5-1-1- Rule for our pregnant patients

This blog entry is specifically for our pregnant patients that are 36 weeks and greater.

 

As you approach the long awaited arrival of your newborn, you are most certainly starting to become overwhelmed with emotions.  Excitement, exhaustion, fear and anxiety, impatience and of course love.  You get to the point that every phone conversation is started off with “No, I am not in labor” and you feel like a ticking time bomb as family and friends, and even strangers, constantly ask ...

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SEP
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Opioid addiction

by Julie Schweitzer WHNP

If you watched Superbowl 50, you most likely saw the commercial titled “Envy”.  It is an advertisement for medication to help with OIC (Opioid Induced Constipation).  The commercial itself is quite funny if it weren’t for the seriousness of the true problem of opioid addiction.  Opioids are medications used to help relieve pain such as Vicodin, Oxycontin, Percocet, Morphine and Tramadol.  These medications are intended to help with acute pain, such a post surgical pain relief, injury ...

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JUL
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Should I Take Baby Aspirin If I Am Pregnant?

by Dr. Janet Matuszek

The US Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF) has recently recommended that all pregnant women who have one major risk factor for developing preeclampsia be treated with low-dose aspirin which is 81mg daily which is a baby aspirin.  These are listed below:
– Multifetal gestations (twins, triplets)
– Chronic hypertension (having high blood pressure before pregnancy started)
– Type 1 or 2 diabetes mellitus (not gestational diabetes)
-Patients with renal (kidney) disease, autoimmune diseases (like Lupus)
-Prior history ...

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JUN
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Health on Heels™ Blog, Pregnancy and Postpartum, The Latest Guidelines and Recommendations

I’m pregnant… but one glass of wine is ok, right?

by Rachel Bender WHNP

The truth is, as your health care provider, we simply cannot tell you one glass of wine will be ok.  There is no evidence to support any amount of alcohol or time of consumption as being “safe”.  The Association of Women’s Health, Obstetrics, and Neonatal Nursing (AWHONN) is joining together with Arc, the largest national community-based organization advocating for and serving people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families, to raise awareness to patient’s and their ...

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MAY
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Updated Zika Blog-Can I go to Mexico on Spring Break? ………….The Zika Virus

by Dr. Janet Matuszek

Well, a new virus is among us. This one is called the Zika Virus and it is transmitted by a certain type of mosquito. If you are infected, the most common symptoms are fever, rash, joint pain and conjunctivitis (red eyes). Headaches and muscle pain are also symptoms you could have. A rarer disorder is Guillain-Barre’ (which is a rare neurological condition where your body attacks your nervous system. You start feeling weakness and tingling in your ...

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12
MAY
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General Health, Health on Heels™ Blog, Pregnancy and Postpartum, The Latest Guidelines and Recommendations, Women's Health

Stay safe in the sun because Melanoma is no fun

by Dr. Kelly Ott

Researchers estimate that nearly one-third of cases of melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, are diagnosed in women during their childbearing years. Since many women now are delaying pregnancy until their 30s or 40s, coupled with the fact that melanoma is the most common form of cancer for young adults 25-29 years old, more women could be faced with developing melanoma before or during pregnancy.

Per the Mayo Clinic, the definition of melanoma, the ...

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12
MAY
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General Health, Health on Heels™ Blog, Pregnancy and Postpartum, The Latest Guidelines and Recommendations, Women's Health

To B or not to B

by Julie Schweitzer WHNP

Maintaining a healthy balance of essential vitamins and minerals are important during all stages of pregnancy and nursing.  To make it easy for you, here is a list of vitamins that you will want to include in your daily diet.

Vitamin B6 is important for your body to metabolize proteins, fats and carbs.   Vitamin B6 also helps in forming red blood cells and antibodies.  In the developing baby it plays a vital role in developing the baby’s brain ...

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APR
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Bye, bye UTI

by Angie Warner WHNP

It’s 3 am and you’re waking up from a deep sleep with a sudden urgency to go pee.  As you stumble to the bathroom and sit on the toilet trying desperately to not wake up too much, you realize that although you have so much pressure and urgency to void, your bladder only allows a few dribbles to escape.  You make it back to bed to sleep until that dreaded alarm goes off only to ...

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MAR
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General Health, Health on Heels™ Blog, The Latest Guidelines and Recommendations, Women's Health

Talc Powder and Ovarian Cancer…..Am I at risk???

by Dr. Janet Matuszek

Johnson and Johnson was just ordered this month to pay $72 million dollars to one family of a woman who died from ovarian cancer after years of using the company’s talcum products. What does that mean to me….am I at risk?

First, lets all put this into perspective. Just because a jury found a company liable, does not mean that there is an association. Look at breast implants. Silicone breast implant company, Dow Corning, had to file bankruptcy ...

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16
MAR
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General Health, Health on Heels™ Blog, The Latest Guidelines and Recommendations, Women's Health

Are the latest trends causing you and your Gyno to become best friends? From topics of “Althlesiure Wear” to… “Have Hair or Go Bare?”

by Angie Warner WHNP

While we at WCS are happy to support women involved in an active lifestyle and encourage daily exercise, we are no fools to believe that every female we see at school, walking in the stores and at hanging out at the bus stops in their yoga pants are on their way to or from the gym.  In fact yoga pants and leggings have become such a staple in women’s fashion that they have coined a new category ...

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JAN
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General Health, Health on Heels™ Blog, Pregnancy and Postpartum, The Latest Guidelines and Recommendations, Women's Health

American Cancer Society changes breast cancer screening recommendations and causes all sorts of questions

by Angie Warner WHNP

American Cancer Society’s (ACS) newest recommendations on breast cancer screening has been a frequently asked about topic on TV interviews, in the papers, social media and there is no exception that it is discussed at most Well Women Exams.

Women’s Care Specialists LLC (WCS) does not agree with the ACS’s current recommendations.  We follow the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommendation of annual screening mammography for average risk women to begin at age 40 and to ...

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DEC
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Health on Heels™ Blog

How to Win Your Next Argument, Even if You’re Wrong

Many of you who were drawn in by this title are going to be disappointed. Because I tricked you. You see, in our relationships we sometimes resort to underhanded tactics just like that because we think it helps us win the fight. Or we resort to personal attacks. Have you ever said, or heard from your partner, something like, “You never…” or “You don’t try” or “You have to…” or made excuses for double standards?

It’s the paradox of being a ...

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NOV
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