Thursday, April 11, 2013
It's wise to look for ticks on yourself and your children and pets after being outdoors.
Among the budding flowers and greening grass, another sign of spring has arrived. Tick season. The evidence? Two ticks, one on each of my dogs, I found this week. One dog had a tick on her snout, the other dog had a tick on her head that I found while petting her. Both ticks were about the size of a pinhead, and attached, but not yet engorged. I was able to remove them, and promptly gave both dogs a dose of K9 Advantix, which my husband I had stopped using for a few months this winter. I also checked the rest of the dogs' bodies for more ticks, finding none. With evidence that tick season is here (at least in Wayland where I live), it's a good reminder to check yourself, your children and your pets after being outdoors. The Centers for …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
A new strain of the ‘Winter Vomiting Bug’ has reached the United States, but it has not caused any unusual norovirus numbers here in Concord.
Much has been said about the nasty flu season that’s upon us. Meanwhile, the norovirus, or winter vomiting bug, has also been making its rounds. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the norovirus is responsible for about 70,000 hospitalizations and 800 deaths each year, and a new strain has reached the United States this year. Common symptoms of the so-called winter vomiting bug include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and stomach pains. “Norovirus cases often increase in winter, when people are inside and in close contact,” Concord Public Health Director Susan Rask wrote in an email to Patch. “That being said, we don’t have any evidence of an unusual number of cases in Concord this winter.” A new norovirus …
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
CDC offers tips on keeping extreme cold at bay.
The National Weather Service predicts Concord will feel some of the coldest temperatures of the season during the next 72 hours. An arctic blast of frigid air will cause evening temperatures to drop into the single digits and daytime highs will struggle to get out of the teens. "This will definitely be the coldest weather so far this season, and perhaps even colder than anything observed last winter," according to the NWS. The U.S. Center’s for Disease Control & Prevention’s brochure, entitled “EXTREME COLD: A Prevention Guide to Promote Your Personal Health & Safety,” provides a number of tips people can use to help combat the cold and its effects on homes, cars and people this week.
Friday, January 11, 2013
Being healthy and safe is just minutes away.
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Friday, January 11
The following text was compiled from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tip sheets: "Being healthy and safe takes commitment, but it doesn’t have to be time-consuming," says the CDC. "Most things are so simple and take so little time, that you’ll wonder why you’ve been avoiding them." According to the CDC, we have 1,440 minutes in the day. Here are some quick tips that will only take away 1 to 5 of those minutes: One Minute or Less for Health Five Minutes or Less for Health More Than Five Minutes and Worth It WOBURN PATCH: Facebook | Twitter | E-mail Updates | Pinterest | Instagram
