Nobody wants the flu. But what happens if you get it and you ’ re pregnant?
First…
It’s strongly recommended that pregnant women get the flu shot. The flu vaccine is safe throughout pregnancy and is the first step to protecting you and your baby from it.
Of course even if you get the vaccine it is still possible to get the flu so make sure to get plenty of rest and use your frequent trips to the bathroom to wash your hands often throughout the day.
Second…
If you think you have the flu contact your doctor right away. Most healthy adults with the flu become mildly ill, and start to feel better in 7 to 10 days. However, if you catch the flu early, your doctor can prescribe an an...
Source: Cord Blood News - February 15, 2017 Category: Perinatology & Neonatology Authors: Maze Cord Blood Tags: babies pregnancy flu pregnancy health Source Type: blogs
A Stitch in Time
At first I thought the beeping was coming from the television. I had just settled back into the couch after tucking my daughter into bed for the second time. Her tummy was hurting. It had been doing that a lot lately. Especially on Sunday nights with the specter of Monday morning looming large. She was getting headaches, stomachaches, nausea. It had been going on for some time.My son is similar. His headaches and bellyaches come and go. He is famous for vomiting at any given moment and then feeling fine the next. And to think of it, we have all been under the weather lately.&nbs...
Source: In My Humble Opinion - January 30, 2017 Category: Primary Care Authors: Jordan Grumet Source Type: blogs
If you think fake news is bad for politics, you should try being a physician
Much of the discussion surrounding the presidential election this year focused on fake news. There were countless stories in newspapers and on television news shows about these obviously biased and fictitious posts that might have affected the outcome of the election. I could not help thinking during this campaign season that if you think fake news is bad for politics, you should try being a physician.
As physicians, we are on the front line in the fight against fake news and deal with the fall out on a regular basis. This is nothing new, especially for primary care doctors like family physicians, internists, and pedi...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 15, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/matthew-anderson" rel="tag" > Matthew Anderson, MD, MBA < /a > Tags: Physician Medications Primary care Source Type: blogs
Going to a walk-in clinic? 6 essential things you must know before you visit
A friend of mine recently had a very sore throat. She knew how to manage her symptoms — lozenges, warm tea and the like. But she was worried she might have strep and would, therefore, need antibiotics. That should be a simple question to answer with a quick trip to the primary care clinic. Except that her primary care physician was booked, and if she wanted an unscheduled appointment with someone else in the clinic, she was told that she would probably wait a couple of hours.
So she went to a “doc-in-the-box,” which according to the Urban Dictionary is “any doctor at a walk-in clinic.” She paid a modest fee and i...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - January 2, 2017 Category: Journals (General) Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/peter-ubel" rel="tag" > Peter Ubel, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Emergency Source Type: blogs
Internet Self-Diagnosis: Mapping the Information Seeking Processes
By SUSAN PEREZ
We’ve all been there. It’s early morning, and you wake up feeling groggier than usual, sensing the onset of a sore throat and a runny nose. Before crawling out of bed, you grab your smart phone and, naturally, Google “groggy sore throat runny nose symptoms.” Hundreds of results pop up, suggesting various illnesses and links to seemingly promising remedies. How could anyone filter through page after page of links, ranging from everyday allergies to deadly diseases?
Many of our health choices are made outside the doctor’s office. The simple decision of whether symptoms are severe enough to warrant v...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Internet Self-Diagnosis: Mapping the Information Seeking Process
By SUSAN PEREZ
We’ve all been there. It’s early morning, and you wake up feeling groggier than usual, sensing the onset of a sore throat and a runny nose. Before crawling out of bed, you grab your smart phone and, naturally, Google “groggy sore throat runny nose symptoms.” Hundreds of results pop up, suggesting various illnesses and links to seemingly promising remedies. How could anyone filter through page after page of links, ranging from everyday allergies to deadly diseases?
Many of our health choices are made outside the doctor’s office. The simple decision of whether symptoms are severe enough to warrant v...
Source: The Health Care Blog - December 29, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: John Irvine Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
6 Tips for Determining if a Doc-in-the-Box Is Right for You
A friend of mine recently had a very sore throat. She knew how to manage her symptoms–lozenges, warm tea and the like. But she was worried she might have strep and would therefore need antibiotics. That should be a simple … Continue reading →
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Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 18, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Peter Ubel Tags: Health Care Medical Decision Making Peter Ubel syndicated Uncategorized Source Type: blogs
Parents: How smart are you about antibiotics?
