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If you want to prevent something from happening, you work to block it or stop it.
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Teach this saying to others.
It is easier, cheaper and safer to prevent problems than to wait until they are bigger problems.
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What is Cancer?
From IC4.
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What is Heart Disease?
From Mayo Clinic.
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- Shots or vaccines
- Pap smears
- Colonoscopies
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- Height and weight
- Blood pressure
- Mental health screens
- Blood sugar and cholesterol tests
- Vision or hearing exams
- Dental check-ups (video link)
- Mammograms (video link)
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- Thyroid blood tests and hearing tests if a person has Down syndrome
- Lung CAT scan to look for early lung cancer if a person smokes cigarettes
How do you decide what tests to do?
- Get correct info
- Weigh the pros and cons
- Ask the people you trust
- Build trust with your doctor
What are shots or vaccines?
- Germs are viruses or bacteria that cause an illness.
- Vaccines protect the body by blocking these germs.
- Each vaccine has a part of a dead or weak germ. It is injected or shot into your body.
- Inside your body, you make a reaction to the germ that was in the vaccine.
- Your body makes an antibody against the germ. Antibodies are the body's memory of germs.
- If that real live germ tries to enter the body in the future, the body remembers it. It sends an antibody to block the germ.
- Your body is now immune to that infection.
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Why Do We Get Vaccines?
From Sci Show Kids.
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Can babies and children tolerate so many shots?
From Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
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Info about vaccines: For people with a learning disability.
From National Health Service.