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Dream Feeding and How You Do It

Dream Feeding and How You Do It

Health CareThere are many important factors to remember when it comes to health care in the lives of infant babies. As a parent, you can help with good health care at home. Health care at home towards your baby mostly consists out of making sure that they eat well and get enough sleep. Dream feeding has been very proactive in getting parents to get their babies to sleep better through the night. A baby who is sleeping well also allows parents to get a healthy amount of sleep in during the night to be able to attend to the baby’s needs fully the next day. Dream feeding is known to help towards getting babies to sleep through the night and is also known as any big meal that is given to a baby during sleep or just after waking. To accomplish dream feeding, you need to hold the baby gently while sleeping in a feeding position and try to stimulate the rooting reflex, offering your baby a bottle. Many babies can feed this way without waking up. Newborn babies can awaken easily as they become hungry frequently. The best way to get more sleep in is if you go to bed right after the baby was fully fed. Which begs the question as to how well dream feeding works. Unfortunately, there has never been extensive research put into the practice of dream feeding. Many parents do admit that it works well for them and provides an overall better sleep pattern for the whole family. Getting a baby to sleep can sometimes cause unrest and difficulty to get them back to sleep. Being able to feed a baby without waking them is a great way for them to get sufficient sleep in while still being fed enough. [...]

4-Month-Old Baby Health Care Visits

4-Month-Old Baby Health Care Visits

Health CareWithin the beginning stages of parenthood, you will mostly be visiting your doctors due to the sleeping and eating problems of your newborn baby. Within four months, babies begin to show their personalities and the visits become more attributed towards physical and social development. A 4 month old sleep schedule is less likely to be taken up in medical terms. Issues arising from sleeping problems with 4-month-old babies are usually due to standard developing issues and nothing to worry about regarding their health. There are many schedules and advice articles to follow around sleeping problems with a 4-month-old baby. Here we will have a closer look at what to expect from health care visits to your doctor after 4 months. A discussion over your baby’s eating habits is more than likely to happen at around 4 months of age. The discussion will include whether solid foods will be fed to the baby soon. A physical exam will need to be done to ensure that the baby is developing and growing healthy and in a stable manner. The first thing that will be looked at with your visit after four months would be taking your baby’s measurement, length, weight, and head circumference. This is an important visit and will be positive to see their development so far. Soon the doctors will examine the baby’s strength and movement. Examining whether the baby can recognize their name and whether they can transfer an object from one hand to the other. Safety is always a big concern for new parents. The doctor will ask whether the parents have babyproofed their home and whether they are using the right safety devices when driving and feeding. These are the most common visits that you can expect when your baby reaches around 4 months of age. [...]

How Covid-19 is Affecting Health Care Workers

How Covid-19 is Affecting Health Care Workers

Health CareThe COVID-19 pandemic has put a major strain on the capacity of admissions hospitals can care for, especially in ICU units that are fully packed worldwide. Despite exhaustion from working around the clock due to the overwhelming amounts of hospital admissions, health care workers have been working nonstop. Other than being exhausted from long stressful hours there are many other bad elements that are affecting health care workers. Fear of getting infected or transferring the virus onto family and friends has been a major stress point for health care workers. With certain facilities being overwhelmed more than others some health care workers needed to relocate to those facilities to help with new admissions from Covid-19 infections. In some of the overwhelmed areas, health care workers had to volunteer to work in areas they are not familiar with, this causing more tension and anxiety in their daily lives. The fear that health care workers had to face with the possibilities of infecting family members made them isolate for months away from their families. Many of the workers lost wages due to missed learning opportunities, potentially delayed certification, and missed exams. As health care workers are already prone to be at risk for anxiety, burnout, insomnia, and depression, the effect of Covid-19 on their current lives has not been an easy task to handle. Health care workers have been working around the clock to ensure the best medical attention for patients and being in contact with patients’ families about progress reports. [...]

