The Centers for Disease Control officially approved the Pfizer vaccine for children 5-11 Tuesday. The ABC15 Health Insider is addressing concerns and questions some parents have before getting their children vaccinated.
Many experiencing long-term brain fog after COVID-19 diagnosis
Some people are experiencing long-term brain fog after a coronavirus diagnosis.
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That fuzzy, confusing, light-headed feeling that some people who have had COVID just can t seem to shake also known as brain fog. Brain fog is not a medical term, but we ve all felt it, right? says ABC15 Health Insider Dr. Janice Johnston with Redirect Health. We ve taken an antihistamine or maybe something that s a sedating kind of drug. Or maybe feeling a little under the weather or jet-lagged, or that kind of thing?
Dr. Johnston explains that feeling typically goes away once you start feeling better, but for some, the brain fog has a hard time clearing up. Dr. Johnston tells us there are a number of factors.
New parenting trends and fertility options post-pandemic
From same-sex couples to those waiting to have children later in life, Dr. Bashah says parenting trends are changing.
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When in-person fertility treatments were suspended at the height of the COVID-19 lockdown, hopeful parents-to-be were forced to wait even longer for another chance to get pregnant.
Many IVF patients lost hope. With IVF, there s a lot of hormones that are being pumped into the women s bodies and injections that you have to do routinely and timed things and medications that you have to take. And it can be really invasive to the body.
Breaking the stigma of pre-existing conditions and the COVID-19 vaccine
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimate that as many as 130 million Americans could have a pre-existing condition that s half of all non-elderly adults in the United States.
That status may impact your COVID-19 vaccine eligibility in places like Pinal and Coconino counties here in Arizona, but the stigmas and shame surrounding that could have a negative impact on the vaccination process.
Asthma, cancer, high blood pressure, diabetes these are all things that would be considered pre-existing conditions. If you have one, it impacts your health every single day, but even more during this COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, these conditions could play a big role in whether or not you re able to recover.