Breastfeeding: Big Questions and Local Answers

Breastfeeding is a big part of motherhood during the early stages of your baby’s life. Even if you know how important this choice is for your baby, breastfeeding can be difficult to get right at the beginning and there can be struggles even experienced moms face. The good news is that Seton Medical Center Harker Heights has a team dedicated to helping moms have the best breastfeeding experience possible.

Heat Exhaustion and Heat Stroke: Protecting Your Child

Developing a heat-related illness is one of the biggest hazards for children, especially those who participate in sports and other activities in extreme heat. As August temperatures rise here in Central Texas, so does the risk of developing heat exhaustion and heat stroke. You know heatstroke and heat exhaustion are threats to your child, but do you understand the difference?

Milk Matters: Simple Ways to be Healthy While Breastfeeding

Breastmilk contains an abundant variety of nutrients that provides everything a baby needs during those first months. But what about mom?

In addition to taking care of the baby, a breastfeeding mom needs to keep up with her own health through smart eating habits to ensure both she and the baby are feeling great and getting everything they need!

Surviving a summer pregnancy in Central Texas

Being pregnant in the summer is no walk in the park, especially in Central Texas.

During the warmer months especially, pregnant women are at risk for dehydration and heat exhaustion (which can lead to heat stroke). The most common signs of heat exhaustion include headache, dizziness, pale skin, profuse sweating, weakness and fainting. Women experiencing symptoms that last longer than one hour should seek immediate medical treatment.

Here are some quick and easy solutions you can do to help you get yourself through those hot summer days and nights:

Lifesaving Habits for Child Car Safety

Every year children around the country are put in dangerous situations when they are left inside a vehicle. An average of 38 children die from heat related illnesses after being left inside a vehicle every year. This is usually due to adults forgetting their child, children finding their own way into a car or children being intentionally left in the car.

Benefits of having a summer garden

Feeling stressed or anxious? Get gardening! A quiet morning or afternoon spent gardening can save you cash, contribute to a healthy weight and relax the mind and body. Read more about the benefits of tending the garden below.

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#AlpacaTheHope: Wellstone Employee Pays it Forward to Families Battling Childhood Cancer

What is your purpose?

For Kati Davenport, APRN, it is her commitment to supporting children and families across the nation who have been affected by pediatric cancer.

Davenport’s son, Declan, was 13 years old when he was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare and aggressive form of bone cancer.

Declan received 17 rounds of high dose chemotherapy and 41 rounds of radiation to his left pelvis at MD Anderson in Houston. Declan finished his cancer treatments in 2018 and the soon-to-be sophomore high school student is enjoying school, working and playing golf.

A Guide to Men's Health Screenings

Sometimes making checkup appointments and seeing the eye doctor doesn’t feel all that important. Health screenings get pushed to the next year or worse, are simply never thought about. However, getting screenings is one the most essential things a man can do for his health. If you don’t know about a problem, you can’t make it better and you can possibly lose the window of opportunity to improve or even save your life. So, break out the date book and get ready to schedule some screenings.

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Harker Heights Man Pleased with Skin Cancer Removal Surgery at Seton Harker Heights

For over ten years, Robert Crouch had an unusual skin irritation on his left ear.

“It would bleed all the time and it was hard to cover up,” Crouch shared. “I would always have to put creams on it and I was afraid for people to see it. It would flair up and I thought it was some kind of skin irritation, so I’d clean it up, put on cortisone cream and it would go away for a while.”

The skin irritation looked like a cluster of small popped blood vessels and would always return, traveling to other parts of his ear.

Staging Parkinson’s Disease

Parkinson's disease is a progressive brain disorder that gradually breaks down or kills certain nerve cells (neurons) in the brain. Parkinson’s causes abnormal brain activity, leading to symptoms that impact movement and more. The signs and symptoms associated with Parkinson’s may vary in their severity between patients. Although there is no cure for the disease, staging Parkinson’s helps doctors diagnose, control and improve symptoms.

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