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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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- Manage your symptoms from home
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- Explore COVID-19 testing options or report a home antigen result
- Breastfeeding can be a bonding experience for you and your baby. Discover all the benefits and advantages of breastfeeding from 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...
- Making a birth plan is a great way to learn your options and share them with us. Use Kaiser Permanente's birth plan template to get started.
- Severe dehydration means: Your mouth and eyes may be extremely dry. You may pass little or no urine for 12 or more hours. You may not feel alert or be able to think clearly. You may be too weak or dizzy to stand. You may pass out. Severe dehydration is a medical emergency and requires emergency treatment. Call or other...
- The importance of after-delivery care cannot be disregarded. After giving birth, a woman's body goes through changes, a period that lasts up to 8 weeks.
- Read Kaiser Permanente's tips for getting to know your new baby and learning how to calm a crying baby. Try these parent-approved baby soothing tips.
- What are immunizations? Immunizations help keep you and your child from getting certain diseases that can be spread to other people (infectious diseases). They also help reduce the spread of disease to others and prevent epidemics. Immunizations are also called vaccines or vaccinations. If you get a vaccine, it may not...
- You will need some time to recover after giving birth. Find out what to expect as you recover in the hospital and after you go home with baby.
- Feeding your baby is one of the first things to do when you get back from the hospital. Learn about breastfeeding, bottle-feeding, and formula feeding.
- Amazing changes are happening in your newborn's development. Babies' brains develop quickly, as they begin to think, learn, and remember. Newborns listen to and learn the sounds of language. They can communicate with sounds and facial expressions.
- 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.
- Covers causes and symptoms of high blood pressure. Explains systolic and diastolic pressure numbers. Looks at treatment and prevention steps. Includes risks of untreated high blood pressure such as heart attack, stroke, and kidney failure.
- Common pregnancy symptoms include nausea, tender breasts, dizziness and mood swings. You may experience pregnancy symptoms two weeks after conception.
- 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...
- Many new parents aren't sure what to expect during labor and delivery. Learn about the experience of giving birth to a baby from Kaiser Permanente.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Emotional during pregnancy? Ups and downs are inevitable, so it's important to know how to deal with them and ask for support when you need it.
- 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...
- 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.
- Antibodies are proteins made by the body's natural defense system (immune system) to fight foreign substances, such as bacteria. Antibodies attach themselves to the foreign substance, allowing other immune system cells to attack and destroy the substance. The surfaces of viruses, fungi, and bacteria contain markers...
- 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.
- 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!
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