It’s 2009.You feel sick, so you go to the doctor.She checks your fever, looks at your throat, and asks what you’ve been thinking about lately.When you leave, she gives you some medicine, but also a list of thinking skills that you are supposed to practice daily.She says that the...
If your doctor suspects you have an infection, they will collect specimens to test for the presence of a pathogen. For example, they might collect a throat swab for strep throat or a urine sample for a urinary tract infection. Scientists incubate these samples to screen any organisms that gro...
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The lymph system is most familiar to people because doctors and mothers often check for "swollen lymph nodes" in the neck. It turns out that the lymph nodes are just one part of a system that extends throughout your body in much the same way your blood vessels do. The main difference ...
How to Do the Valsalva Maneuver Your doctor will tell you to: Sit down or lie down. Take a deep breath and hold it by closing your throat. Bear down hard, as if you’re trying to go to the bathroom. Strain hard for about 10 to 15 seconds. ...
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Normally, symptoms of strep throat are painful and uncomfortable. The symptoms can cause so much discomfort that you often have no choice but to visit a doctor to get remedies for your symptoms. Unfortunately, this can lead to an over-prescribing of antibiotics by doctors to treat the strep ...
If your symptoms linger or continue to come and go, you may have a chronic condition called long COVID. Because long COVID has many different signs and there's no test for it, it can be hard to diagnose. While the CDC defines long COVID as symptoms lasting 4 weeks, most doctors and...
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I haven’t had a child of mine test positive for strep throat in over three years. However, I am often asked about how to get rid of it for good when it keeps reoccurring. There’s actually a specific reason why someone will keep getting strep. There’s also a fairly simple answer ...