Whats preventive care?
Preventive care means going to the doctor before you get sick. For instance, regular checkups can detect and help your doctor treat high blood pressure before it becomes a dangerous condition. Preventive care is happening when your doctor answers questions about nutrition or gives you tips on how to stop smoking. All the care you and your medical team invest in keeping you well is considered preventive care. Q: What’s well-baby care? A: Well-baby care is really a catchy phrase for preventive, primary care for children. Regular checkups ensure that your baby or child is developing properly. Importantly, checkups allow children to get their regularly scheduled immunizations, which prevent dangerous childhood diseases such as measles, polio or whooping cough. And of course, if your child is sick with a typical, non-emergency ailment such as an ear infection or strep throat, treatments are handled at a Brookdale Family Care Center. Q: What’s well-woman care? A: Well-woman care is preventiv
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