A pap exam, or pap smear, is a test that your OBGYN uses to help detect cancer and other potential problems with your reproductive system. This test is fairly quick and painless, but it helps if you are fully prepared so the process will go as smoothly as possible for you. Here is some helpful information so that you'll feel confident on the day of your pap exam.
Preparation
When you schedule your pap test, it's important that you choose a date when you are not menstruating.
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Some types of serious allergies can be treated with immunotherapy injections, also called allergy shots. While these injections are effective, convincing a needle-phobic child to receive three to five years of regular injections can be challenging, to say the least. Fortunately, there is now an alternative to these shots: pills that dissolve under the tongue. Here are three things parents need to know about sublingual immunotherapy.
How is sublingual immunotherapy performed?
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IV therapy refers to administering any of a wide variety of liquid substances into the body via a vein. Administering drugs and other substances in this way is typically advantageous because IV therapy allows the substance to enter the blood stream directly. One common application of IV therapy is administering vitamins to patients intravenously through IV vitamin therapy.
IV vitamin therapy is sometimes used as a preventative therapy to improve overall health.
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One of the hardest things to do for senior family members is ensure that they are maintaining a healthy diet when living on their own. Sometimes, aging family members struggle with cooking and daily tasks, making it difficult to cook healthy, well-balanced meals. If you're trying to support a loved one's efforts to remain independent, here are a few great meal options to help him or her balance nutrition with simplicity.
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A torn rotator cuff can be significantly painful, and it can limit your range of motion in your arm and shoulder until it is repaired. While some small tears may heal on their own without intervention, a complete, large tear is likely to require more extensive intervention. In fact, you may find that you need to visit an orthopedic surgeon to do a surgical repair of the damage. This repair involves stitching the tear to fix it.
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