Health Tip: Protect Your Head After Concussion
A sudden and forceful impact to the head can cause the brain to slosh around inside the skull. This can injure the brain, including blood vessels and nerves. When the injury leads to a temporary loss of normal brain function, it's called a concussion.
Symptoms may include: poor memory, headaches, dizziness and irritability.
After a concussion, protection of the head is crucial to preventing additional injury.
Most people with a new concussion will need to wait at least several weeks before resuming normal activities, says the Nemours Foundation.
Your doctor can tell you when it's safe to resume sports or normal exercise, the foundation says. Depending on the person and severity of the injury, some people will take longer to recover, and may require rehabilitation.
Health Tip: Prevent Problems With Contact Lenses
Wearing contact lenses requires precautions to protect your eyes from infection.
The University of Michigan Kellogg Eye Center offers these suggestions on how to care for contact lenses:
* Always wash your hands before handling your lenses or touching your eyes.
* Never let anyone else wear your lenses.
* Only take lenses in and out as prescribed by your doctor -- don't put them in and remove them repeatedly throughout the day.
* Only purchase lenses that your doctor has prescribed. Avoid so-called "fashion" lenses or purchasing any lenses from someone other than a reputable source.
* Replace lenses regularly on the schedule prescribed by your doctor.
* Clean lenses thoroughly and regularly as recommended by your doctor.
* Throw away disposable lenses. Don't try to sterilize or re-use them.
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