Hints from Heloise | Warm water helps with ankle ache

Hints from Heloise | Warm water helps with ankle ache

Published 12:33 pm Sunday, June 7, 2026

Dear Heloise: I discovered of a manner to assist with ankle ache. Actually, I’ve a whole lot of ache throughout, however to assist my ankles a bit when having a shower, I plug the drain and let the nice and cozy/sizzling water go up and round my ankles. It does assist fairly a bit, and it doesn’t burn up any extra water. Any reduction is nice reduction. Thanks for publishing your fantastic column. — D.Okay., in Tiffin, Ohio

D.Okay., I’m sorry to listen to about your ankles supplying you with a lot discomfort, however I hope the nice and cozy water retains serving to along with your ache. If my readers know of some other cures for ankle ache (or ache on the whole), please submit them to Heloise@Heloise.com! — Heloise

Shiny mirrors

Dear Heloise: To clear your rest room mirror, use a premium automotive windshield cleaner. The floor can be very clear and be protected against splashes. You can use this cleaner in your exterior dwelling home windows within the spring. It’s additionally good for patio doorways and entrance storm doorways the place pets enter. It protects the shine higher and retains home windows clear for longer. — B.C., in Marshall, Wisconsin

Deviled eggs and extra

Dear Heloise: I normally put together deviled eggs for household gatherings. Sometimes it’s an excessive amount of to boil, peel and put together the yolks at one time. This previous Easter, I boiled and peeled the eggs the Saturday earlier than. Then I put them within the fridge entire. On Sunday after church and a few hours earlier than dinner, I completed making ready them. We couldn’t inform the distinction.

Another trace that I’ve been desirous to share is that I put a roll of bathroom paper within the fridge to get rid of odors. I’ve been doing this for a couple of 12 months, and it really works. If you begin to odor an odor within the fridge, substitute the roll and use one from the lavatory. (No waste!) If you’re older like me, ensure you inform your loved ones why you might be storing bathroom paper in your fridge in order that they don’t suppose you’re shedding your thoughts. — Linda H., in Lincoln, Nebraska

Linda, if I have been you, I feel I’d favor a roll of bathroom paper that was recent from the package deal as an alternative of the lavatory for diminished micro organism in my fridge. — Heloise

Flea season recommendation

Dear Heloise: Flea season is upon us, and I’ve some recommendation to offer to your readers since I work with canine all day on a regular basis. Here are some information everybody ought to know:

A feminine flea can and does lay properly over 100,000 eggs in solely a month.

Fleas carry each typhus and tapeworms. Tapeworms may cause anemia in your canine (and cats, too).

Fleas trigger large discomfort to an animal, inflicting them to continuously scratch and whine.

If your canine or cat has fleas, be sure you bathe them regularly and brush them each day. Brushing will assist take away the flea eggs, so do that outdoors in the event you can. Also, use a flea and tick collar. Your vet may have flea prevention treatment. I don’t advocate over-the-counter anti-flea functions as a result of most of them don’t work or solely work for a really brief time.

In addition, in the event you or anybody in your house has itchy, pink specks on their legs, you might have fleas in your rugs and carpets. This would require skilled steam cleansing. A daily vacuum normally doesn’t have sufficient suction to tug out many fleas. — Kelly C., in Macon, Georgia

— Send a money-saving or timesaving trace to Heloise. You can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or e-mail it to Heloise@Heloise.com. I can’t reply your letter personally however will use the very best hints obtained in my column.