Search Results for: blog blood work

Fun Ways to Work Up Your Appetite

Thanksgiving is less than a week away. For some home cooks, Turkey Day meal preps are already underway. Given how much blood, sweat and tears are shed in order to create a sumptuous holiday spread for the entire clan, it would be nice to see it completely consumed. If you are worried that your hard work in the kitchen will go unappreciated and that you’ll be stuck with enough Turkey Day leftovers to feed an army, consider getting the clan to partake in the following activities that are sure to work up their Thanksgiving appetite: Pumpkin Sweep: Give each person … Continue reading →

A Blood Test to Help Diagnose Major Depression in Teens

Posted on by

Is your teen a little down, or is she experiencing a major depression? Maybe it isn’t depression at all, but rather, a form of anxiety. These types of disorders can sometimes be difficult for doctors and psychologists to diagnose. Scientists have developed a blood test that can make it easier to diagnose depression in teens. Depression is not limited to adults. Major depression affects about 1% of children who are under the age of 12. By the time a young person reaches his or her late teens or young adulthood, that percentage goes up to around 25%. Teens, and young … Continue reading →

Is High Blood Pressure In Your Family Medical History?

I have talked before about the importance of knowing your family medical history. The other day I was at a doctor’s appointment and my doctor actually asked me questions about my mother, father, and sister. He even drew a little family tree right there in my medical chart. The reason for his inquiry into my family’s medical history is that I developed high blood pressure during both of my pregnancies. My son was born almost four weeks ago, and my blood pressure is still high enough that I must take medication for it. These current pieces of information regarding my … Continue reading →

Finding More Time To Work

Being a home – based professional gives me the flexibility to work anytime, anywhere. Of course, for me, any time means any time that my son is napping, sleeping, or in the care of my husband or another loving relative. Anywhere does mean just that, though. Today I thought it might be fun to talk about some of the places that I have taken my trusty laptop in the interest of getting work done when the opportunity presents itself. Why today? Well, today I am sitting in the waiting room of the phlebotomy lab at a hospital an hour away … Continue reading →

Working at Home While Pregnant and Raising a Toddler

Today’s topic is for the stay – at – home moms out there. If you started working at home after the arrival of your first little one, it is entirely possible that you may find yourself working from home and raising a young child while expecting your second child. That is where I am at right now. Our son is twenty seven months old, I work from home fifteen to twenty hours a week, and we are expecting a baby boy in the middle of April. My husband works outside of the home fifty hours a week, but if you … Continue reading →

Clinic Will Charge Unhealthy Workers Higher Insurance Rates

The Cleveland Clinic, in Ohio, is going to charge workers who are considered to be unhealthy a 21% higher health insurance premium than it will charge to employees who are healthy. There is a lot of debate over whether this type of plan achieves the goal of making workers become healthier. Charging some workers more for insurance, based upon that person’s health, is part of a growing trend. The Cleveland Clinic is about to do something that many other employers have done. They want their workers to become healthier. More and more employers have become very interested in how healthy, … Continue reading →

Too Much Work Can Harm Your Health

Some Americans define themselves by their work, so they work extra long and extra hard to accomplish their goals. Some Americans simply have to work long hours just to get by. Either way, working too much can be bad for your health. One thing it can cause is depression. This seems understandable. WebMD has said that working too many hours may make you less interested in your friends and family as well as neglectful in good care of yourself. Another problem that I worry about myself is sitting too much. I get involved in a web page or a blog … Continue reading →

Blood Work

This may seem silly, but I absolutely abhor needles. The mere thought of blood being drawn from my veins leaves me cold. There are certainly much worse procedures to have done and I know that there are people that endure needles and much worse almost daily. God bless those people and thank God I am not one of those people. I remember going with my mother to her prenatal appointments as a child. There was the amazing part of hearing the baby’s heartbeat. Then there was the horrifying part of my mother having her blood work done … I couldn’t … Continue reading →

Could Blood Transfusions Trigger Allergic Reactions?

Posted on by

A six year old boy who is severely allergic to peanuts had a blood transfusion. This triggered an allergic reaction. It turned out that some of the blood donors ate peanuts the night before they donated blood. This brings up a lot of questions about the safety of blood transfusions for kids who have severe food allergies. The situation happened in the Netherlands, last year, with a six year old boy who had leukemia. He received a transfusion of pooled platelets as part of treatment. Soon after receiving the blood transfusion, he developed a rash, his skin started swelling, his … Continue reading →

Save The Babies Foundation Works to Promote Newborn Screening

Newborn screening is a hot topic in this country whether you realize it or not. Most of us deliver our children and are never even aware of the testing that they go through within the first hours after birth. Every child born in the United States is tested for a variety of genetic conditions that need immediate treatment. Without that treatment permanent damage and even death can occur. So why would anyone be against newborn screening? The cost to the government, personal privacy issues, and the fear that the government keeps track of us all by the drop of blood … Continue reading →