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Tools and resources for preventing, diagnosing, and treating respiratory illnesses including the common cold, flu, RSV, and COVID-19.
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- Stay up-to-date on your vaccines
- Explore COVID-19 testing options or report a home antigen result
- Staying fit helps keep your energy up during pregnancy while reducing aches and pains and improving sleep. If you're not active, now's the time to start.
- Anesthesia is a way to control pain using anesthetic medicine. General anesthesia, which can be injected into a vein or inhaled, affects the entire body and makes the person unconscious. A person under general anesthesia is completely unaware of what is going on and does not feel pain during the surgery or procedure...
- It's important to know everything a baby needs before they arrive. Use Kaiser Permanente's baby checklist to make sure you don't miss any newborn essentials.
- Looks at depression in children and teens. Covers symptoms like anxiety, headaches, sleep problems, and lack of energy. Discusses treatment with therapy and medicines. Covers warning signs of suicide.
- Getting medical care during pregnancy is necessary for you and your baby to stay healthy. Find the right prenatal care here at Kaiser Permanente.
- Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are used to relieve pain and fever and to reduce swelling and inflammation caused by injury or diseases such as arthritis. Aspirin, ibuprofen, ketoprofen, and naproxen are commonly used NSAIDs. NSAIDs may cause side effects. The most common are stomach upset, heartburn, and...
- Common pregnancy symptoms include nausea, tender breasts, dizziness and mood swings. You may experience pregnancy symptoms two weeks after conception.
- Cold and heat therapies are treatments that use cold or heat to help with pain, soreness, muscle spasms, swelling, and inflammation. There are different ways you can do cold and heat therapies. For example, you might use an ice pack for cold...
- Good nutrition is key to having a healthy pregnancy and a healthy baby. Learn more about the best foods to eat while you're pregnant.
- Local anesthesia is a method to deliver pain control medicine to a specific area. It can be injected or applied to the skin or mucous membranes to numb an area and its surrounding tissues. Local anesthesia does not make the person sleepy or relieve other pains. But it may be used along with other medicines that have...
- Hand-washing is more than just running water over your hands. Washing your hands with soap and water is one of the best ways to prevent the spread of infections. It helps prevent diseases, such as colds, flu, and food poisoning. It's easy. It doesn't cost much. And it works. When should you wash your hands? Wash your...
- During weeks 5 to 8 of pregnancy, your baby’s brain and heart start to develop. Learn more about your baby’s development from Kaiser Permanente.
- When you're dealing with everyday problems, stress, or health issues, it's important to have people in your life who can give you support. You may need a shoulder to cry on or someone to talk to. It's also important to have social support when you're dealing with major life events or managing a serious health condition...
- Expecting twins or more? Having multiples means we'll need to see you for prenatal visits more often to make sure you and your babies are all doing well.
- Covers causes and symptoms of asthma in teens and adults. Includes info on avoiding triggers and treating attacks. Looks at treatment with controller medicine. Covers delivery systems that include metered-dose and dry powder inhalers and nebulizers.
- Calculating the due date of baby? Enter first day of your last period date into our due date calculator to get an idea of your baby's birthday!
- Explains what breastfeeding is, benefits, how to plan for it, and how often to breastfeed. Includes step-by-step instructions. Covers common problems and when to call for help.
- Your body is designed to give you pre-labor signs. Learn about the bloody show, water breaking, and other signs of labor from Kaiser Permanente.
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