Heart & Circulation Problems Signs & Symptoms Palpitations can be felt in the chest, throat, or neck. With them, it feels like the heart is pounding, racing, and/or fluttering. It can feel like the heart has skipped a beat. Causes Most of the time, palpitations are not a serious problem. Common causes include: * Anxiety. […]
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Abdominal & Urinary Conditions Heartburn has nothing to do with the heart. It involves the esophagus and the stomach. The esophagus passes behind the breastbone alongside the heart. The irritation that takes place there feels like a burning feeling in the heart. Indigestion is a general term for discomfort in the abdomen that comes after
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First Aid Sweat evaporates from the skin to cool the body. If this personal cooling system does not work right or fails to work, heat exhaustion or a heat stroke can occur. Heat exhaustion is a warning that the body is getting too hot. With a heat stroke, body organs start to overheat. They will
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First Aid Most heat-related deaths occur in the hot summer months. Elderly and very young persons and people with chronic health problems are most at risk. Sweating normally cools the body. During hot weather, sweating isn’t enough. Body temperature can rise to dangerous levels and you can develop a heat illness. This includes heat stroke,
Mature Health: Over Age 50 Many people are inconvenienced and embarrassed by urinary incontinence-they leak urine when they laugh, cough, sneeze, or lift heavy objects. Incontinence can be caused when muscles used to control the bladder weaken due to childbirth or prostate surgery. Neurological complications caused by injury or stroke, or neurologic disease (like multiple
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General Health Conditions Using a special glass can make drinking water more fun! * Add frozen berries and fresh herbs like mint or rosemary. * Add lemon or lime for a twist. * Put cold water and ice in a decorated thermos. * Drink water with a crazy straw. * Freeze water in fun-shaped ice
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Abdominal & Urinary Conditions The gallbladder stores bile. This substance helps digest fats. Gallstones form when bile hardens into pieces of stone-like material. These deposit in the gallbladder or bile ducts (which carry bile to the small intestine). The stones can range in size from less than a pinhead to 3 inches across. Signs &
Student Health * Learn your school’s safety guidelines and follow them. Read your school’s safety handbook. Memorize the telephone number(s) for emergency help, such as 9-1-1. Carry a cell phone with you at all times. Pre-program emergency telephone numbers in the phone to be able to call them quickly. * If you choose to drink,
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Sexual Health Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are ones that pass from one person to another through sexual contact. This can be from vaginal, anal, or oral sex, and from genital-to-genital contact. STIs are also called sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). Signs & Symptoms For Females and Males * Painful sores and/or blisters on the genital area,
Pregnancy & Prenatal Care A pregnant woman can have diabetes. If she didn’t have it before the pregnancy, it’s called gestational diabetes. (Gestational refers to pregnancy.) It can begin any time during pregnancy. It usually begins in the last half, though. It goes away after the baby is born. But the woman has a greater
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