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Tips For Dealing With Food Allergies For School-Age Kids
Having a child with food allergies can lead to anxiety, particularly if your child goes to a mainstream school every day. After all, if you aren't there to make sure that everything he or she eats is allergen-free, how do you avoid a reaction? Here are a few key tips for helping your newly diagnosed child to ensure a safe school day. Start With Communication As soon as your child receives a diagnosis of a food allergy, reach out to the school administration.

Dealing With The Chronic Pain Of A Neck Injury
If you suffer from chronic neck pain, then it's important for you to find ways to get relief from the pain. You also want to know how to decrease your chances of aggravating your injury and triggering more pain. This article will help you with both preventing and dealing with neck pain. Caring for your neck When you know you have neck problems, you should be careful not to make things worse.

Hurt Your Knee Playing Sports? Here's A Look At Possible Injuries
If you've hurt your knee playing soccer, football or another sport, you're not alone. Knee injuries among athletes are with more than 6 million knee injuries presenting in U.S. emergency rooms between 1999 and 2008. While there is no way to know for sure what injury you are suffering from without a visit to an orthopedic doctor, you can get a little peace of mind by comparing your symptoms to those of these common knee injuries.

Signs Your Baby Has Food Allergies
As your baby ages, you will begin introducing them to new foods. Many parents start with rice cereal, then move on to other types of solids, such as oatmeal, bananas, and other soft solids that are easy to digest. Since your baby's digestive system is still learning how to accept new foods, you don't know which foods may cause an allergy or not. Here are signs your baby may have a food allergy to some of the things they are eating.

3 Important Changes That Impact How CPR Is Performed By Non-Medical Personnel
If it has been a while since you took CPR classes or you have never had the opportunity to become certified in cardiopulmonary resuscitation, there are some crucial new guidelines about it that you should know. In recent years, there have been important changes in how CPR can safely be given by non-medical persons. In fact, there have been changes made to this important practice in 2011, 2014 and then again in 2015.

Important Things Parents Should Know About Food Allergies
Are you the parent of a small child? Are you worried about his or her health? It's natural for a parent to be concerned about their child's health, especially when it comes to food allergies. If you're wondering whether or not to talk to your child's pediatrician about food allergy testing, here are the answers to some questions you may have: If a parent is allergic to milk, will their child also be allergic to milk?

Will You Have To Take Hormone Replacement Therapy After A Hysterectomy?
Hormone replacement therapy can help many women showing symptoms of menopause. These symptoms can be brought about by natural menopause or by certain surgical procedures. If you are soon to be undergoing a hysterectomy, you may need to take hormone replacement therapy. Will you have to take hormone replacement therapy after a hysterectomy? Hysterectomies are often combined with a procedure called an oophorectomy, which is a removal of the ovaries. Not all hysterectomies involve removal of the ovaries.

Tips For Traveling Comfortably With Arthritis
If you have arthritis and you are going to be taking a road trip, you want to make sure you prepare yourself to deal with the pain while you are in the car. This article will offer you some helpful tips on how you can travel with arthritis and get more enjoyment out of the trip. Make a rice sock to take with you A great way to keep the pain at bay is with a rice sock.

Déjà Vu: Do Cataracts Grow Back?
If you have undergone cataract surgery in the past, you probably rejoiced at your renewed bright and colorful visual capacity. However, if your vision has begun to appear cloudy once again, you may be wondering if cataracts can grow back. Initial Surgery When your cataract surgery was performed, an incision was made on the cornea of your eye, through which the core of the clouded lens was removed. When this was done, the outer membrane of the lens was left behind to house the intraocular lens that was then implanted to replace the natural lens.

How To Prepare Your Child For Their First Eye Exam
Many children dislike going to the doctor and having a stranger look closely at them. Even a trip to the eye doctor at a place like Premier Eye Care & Surgery can be scary with the machines and eye drops. Children become nervous with the unknown. How can you prepare your child for the first eye exam? Practice Makes Perfect Before going to the doctor's office, take some time to explain to your child what will happen during the eye examination.