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It’s National Get Smart about Antibiotics week, an annual effort by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to help make sure that we use antibiotics wisely.
Out of all the visits children make to health care providers, 1 in 5 result in a prescription for antibiotics. That’s about 50 million prescriptions a year. But here’s the worrisome part: 10 million of those prescriptions are for respiratory illnesses that antibiotics aren’t likely to help. Basically, 1 in 5 of those 50 million prescriptions shouldn’t have been written in the first place.
This is a real problem. An...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 15, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Claire McCarthy, MD Tags: Children's Health Infectious diseases Pets Source Type: blogs
Surviving Honeymoon ‘ Disasters ’
Conclusion
In conclusion, with all of the problems mentioned above, they are easier solved if you can somehow maintain your sense of humor and a feeling of inner peace.
It is the silly problems you’ll remember about your honeymoon.
In 20 years, you’ll be toasting your anniversary and giggling about how you spent three days of the trip in the local library because of pouring rain.
Don’t let the little “disasters” get you down. (Source: World of Psychology)
Source: World of Psychology - November 14, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Marriage and Divorce Self-Help Stress Women's Issues canceled holiday Cold Feet Coping Honeymoon Newlyweds Perspective regret travel problems Vacation wedding disaster Source Type: blogs
Online symptom checkers: You ’ ll still want to call a doctor when something ’ s wrong with you
Doctors make mistakes. I strongly believe in being open about this, and I have written about my own missed or delayed diagnoses on this and other blogs. But guess what? Research supports what I’ve long suspected: when it comes to making the correct diagnosis, doctors are waaaay better than computers.
A recent study compared the diagnostic accuracy of 234 physicians with 23 different computer programs. The authors gave mystery clinical cases of varying severity and difficulty to doctors, and ran the same cases through various online “symptom-checker” programs. The cases came from The Human Diagnosis Project, which...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - November 14, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Health Health care Managing your health care Source Type: blogs
How to Beat a Cold Before It Gets Its Hooks into You – 5 Easy Natural Steps
At the first sign of a cold you can employ this easy and natural five prong attack to wipe out any cold before it gains any steam. To be most effective this strategy needs to be started as soon as you feel the first signs of a cold such as headache, sniffles, sneezing, or a sore throat.
In fact I just used this successfully yesterday. I had a cold coming on last night: headache, sneezing, tired. I followed this protocol and by the time I went to bed I already felt better! By the morning I was 100% healthy. Zero symptoms. This is amazingly effective. It’s effectiveness is directly proportional to how soon you get star...
Source: Life Learning Today - October 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Family Healthy Living How To Solving Problems common cold common cold remedy flu remedy natural cure Source Type: blogs
How to Beat a Cold Before It Gets Its Hooks into You – 5 Easy Natural Steps
At the first sign of a cold you can employ this easy and natural five prong attack to wipe out any cold before it gains any steam. To be most effective this strategy needs to be started as soon as you feel the first signs of a cold such as headache, sniffles, sneezing, or a sore throat.
In fact I just used this successfully yesterday. I had a cold coming on last night: headache, sneezing, tired. I followed this protocol and by the time I went to bed I already felt better! By the morning I was 100% healthy. Zero symptoms. This is amazingly effective. It’s effectiveness is directly proportional to how soon you get star...
Source: Life Learning Today - October 26, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: AgentSully Tags: Family Healthy Living How To Solving Problems common cold common cold remedy flu remedy natural cure Source Type: blogs
Flu news: Now most people with egg allergies can get a flu shot
There are hundreds of viruses that can cause respiratory illnesses; influenza (the “flu”) is just one group of viruses which can cause mild to severe illness, and sometimes even death. Certain people — such as the very young or the very old, pregnant women, or those with chronic medical conditions like asthma, diabetes, or heart disease — are at greater risk for serious complications from the flu. Though the numbers fluctuate, the flu leads to hundreds of thousands of hospitalizations and anywhere from 3,000 to 49,000 deaths every year in the U.S., based on the numbers from the last few decades. How bad the flu sea...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - October 6, 2016 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Wynne Armand, MD Tags: Cold and Flu Infectious diseases Prevention Vaccines Source Type: blogs
