Category: diseases

+ diseases, infant and maternal health, pregnancy

Save a Life- Spread the Word About Sickle Cell Disease and Pregnancy

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Sickle cell disease made the news earlier this year when rapper Prodigy died from complications related to SCD this past June at the age of 42.  It’s actually very common among African-Americans with 1 in 13 being carriers for the disease and 1 in 365 having sickle cell disease. There are other ethnic groups that are frequently affected as well. In some parts of Central … Read More Save a Life- Spread the Word About Sickle Cell Disease and Pregnancy

+ breastfeeding, Breastfeeding benefits, breastfeeding problems, classes, diseases, infant and maternal health

Becoming A Milk Donor

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    Today I am officially a milk donor. After one phone interview, two paperwork packets, a visit to the rural health clinic, a blood test, 100+ oz. of milk, and several calls to FedEx Peri Ship, my donation arrived and was accepted today. I first started to consider becoming a milk donor during my breastfeeding educator certification when I did a handout on … Read More Becoming A Milk Donor

+ Breastfeeding benefits, diseases, infant and maternal health

Let Me Ruin Your Day- Let’s Talk About Pertussis

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Part of me feels like I should be saying, “Sorry!!!” for brining up this issue. No one really wants to hear about it. On the other hand, a bigger part of me thinks, “Why should I be sorry for telling people about an actual health threat that is backed up by current medical research and isn’t widely discussed? After all, it could potentially save … Read More Let Me Ruin Your Day- Let’s Talk About Pertussis

+ diet and health, diseases, Is it safe???

Public Health Mythbusters Edition: Raw Milk, Friend or Foe?

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The last twenty years have not been kind to Louis Pasteur. He ordered that his laboratory notebooks be withheld from outsiders, but in the 1970’s one of his heirs left them to the Bibilotheque Nationale in Paris. In the mid-1990’s a researcher from Princeton went through the notebooks and then wrote a book on what he found. Since then embarrassing revelation after embarrassing revelation … Read More Public Health Mythbusters Edition: Raw Milk, Friend or Foe?

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