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Tips for the ER

Tips for the ER

1. Emergency Room Runs

It will happen under your watch as a parent. The emergency room run will happen when you least expect it. Getting out of the door with your child in one piece is the hard part, the next phase after getting to the hospital emergency room is parking getting your baby inside and into the waiting room. You should keep a checklist of items that you know you will need to register your baby for services.

2. Identification

You will need picture identification this could be driver’s license or State issued ID card. You should have your baby’s health insurance card and you may be asked for yours as well. Your cards should be well in the coverage area and not expired. You are legally and financially responsible for any care your child receives from the hospital. They will take great care I charging you for those services so pay attention.

3. Triage

Once you are called back to triage your baby’s vitals will be taken. This can be an alarming procedure for new parents. Hospital staff cares for hundreds of people per week. They have to move fast and efficiently. So they can’t coddle this is about helping sick people. So as a new mommy watch from the sidelines as your son’s temperature is taken resist the urge to grab the thermometer and hold it yourself. Let the staff do their jobs.

4. Long ER Visits

You will be seen in emergency based on the seriousness of the illness. It isn’t first come first serve when lives are at stake. If you have packed a bag full of toys and things to keep your baby occupied while you wait that is a good deal. He may not want to play most people don’t when aren’t feeling well. But you never know. Take nourishment for yourself even a bag of nuts and bottled water beats nothing and is better than the vending machine fare.

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Keep your Germs to Yourself

Living with your spouse and children is a great experience until someone gets sick. Then, inevitably, it spreads to every member of the house and you are either lying in bed with a cold, driving someone to the doctor or taking care of someone. The endless cycle seems to happen every year.  Here are some helpful tips on how to avoid spreading a cold.

Make sure that everyone washes their hands routinely. Even if you are not showing signs of being sick you could have germs. You can easily spread these germs or infect yourself before you know it. Be especially careful around food. You can prepare a meal for your family that will end up with everyone being out of commission.

Keep things clean. Germs can linger so make sure to wipe down areas or objects that might be contaminated. Tables, chairs, faucets and door knobs are high traffic places where germs may spread.

Sneezing and coughing can quickly spread germs throughout your house so remind everyone to cover their mouths and use a tissue. A single sneeze can be responsible for spreading a cold to everyone in the house.

While most of these tips seem like common sense, they can be forgotten when you are not feeling well or are taking care of a sick loved one.  Make sure to wash your hands, wipe down surfaces and cover your mouth. Following these simple tips can save everyone from having to take a week off to get over a cold.

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Understanding symptoms during pregnancy

Being pregnant, the more one learns about it, can become some sort of mystical all-encompassing miasma of symptoms, feelings and strange goings on in the woman’s body. For instance, a first-time mother recently learned from her doctor that it is not uncommon for her bowel movements to turn black in color and have the consistency of caulking putty.

That fact alone is nothing special, but combine it with the realization that it can also be normal to suddenly develop a new and often bright birth mark on her face, quaintly known as the pregnancy mask. Additionally she might gain a new headache she’s never experienced before, or get gas pain in her shoulder – not a place one might imagine gas pain to locate itself. She may even inexplicably find herself retching from foods she’s previously relished.

Of course there are still symptoms which are quite serious and warrant an immediate call to or trip to the doctor’s office. Constant and prolonged contractions or heavy, steady blood like a menstrual flow are the sorts of dangerous symptoms which need immediate care and action. But, if a woman who is beginning to show the baby bump experiences sudden and odd changes to her body, it’s going to become a running joke to blame everything on the pregnancy.

“It’s because you are pregnant,” she will hear over and over, as she asks why her nipples, nose or lips have suddenly doubled in size, or because she can’t stand Sheryl Crow anymore. She will soon realize this new human life growing inside her is change itself, embodied in a tiny, squirming body. It will change the way she moves, feels and even thinks before it’s all done. And of course at the moment the baby finally emerges, that’s when the changes really begin.

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How to Balance Work and Sick Kids

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Being a parent can be a difficult task. What’s even harder is juggling work while your kids are sick. For nearly all mothers, the honest answer is that their children is a priority far above work. So, how can mothers find a way to accommodate work and a sick child?

Save personal days- just in case
Let’s face it, sometimes personal days aren’t purely for the person. When a mother has a family, she has to think about her kids. Previously, she may have purely thought about her own personal well-being. So, stack up those personal days in case your kid needs you.

Talk to your supervisor ahead of time
The moment your child gets sick and has to depend on you is the moment you need to call your boss. Bosses can show compassion and understanding for employees who have kids. After all, chances are they have kids of their own.

Schedule your work to complete important tasks first
Finish up the monumental projects as soon as possible. That way, your boss is more likely to allow you to leave early and spend time with your children.

Have a network of emergency caregivers
Talk to the people who love you and your child. This could be your own spouse, family members or neighbors. In case you have to stop by the office, you can call someone in your network to help you out until you can get back home.

Prevent illnesses
If your kid is coughing on Saturday, be sure to nip it at the bud. Give your child the attention he or she needs to conquer potential illnesses. Offer medicine, tea and anything else that can help your child get back to normal. It’s also important for your child to have a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle no matter what.

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AIDS

Recent research and case history analysis suggests that vertebral manipulation may have wide-ranging effects. From improvement in symptoms like peripheral neuropathy, to stimulation of immune system components, chiropractic is encouraging to individual well being. Quality of life issues, the prevention of disease and symptoms, as well as generalized health maintenance all can be affected through chiropractic treatment. As a holistic health-care alternative, a primary focus of chiropractic is the maintenance of good health. The reduction of stress, education of the patient towards and immunopositive lifestyle and the removal of nervous system interference are the central benefits which chiropractic offers.
Martin C; Chiropractic and HIV infection J Am Chiro Assoc. 1995; 32(12): 41-4 / Mantis ID: 28315

Over a 6-month period of treatment the adjusted group experienced a 48% increase in CD4 cell counts, while over the same period the control group experienced a 7.96% decrease in CD4 cell counts. This represents an 55.96% difference in CD4 cell counts.
Selano JL; Hightower BC; Pfleger B; Collins KF; Grostic JD. The effects of specific upper cervical adjustments on the CD4 counts of HIV positive patients. CRJ 1994; 3(1): 32 / Mantis ID: 27222

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