Why US Health Care is so Expensive

Why US Health Care is so Expensive

Health Care / Medical Device CompaniesThe pressure on the US health care system has never been worse than now. Due to the COVID-19 virus, there is an urgent need for testing and treatment for the virus. Due to the virus causing a pandemic, it does not matter whether you have a medical aid or not, all infected citizens receive hospital care if they need it. Regular medical care is not possible to operate as it used to be due to the increase in hospital visits that arose from the Covid-19 infections. Long before the pandemic, the US health care system has been at the forefront of the medical industry, providing its citizens with quality health care assistance in hospitals. Although recent surveys state that life expectancy in the US is estimated at 78.8 years and other high-income countries are estimated at between 80.7 to 83.9 years, the US still has a high-level health care system. One of the main reasons as to why health care costs have gone up is due to the rise in drug costs. In the US, citizens pay up to four times as much as other industrialized countries for pharmaceutical drugs. The US government does not regulate drug prices in the same way that other countries such as Europe do. This causes the government to pay up to $1,443 per citizen. In some of the other prosperous countries, the government pays around $749. In the US, doctors and nurses are paid more than in most countries. The average US doctor earns $218,173 a year. With specialists making up to $316,000 per year, we can see how much goes towards doctors and specialists. Nurses are paid around $74,250 compared to $58.041 in Switzerland. With higher payments towards medicine, we can see that it contributes a lot to the high costs in health care. Whereas the higher salaries for doctors and nurses also add to the higher cost of health care. [...]

The Benefits of Medical Devices

The Benefits of Medical Devices

Health Care / Medical Device CompaniesMedical device companies have been making certain procedures easier for hospitals by providing medical devices that can be extremely helpful in getting tests and surgeries done quicker. In personal homes, these devices have made problems easier to handle including underlining conditions of patients who are living at home who need to be attended to by nurses, family members, or friends. Here we will have a look at how these devices are helping patients all over the spectrum. Patient monitoring has improved greatly due to devices that can help monitor. These are essential equipment that any hospital must always have. For doctors and nurses to be able to make the best medical decisions for their patients they need to know what the condition of the patient is always. Patient monitoring devices help to provide information to them in real-time and help to make better decisions to suit the certain patient’s health. With medical devices innovation came Telesurgery. It is a way in which a surgeon can conduct medical operations using telecommunication technology without traveling. The use of 5G and robots have made this possible. Throughout China, Spain, and India, surgeons have been using 5G connectivity on surgical robots to conduct surgery from remote areas. Early diagnosis is another great advantage towards medical devices. Some of the new medical devices can make it easier for hospitals to detect severe conditions much earlier than before. This provides doctors the ability to prescribe the right treatment before symptoms advance too far to treat. With some diseases, it has always been difficult for patients to get to the hospital and see doctors. Now, with advancements in medical devices and telemedicine, doctors use telecommunications to be able to professionally diagnose patients who can’t make it to the doctors. This has made everything a lot easier for hospitals in order not to be overcrowded and being able to use technology instead of traveling and getting real-time updates on patients’ conditions. [...]

Top Five Medical Device Companies in the World

Top Five Medical Device Companies in the World

Medical Device CompaniesThe medical device industry is a rapidly growing market giving focus towards a healthier life and quality of health. The rapid growth can be due to the high demand from the complex needs of patients and life science companies. The market has grown to nearly $457 Billion in the past two years. Here we look at the 5 most well-known medical device companies in the world in no particular order. Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson’s medical devices include a range of products that are widely used in surgery, eye health, and orthopedic health fields. Founded in 1886 by Robert Wood Johnson and his brothers, it is one of the leading medical companies in the world. Starting out with producing surgical dressings for hospitals they now cover many spectrums around medicine and health care. Their headquarters are based in New Jersey in the USA. Siemens Healthlineers Siemens Healthlineers was founded by Werner von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske in Berlin in 1847. Their company is a mother company for several other medical device companies in the world. The company’s first invention was made by Werner von Siemens, and it was called the pointer telegraph. Its headquarters are in Germany, and they employ over 45,000 people. Medtronic The company was founded in 1949 by Earl Baker and Palmer Hermundslie in Ireland. Its headquarters are based in Minnesota Canada. The majority of its profits are gained from the USA by trading medical devices. The company started out as a medical equipment repair shop and later grew into one of the most successful medical device companies in the world. Medtronic operates in more than 140 countries and employs over 86,000 people. Boston Scientific Boston Scientific provides the majority of its focus towards interventional treatment medical devices. The company was found in 1979 in Massachusetts. Soon after starting up, they acquired many other tech companies in the medical industry and grew into the powerhouse medical device company they are today. They are known for being an outstanding company to work for and employ people from over 130 countries. Phillips Phillips was found in 1891 by father and son Frederick and Gerard Phillips. The company has its headquarters in Amsterdam and is a Dutch corporation. Since they started up, they have been producing electronic equipment over 2 main sectors being lighting and healthcare. They operate across 100 countries employing about 74,000 people. [...]

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4-Month-Old Baby Health Care Visits
How Covid-19 is Affecting Health Care Workers
Why US Health Care is so Expensive
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