Your Healthy Family: Checking for ticks and prevent lyme disease
Ticks are most active during the warmer months. So what can you do to keep those little critters off of you this summer?
Posted at 8:49 AM, May 19, 2021
and last updated 2021-05-19 10:49:32-04
CLEVELAND, OHIO â With more people spending time outside during the pandemic, doctors say itâs important to keep an eye out for ticks â which can transmit Lyme disease.
âItâs actually good that more people are out doing things, being physically active and so forth, we just want them to be safe and want to encourage them to continue to do so,â said Alan Taege, MD, infectious disease specialist for Cleveland Clinic.
Your Healthy Family: Some things to consider before you take off your mask
Yes, if you are fully vaccinated and generally in good health, your risks from COVID-19 are much lower. But Dr. Barron says we need to think about more than our personal risks.
and last updated 2021-05-14 13:31:30-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â Earlier this week - on Wednesday May 12
th - I was able to speak with Dr. Michelle Barron, the senior medical director of infection prevention at UCHealth, about vaccine dosing and how a vaccine works differently in the body than medication.
I also happened to ask Dr. Barron her thoughts about wearing a mask, or not wearing a mask, after someone is vaccinated, from a strictly medical perspective. Her answers became more relevant after the CDC made their new mask recommendations for vaccinated people on Thursday, May 13th.
Your Healthy Family: Putting risk into perspective in a pandemic
We take risks every day, whether we think about them or not. When analyzing risk as it relates to death, yes, one death is too many, one death isnât something to be made light of or dismissed, but weighing risk in terms of chances of dying can help add perspective.
and last updated 2021-04-23 19:11:44-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â No matter what the final decision from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the Food and Drug Administration is regarding the use of the single dose Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine going forward, it s important to remember that all medications come with some risk factors.
Your Healthy Family: Springs woman improving in fight with debilitating neuromuscular disease
Donna explains when she was first diagnosed, âIt was very awkward and unusual. I would get fatigued in the most unusual ways. My coworkers and everyone thought I was drinking, or using drugs.
and last updated 2021-04-21 17:29:19-04
COLORADO SPRINGS â There s a new medical space in Colorado Springs that was gifted to UCHealth Memorial by an anonymous donor that is vastly improving the quality of life of patients by making critical treatments available locally, saving them the trip to Denver.
Itâs an Apheresis Suite, and is located in the new infusion center at UCHealth Memorial North Hospital in Colorado Springs. Apheresis is basically a process of collecting someoneâs blood, separating it into itâs base components, and then removing parts of the blood that may contain disease, or disease-provoking elements and then replacing it.