Tetanus: Treatment

January 22, 2011

Treatment Treatment may include: Antibiotics, including penicillin, clindamycin, erythromycin, or metronidazole (metronidazole has been most successful) Bedrest with a nonstimulating environment (dim light, reduced noise, and stable temperature) Medicine to reverse the poison (tetanus immune globulin) Muscle relaxers such as diazepam Sedatives Surgery to clean the wound and remove the source of the poison (debridement) [...]

Read the full article →

Healing arts practitioners of collaborate for classes on midlife health

January 22, 2011

Jamie Davidson has spent her life dedicated to helping people stay healthy naturally, and acknowledges that people go through changes as they age. Rather than bemoan and stress over the aging process, Davidson said people — especially women — should celebrate the different phases in their lives as each phase becomes an opportunity to know [...]

Read the full article →

Storm Team 4: Frost Bite Danger Zone

January 22, 2011

MILWAUKEE – Metro Milwaukee hospitals are already reporting people coming into emergency rooms showing cases of frost bite. Dr. Christopher Asandra with St. Joseph’s Hospital in Milwaukee says, "We’ve seen some mild cases of frost bite already setting in." Dr. Asandra says the very young and very old and the homeless seem to suffer the [...]

Read the full article →

What are the symptoms of a uterine infection?

January 22, 2011

My mare rubs her hip/butt (not her tail) on her stall door when she is in heat (really hard). no worms and never been bread. She's 6 y.o. Your #1 answer looks good.

Read the full article →

If a baby has a good chance of getting cystic Fibrosis Will the baby show symptoms right away?

January 22, 2011

I was just wondering because we were talking about it is science and i want to know if it takes a while for the disease to show or does the baby have symptoms right away….and sorry for my spelling! some babies will have symptoms when they are born and some wont Most of the time [...]

Read the full article →

Case Western Reserve Receives $7.8M to Study Mania in Children

January 22, 2011

Newswise — the Department of Psychiatry at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine has received a $7.8 million renewal grant from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) for the long-term study of manic symptoms in children. The grant from the NIMH, one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), funds the continuation of [...]

Read the full article →

Parent-child play therapy relieves depression in preschoolers

January 22, 2011

Known as parent-child interaction therapy, the play-based technique has been used successfully to treat hyperactivity and disruptive disorders. The researchers adapted it, adding a focus on emotional development, to test whether it could help parents teach their children how to regulate negative emotions, such as guilt and sadness. Play therapy sessions put parents and their [...]

Read the full article →

Cold, hard facts about flu season

January 22, 2011

Because I Said So Parenting Advice January 21, 2011 A wrap-up of winter health-care tips for families: Despite what Grandma might say in this rough winter, cold temperatures are not the cause of colds or flu. The culprit is the viruses that cause colds and flu, which tend to be more common during the winter, [...]

Read the full article →

What is the symptoms of food poisoning and symptoms of flu ?

January 22, 2011

How many hours for food poisoning to start/ and flu symptoms to start? Food poisoning can start as soon as 30 min. after eating… up to 12 hrs. Flu takes about 3 days. food poisoning: vomiting; dehydration; fever; flu: fever; runny or cloged nose Not sure what the incubation period for the flu is, but [...]

Read the full article →

Woman’s art, selected for calendar, source of strength in Parkinson’s fight

January 22, 2011

STOCKTON – The paintings hanging throughout Cindy DeLuz’s home are as bright, colorful and whimsical as DeLuz, herself, especially when she’s talking about the joy she derives from her art. DeLuz creates her mixed-media paintings and collage work in her Stockton home office, a tidy work space with neat rows of colored paints, a computer [...]

Read the full article →

← Previous Entries

Next Entries →