Adult CF: Maintaining Good Nutrition
CF can affect how your body absorbs nutrients and fats. Good nutrition can help counteract some of these problems. Learn about how to get the healthy nutrition you need.
CF can affect how your body absorbs nutrients and fats. Good nutrition can help counteract some of these problems. Learn about how to get the healthy nutrition you need.
Obesity can increase your risk for many serious health issues. These include problems with your heart, lungs, blood vessels, brain, and joints.
A mammogram is a series of X-rays of breast tissue that is usually done to screen for breast cancer. Your health care provider will explain your mammogram results.
People with OCPD have a very strong need for order, perfection, and control. They pay an unusual amount of attention to details, lists, organization, and schedules. OCPD is different than obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD.
Pain in a woman’s vulva is called vulvodynia. Some women feel pain in a specific spot. Others may feel pain in different areas or over the whole area.
If you feel down most days or are having problems with appetite or sleep, you may have depression. Depression is as real and serious an illness as heart failure. But depression is treatable.
Know what puts you at risk for heart disease. Learn what changes can help control your risk. Then start with one change that you think might be easiest for you.
With an ectopic pregnancy, the growing egg in the fallopian tube can cause the tube to burst (rupture). This can lead to severe bleeding if it is not found early and treated.
Metabolic syndrome is a diagnosis made when you have 3 or more risk factors from a set of 5. But you can take action to control these factors.
Chemotherapy medicines can be harmful if they touch skin. So you need to make sure caregivers and others close to you are not exposed to body fluids during a treatment and for up to 48 hours afterward.