If you have a chronic illness -- such as diabetes, arthritis or heart disease -- you can take an active role in managing your health.
The American Academy of Family Physicians offers these self-management guidelines:
- Examine your unhealthy behaviors, and choose which ones you'd like to change.
- Create specific goals and an action plan for how you'll reach those goals.
- Create backup plans -- for example, what you'll do for exercise when the weather is bad.
- Feel confident in your ability to reach your goals; if they seem too tough, reconsider your goals.
- Check in frequently with your doctor to discuss your progress and any problems.
Health Tip: Infections May Strike Bones
Osteomyelitis is a bone infection usually caused by bacteria or, less often, a fungus.
The U.S. National Library of Medicine says these factors increase your risk of developing osteomyelitis:
- Being diabetic.
- Undergoing hemodialysis.
- Injecting drugs.
- Having a poor supply of blood.
- Having had a recent trauma.
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