid of Mould Forever Here in the South East Asian tropics, mould is a very familiar household foe. It can sometimes feel like an evil spirit, lurking in dark corners, coming back over and over again to haunt us no matter what we do to exorcise it. But there is good […]
Bad Odours-How to Remove it From Car
How To Remove Bad Odours From Your Car Let’s be honest, we have all had that experience of getting into our cars and thinking, ugh, it smells in here.What to do about bad odours from car can be tricky sometimes – perhaps mostly because bad car smells seem to just STAY forever. The best place […]
Truth About Air Filters and Air Purifiers
What Air Filter and Purifier Companies Don’t Want You To Know Congratulations! You recognize the importance of breathing clean air. And now you’re thinking about getting an air filter or air purifier. Your journey to better health is a very important one, so allow us to share with you here some important facts about air […]
How To Cure Sinusitis
How To Cure Sinusitis Sniffling. Runny. Sneezy. Itchy. Blocked. If you live with one of these types of noses, then you are suffering from a very common condition that affects millions of people: Sinusitis (also known as rhinitis or rhinosinusitis). And how to cure sinusitis is often what is on the minds of these millions […]
How To Get Rid of Pet Smells
How To Get Rid of Pet Smells We all love our pets to the moon and back. We get so much joy from them. But, one thing we shouldn’t be getting a lot of is their smell. It’s easy to become insensitive to their smells when we enjoy them so much, but a house that […]
Why Scents Cannot Remove Bad Smells
Why Scents Cannot Remove Bad Smells A popular solution many businesses turn to when confronted with bad odour issues is the use of air fresheners and scents. Scents may seem to make sense. Many industries must immediately think about the pleasure, comfort and satisfaction of their customers and turn to fragrances to push foul smells […]
Sterilising The Air And Surfaces Naturally
Sterilising The Air And Surfaces Naturally THE saying, ‘Prevention is better than cure’ is often ignored. Many people don’t realise that it is more difficult to treat a disease rather than take the proper preventive steps. Many realise this too late, and are forced to spend time and money treating illnesses which could have been […]
What Kind of Air Cleaner Are Available in the Market?
Understanding what various air cleaner in the market today do and don’t do will help you make the right investment. Air Filters High-efficiency particulate air filters (HEPA filters) tend to be top of mind and are considered the golden standard for their ability to capture the highest range of pollutants in the air. What air […]
Why Air Filters/Purifiers Are Not Effective Odor Removal
Air Filters and Purifiers Are Not Effective Odor Removal Constantly having to combat bad odors is often the source of big headaches in many industries. F&B businesses battle remnant food smells that cling to the air and furniture, or kitchen smells leaking into customer seating areas. Bars and lounges have to contend with cigarette and cigar smells […]
Protect your child from HFMD
What is HFMD? Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD) is caused by a group of viruses that belongs to the Enterovirus genus. There are several types of enterovirus which can cause HFMD. In Southeast Asia, the most common found virus is Enterovirus 17. How does HFMD spread? Physical contact such as hugging, sharing utensils, saliva, […]
Medklinn VS Air Freshener
Air Freshener vs Medklinn Which would you guess is worse for your health? (A) Standing in the middle of heavy traffic, breathing in the fumes, or (B) Standing in your living room, breathing in an air freshener? If you have correctly guessed (B), good for you – you are obviously a step ahead in the health […]
Medklinn Autoplus VS Car Air Purifier
Car Air Purifier vs Medklinn Autoplus – What’s the difference? Regardless of how well or how often we take care of our cars, the reality is that they are, more often than not, little capsules of pollutants driving around on 4 wheels. “Excuse me! My car is spotless!” you may think. And perhaps indeed it is. But […]
Medklinn VS Ionizer
Ionizer vs Medklinn – What’s the difference? Negative ion generating ionizers have become quite prevalent in the marketplace as a household appliance designed to clean and refresh the air in our living spaces. However, if you are interested in investing in a tool that can actually sterilize not only the air you breathe but the surfaces you […]
3 Golden Rules in Using Medklinn Air+Surface Sterilizers
Rule 1: Turn it on 24/7. It’s designed to be “always-on”. No worries, it uses less than 6.5 watts/hour. Rule 2: Shut all doors and windows. Treat it like your “fresh-air” producer. You don’t want you “fresh-air” to escape. Rule 3: No air fresheners and fragrances. Remove them. They add on to the “workload” to […]
Cleaner Air Better Care
RM200,000 ‘ Cleaner Air Better Care ‘ project to prevent cross infections at 14 SJAM dialysis centres Medklinn contributes RM-for-RM in joint effort to help kidney patients KLANG, 4th August 2018 – St. John Ambulance of Malaysia (SJAM) tonight launched a RM200,000 “ Cleaner Air Better Care ” project to upgrade its 14 charity haemodialysis centres throughout […]
Sick Building Syndrome
What is Sick Building Syndrome (SBS)? Over the past few years, you may have been hearing the term “ Sick Building Syndrome ”, or SBS more frequently, especially within the workplace. But not everyone is clear on what exactly it is. How it manifests itself, what causes it, and most importantly why it is increasingly […]
Stop Your Exhaust Systems from Sucking Out Profit
ALERT: Your exhaust duct system is sucking out more time, money, safety than anything else! Standard oil and grease filters in exhaust systems only capture 20-40% of particles. This means that the build up starts in the filters and continues to contaminate your hood, the entire duct, and the outside exhaust exit. You increase what […]
Cigarette Smells Can Ruin Customer’s Dining Experience
Cigarette smells leaking into non-smoking areas in a F&B outlet can ruin a customer’s dining experience. It’s a challenge. Just because you designate smoking and non-smoking areas does not mean that smoke smell doesn’t travel. Even if a smoking space is outside, the smell can easily leak indoors, enveloping non-smoking customers, lingering in the air, […]
Say Sayonara to Bad Smells
Unpleasant bad smells are part of our lives. As hard as we may try, we can never avoid them completely. Cooking in our homes often leave remnant odors that can linger for hours and even days. As much as we love them, our pets produce unwanted smells. Lingering smoke, moulds, bacteria can make a perfectly lovely […]
The Secret to Stopping your Sinus Allergies
Incidences of respiratory allergic diseases such as sinus allergies or allergic rhinitis and bronchial asthma have increased dramatically in our society. It is estimated that almost one-third of Malaysians suffer from some form of sinus related allergies. The most common pollutants that trigger sinus reactions are: allergens such as dust mites, pet dander, moulds and […]
Who is More at Risk of Cross Infection when “Grabbing”: Driver or Passenger?
Mobile e-hailing apps have revolutionized the cab industry in the past few years. These e-hailing apps have made cab riding so much more convenient and reliable for passengers, and have become an extremely viable, flexible, offering an alternative source of income for many people. Win-win. But let’s for a moment look at the under-discussed health […]
Medklinn VS Air Filters or Air Purifiers
Air filters. Air purifiers. What are they, and what do they really do? And how exactly is Medklinn different? The difference is actually huge, but not always understood. So here we are going to break it down in its simplest form to help make it a little clearer. Air Filters & Air Purifiers In today’s […]
5 Ways to Prevent Cross Infections
1. Clean Your Hands Use soap and warm water. Rub your hands really well for at least 15 seconds. Rub your palms, fingernail, in between your fingers, and the backs of your hands. Or, if your hands do not look dirty, clean them with alcohol-based hand sanitizers. Rub the sanitizer all over your hands, especially […]
