Q: Box cakes are very often simple vanilla or chocolate cakes with a simple topping. Th easiest way to spiff up such a boring cake is to throw some candy into the batter before you bake it. By dropping some candy into the batter, you’ll transform your cake into a unique surprise for the whole family.  Add popular chocolate candies to your batter. For instance, consider throwing in pieces of Snickers, Baby Ruth, Heath Bar, or other chocolate candies. Drop sugar candies into the batter. Consider dropping gummy worms or peppermint pieces into your batter. If you want something simple, add chocolate or butterscotch chips to your batter. Try to tailor your creation to the season. There are a wide variety of things you can add to your batter to improve it. Ultimately, flavor combinations you can create are almost impossible to quantify. Consider adding:  Half of a cup of sour cream to make your vanilla boxed cake richer A couple of tablespoons of peanut butter Pumpkin puree Nuts Coconut flakes or even coconut milk Fruits like strawberries, bananas, blueberries, raspberries, or even pineapple. By adding spices and extracts, you'll be able to personalize your boxed cake. Ultimately, spices enable you to experiment with making a wide range of cakes.  Add an extra teaspoon of vanilla extract to your batter. Think about adding some lemon extract to a yellow boxed cake to turn it into a lemon cake. Start with a couple of teaspoons and add more based on your preference. Add between two and three teaspoons of spices for one boxed cake. Some popular spices include: cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and cloves. Adjust your ingredients appropriately. For instance, if you are adding pieces of candy to your boxed cake, you may want to add less spices. Start with a smaller amount of spices, and taste the batter to see if it needs more. While adding candy might improve the overall taste of your cake, adding color will give it a truly unique character. Thus, think about different colors you may want to turn your batter.  Coloring your batter works best with vanilla cakes. Use food coloring to transform your batter. Think of blue, red, yellow, green, or other colors. Dye your batter based on the holiday. Try dying your batter green for St. Patrick’s Day, red for Valentine’s Day, or even green and red for Christmas.
A: Throw in some candy. Add food to your batter. Put spices or extracts into your batter. Color your batter.

Q: Educating yourself can help you understand thunderstorms so they can lose some of their power over you. Look up statistics about lightning strikes accidents. The number of people getting struck by lightning is low, especially indoors. Lightning will always strike the nearest electrically conductible object in its vicinity, and if you're indoors, that is most definitely not you. Learn what causes lightning and the sound of thunder, and learn about how lightning strikes occur. Watching your local weather channel if bad weather is predicted can help prepare you for any incoming storms. Radars will show the projected path of the storm and will estimate the severity of the storm based on the colors on the radar.  Remember, storms may be slightly worse or less severe when they reach your area. Preparing yourself for the storm can help you face any storm that comes. Often, red and yellow areas on a radar just mean heavy rain and don’t necessarily mean terrible lightning and thunder. Weather bulletins will be issued for both thunderstorm watches and thunderstorm warnings. Watches mean the conditions are favorable and there may be a storm in the future. Warnings mean there are storms in your area that you need to be aware of and prepare for.
A: Research on thunderstorms. Be informed. Learn the difference between watches and warnings.

Q: To get diagnosed with CIDP, you need to see a physician. This should be done when you notice tingling or numbness in your body or any motor function problems. The doctor will perform an exam and discuss your symptoms with you.  Start keeping track of your symptoms as soon as you notice them. CIDP is only diagnosed after eight weeks of symptoms. Be as honest and detailed with your symptoms as possible. CIDP is similar in some ways to several other disorders. The more your doctor knows about your symptoms, the easier it will be to distinguish one disorder from another. Be prepared to tell your doctor what symptoms you have, where in the body you feel them, what makes them worse, and what makes them better. Your doctor may perform a neurological examination to rule out related conditions or gather additional information to confirm CIDP. During a neurological examination, your doctor will probably check your reflexes since a lack of reflexes is a common symptom of CIDP.  Your doctor may also test different parts of your body to check for numbness or your ability to feel pressure or touch sensation. You may also have to do a coordination test. The doctor may check your muscle strength, muscle tone, and posture. Your doctor may order several tests to confirm CIDP — there is no one test that can confirm the diagnosis.You may need to get a nerve conduction test or  electromyography (EMG). These tests look for slow nerve function or abnormal electrical activity that signals nerve damage.  The nerves are stimulated and checked to see if they are damaged. Then, the muscles are tested to see if the muscle or nerve is the cause of the problem. These tests can help the doctor find damaged or missing myelin along the nerves. Myelin is a sheath around nerves that helps control electrical impulses. An MRI may be done to look for enlargement of the nerve roots or inflammation. Your doctor may perform additional tests to make sure there is nothing else causing your symptoms. A spinal fluid analysis will show if you have elevated protein levels or an elevated cell count, which both point to CIDP. Blood and urine tests may also be conducted to rule out other conditions.
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Go to the doctor. Undergo a neurological examination. Get tests to check your nerve function. Go through other tests to rule out other conditions.