Vodicka Family Health and Wellness

08/05/2024

Don't forget your physicals!

01/12/2024

Join us for this completely FREE event with childcare and meals provided! There will be several workshops to choose from and a gallery walk with access to many resources (including information on Vodicka Health and Wellness) available within the Lemont and surrounding communities.

Located at Lemont High School's Performing Art Center - 800 Porter St, Lemont, IL 60439

Anyone requesting child care must sign up by January 27th. Hope to see you there!

Sign Up Link: https://forms.gle/9b9nfujqxzUtfm2F7

01/10/2024

Was so happy to be able to share in and support this amazing event.

11/22/2023

10/25/2023

Mind-blowing, but true. 🤯

📊 A third of antibiotic prescriptions written in medical offices are unnecessary, given for things such as viral infections that antibiotics can’t cure.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2518263

🗒 Half of the antibiotics prescribed to treat very common problems such as sore throats and ear infections shouldn’t be used because they’re “broad spectrum”—capable of killing many organisms and thus more likely than infection-specific “narrow spectrum” drugs to stimulate antibiotic resistance.
https://jamanetwork.com/.../jama.../article-abstract/2571613

Regardless of many studies like the above, medical misuse and overuse of antibiotics just keeps happening.

😲 One study estimates that antibiotic resistances kills 700,000 people worldwide per year. Yet, prescriptions for antibiotics are still being handed out like candy at a parade.

☝️ More is not better when it comes to antibiotics. They should only be used when absolutely necessary. Despite urging from the CDC to cut back on prescribing antibiotics, doctors have not changed their ways. The CDC has been running its “Get Smart About Antibiotics” program since the 1990s.
Yet inappropriate prescribing has barely budged.

🚫 Antibiotics are not a "quick fix" or "one-size-fits-all" cure for every ailment and should not be treated as such. Antibiotics can be life-saving in situations where they are absolutely warranted, but they should be used with extreme caution and patients should be informed of the risks and side-effects from their providers and offered alternatives, rather than be handed a script and sent out the door.

💊 Before accepting a prescription for antibiotics at your next Dr. visit, ask questions and exhaust all other options first. Don't accept the "easy way out" as the only way out.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/a-third-of-people-given-antibiotics-don-t-need-them?fbclid=IwAR2OC20Ty3TC9cVy6KQVLxndeot7OUN_UgEYYaQhtaMgD-UIfGOFLPt2R90