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Here are nine products to consider stocking in your medicine cabinet to keep yourself and your family healthy.
1. Pain and fever reducer
If you have pain or a fever, having acetaminophen (Tylenol) or ibuprofen (Motrin, Advil) in your medicine cabinet is important.
When taking these medications, do not exceed the recommended daily amounts. Taking more than recommended can be harmful.
These types of medications may not be safe for some people. Be sure to speak with your health care provider about which pain and fever reducer is the safest for you.
Birchaven Village and Independence House, divisions of Blanchard Valley Health System, have earned a Five Star Overall ranking from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Recognitions such as this are a measure of how well we are doing,” said Bridgett Mundy, Director of both facilities. “Throughout our organization we have forged a culture that inspires people to do the extraordinary every day.”
Nursing Home Compare allows consumers to compare information about long term care facilities. It contains quality of care information on over 15,000 Medicare and Medicaid-certified nursing facilities in the country.
Mercy Health welcomes Joel L Shanklin, MD, FACS, to the Mercy Health – Lima Reconstructive & Plastic Surgery department.
A provider that with over 25 years of experience, Dr. Shanklin areas of expertise include aesthetic plastic surgery, facial plastic surgery and reconstructive plastic surgery.
“There is a negative connotation often associated with plastic surgery, but I think that it’s important to acknowledge that patients all have a different reason for seeking out treatment. Birth defects, disease and traumatic injury, for example,” said Dr. Shanklin.
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It’s getting chilly out and, just like clockwork, you’re back sniffling again. But before you write off that stuffy nose as just another cold, you may want to consider that the culprit could actually be winter allergies.
Fortunately, there are steps you can take to tame your bothersome allergies.
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We see nutrition labels every day on nearly everything we eat. But what good are they if we don’t understand what we’re actually eating?
Here are some ways to decode the label and some of the ingredients we often see.
Let's start at the beginning.
1) Serving Size
This is found at the top of the label. People often overlook or don’t understand a food’s serving size. It’s important to pay attention to portion size to make sure you’re not eating too much (which could lead to weight gain) or too little (not getting the full nutritional value).
Mercy Health has expanded access for outpatient ultrasound imaging to Mercy Health – Wapakoneta Imaging Services, 1015 South Blackhoof St., Suite D.. Other locations include Mercy Health – Putnam County MedicalCenter and Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center.
“Imaging services offer opportunity for early detection and diagnosis, which saves lives,” said Patricia Giesken, Director of Imaging Services at Mercy Health – St. Rita’s Medical Center.
“At Mercy Health, we try to give the community as many access points for treatment and comprehensive care. Especially because the health and well-being of the community is one of our top priorities.”
