You may be wondering whether or not it is safe for your body to exercise or perform rigorous workout sessions while on your period. In most cases, being on your period may make you want to avoid all activities in general, including exercise. The truth is, there is no scientific reason to avoid working out on your period. It may even have some benefits to help alleviate your symptoms. For more information on your health ...
Asthma often occurs in small children but sometimes does not develop until adulthood. When symptoms occur, the immune system views things like pollen, smoke, or dust mites as foreign substances and releases chemicals to fight them. These chemicals cause an asthma attack. Asthma attacks can cause wheezing, coughing, or difficulty breathing. Learn how to properly identify your asthma triggers and create a plan to manage them! Visit AFC Urgent Care Waltham today to get started ...
Vaccines are antigens that help trigger the body's immune system to respond to an attack from a particular disease organism. Therefore, parents and guardians need to present their wards for vaccination at the right time. The vaccine will help your children's bodies build immunity against the disease before it attacks their bodies. There are different vaccines that your child must take from birth up to the age of eighteen. AFC Urgent Care Waltham ...
The period is a normal phenomenon that every woman must experience during certain stages of her life. Looking at it in the actual sense, there is nothing normal about periods because why should women bleed during certain days every month? And not just bleed, but bleed through their private part! Well, as a woman, you get used to it, and it becomes a normal part of your life. But there are different types of periods ...
With all of the information that is out there, it can be easy to get confused when researching good nutrition. There is a lot of contradicting information which creates mistakes and confusion when it comes to nutrition and can impact your ability to achieve your goals. AFC Urgent Care Waltham is here to provide you with the health resources you need to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Learn more about common nutrition mistakes and call or ...
Lyme disease is a dangerous and somewhat less known condition. The disease is spread to humans after a tick bites them. A tick is a tiny arachnid and external parasite that lives off the host's blood. Once the tick bites a human, Lyme disease can be passed to them, but the symptoms may take time to appear. Most tick bites will usually cause a small red bite or bump around the area bitten, which ...
Mono or infectious mononucleosis is an infection caused by the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). It is often transferred through kissing, where an infected person exchanges bodily fluids with a non-infected person. This kissing disease is non-threatening and has a very low mortality rate. It is known to go away itself without much medical intervention, and regular medications can help drive symptoms away. However, a large percentage of affected individuals are not aware of the mono infections ...
Accidents and emergencies that require the urgent attention of a medical practitioner can happen. For instance, a pediatrician's attention is needed if your child has a sprained bone or an infection. However, if there is no available pediatrician and it is impossible going to the emergency room. In this case, the services of urgent pediatric care are needed. Pediatric urgent care is an additional medical service rendered by some hospitals to parents, allowing them ...
After two years of the pandemic, scientists have been able to narrow down a pretty specific list of COVID symptoms. As new variants were emerging, the symptoms changed slightly but never really changed. With fever being one of the clearest indications of an illness, why is it that not all cases include a fever? AFC Urgent Care Waltham provides COVID-19 testing to all patients. If you begin to feel a sickness coming on, visit our ...
For most people who have had COVID, their symptoms ease up within a few weeks of their exposure, and they don’t have any long-term impacts. However, some people have reported experiencing post-COVID conditions. If you are experiencing symptoms four or more weeks after your exposure, this is considered post-COVID. AFC Urgent Care Waltham provides COVID-19 testing to all patients. Make an appointment and visit our center if you are experiencing any flu-like symptoms. Common ...
