Archive for July, 2009
Plan B One-Step
Hey, check this out… Back on 6/12/09 (one of my first posts!), I mentioned in my “When All Else Fails…There’s Plan B!” article that OTC Plan B will soon be available for sale for women 17 years of age and older (right now it’s for ladies 18 and over). It turns out that [...]
Sex Ed 101
Here is Nova -back on the soap box… I have to put this in its own little article because I think it is sooo important. Did you know that right now in the United States, for any school to get federal funding for sex ed. –they need to teach an ABSTINENCE ONLY program. [...]
OTC Cough and Cold Medicine for Babies
I have been meaning to shoot you this post for a while now, but I keeping forgetting to do so… Just about every night I work, I have a parent or family member call or approach me at the pharmacy asking for a cough and cold medication for their child that is less than [...]
Chapstick Addiction
Hi all! Has anyone ever had an addiction to ChapStick®? We’re talking the classic ChapStick® that has been around for forever and a day. Well, I had a discussion with my aunt while I was visiting friends and family in Maine last week about my cousin having an addiction to ChapStick®. No, she [...]
How to Treat a Minor Wound
Now that you have seen my mom’s spider bite wound (see my article called “Itsy Bitsy Spider Bite” for a picture of it – it’s pretty cool!), we can discuss how to take care of the site. This topic came up because my mom was curious as to how she should clean her wound. [...]
Genital Herpes and You
Herpes….okay, let’s get it all straightened out.. Herpes simplex virus –there are two different strains. The first one is HSV-1 which typically causes cold sores and then HSV-2 which causes genital herpes. It is possible to transfer a cold sore to the genital area and transfer genital herpes to the lip area. Genital herpes [...]
Gardasil and HPV
So, when the Gardisil (HPV vaccine) came out, I thought –great! Some human papillomavirus (HPV) strains cause cervical cancer and now there is a vaccine…. Then, a few weeks ago, I attended a class to be trained and certified to give vaccines. That is when I started to really look into HPV, the link to [...]
Question of the Day on the Home Page
Hey all! As I have mentioned before, I really like the Question of the Day page. So I thought I’d post the new ones on this page for easy access! Our topics come from questions we get from our friends, family, patients and users of this site (through email and comments) and our own [...]
The Whole Story on Breastfeeding Your Baby
I have never been in a room with more lactating women than when I went to my friend Emily’s surprise 30th birthday party yesterday…half, yes half of the ladies in the room could provide breast milk if you needed it! We had plenty of discussions surrounding the act of breastfeeding, but what I thought [...]
Boric Acid for Yeast Infection
When I lived in Miami, I had a regular patient (aka Janet) that would come in and talk with me about her dogs (my favorite subject!) She had been in New York for a few weeks for work. Before she had left for her trip, she had picked up a prescription for Diflucan (fluconazole)-a [...]
