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Foot Care for People with Diabetes
Keeping your blood sugar at normal levels helps prevent foot problems. These include nerve damage, poor circulation, and infection. This video shows how to do daily foot care so you can help stop these complications from developing.
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Taking Care of Cuts and Scrapes
Cuts and scrapes are everyday occurrences, and most can be safely treated at home. Knowing how to clean and care for a cut yourself and when to seek a doctor’s care can help reduce infection and speed healing.
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HIV Home Care
Detailed information on HIV home care for your child
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Pressure Injuries
Bedsores can develop in a person who is bedridden or immobile. Pressure causes skin damage and breakdown. It can take days, weeks, or months to heal. It is important to prevent bedsores.
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Lacerations With Stitches
Stitches, also called sutures, are special types of thread that hold the edges of a wound together while it heals.
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Discharge Planning After Surgery
Once you leave the recovery room, you may be released to go home, or you may be moved to a hospital room. Here are questions to ask your doctor.
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Joint Replacement Surgery
Joint replacement is a surgical procedure to remove and replace an arthritic or damaged joint with an artificial joint, called a prosthesis.
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Living with a Colostomy: Tips for Maintenance and Daily Living
Some people with colorectal cancer or other bowel problems may need a colostomy. This is when surgery is done to change the way food wastes leave the body. Living with a colostomy is a major change. But knowing what to expect and how to deal with it can help you adjust.
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Puncture Wounds
A puncture wound is a deep wound made by a sharp object. This type of wound may become infected easily because dirt and germs are carried deep into the tissues.
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Life After Cancer: Lymphedema
Lymphedema is swelling in part of the body that may occur after cancer surgery or radiation. It's an ongoing (chronic) condition that has no cure. But you can do things to help reduce your risk for lymphedema.
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Burns: Symptom Management
Most children with burns have pain, which can be controlled with medicine. They also usually experience itching at some point during the healing process.
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Common First Aid Mistakes
Rather than helping, common first aid mistakes can make matters worse. Here are a few common first aid falsehoods and what you should do instead.
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Cuts and Wounds of the Mouth and Lips
Kids can get cuts and wounds in their mouth and on their lips when they are playing or doing sports. Learn how to use first aid for these injuries, and when to get medical care.
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Home Wound Care
Your child may come home with unhealed areas that still require dressing changes. You will be instructed on how to change dressings before you leave the hospital.
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Preventing MRSA in Athletes
MRSA most often causes minor skin infections in young athletes, but if untreated, the bacteria may invade the bloodstream and become a life-threatening infection.
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Amputation
An amputation is the surgical removal of a all or part of an arm or leg due to injury, infection, or injury.
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