Monday, August 19, 2013

By Kelli Lagesonkelli.lageson@albertleatribune.com

The next project the Naeve Health Care Foundation wants to tackle is to help replace all the call light systems in the hospital at Mayo Clinic Health Sys-tem in Albert Lea.

Its main fund-raiser is coming up in September when it hosts a gala at Wedgewood Cove Golf Club. Gala committee member and nursing man-ager at the hospital,

Joy Shaft, said the fundraiser is going toward a worthy cause.

“Our goal is to be proactive,” Shaft said.

The hospital’s cur-rent system, made by Executone, is more than 15 years old. It allows pa-tients in any hos-pital room to call a nurse for general needs or problems or for emergency help. While it’s still functioning, it’s be-coming outdated.

“There’s noth-ing wrong with our

system,” Shaft said. “Due to its age, it’s becoming more dif-ficult to get replace-ment parts.”

The new system the hospital hopes to buy is about $650,000 and is made by Responder 5. Shaft said that manufacturer’s product has many features that will be useful to patients and hospital staff.

“It’s an easy-to-use, portable sys-tem,” Shaft said.

With the hospital’s

Gala to fundraise for new equipment

Kelli Lageson/Albert Lea TribuneNursing Manager Joy Shaft demonstrates using the Executone system that patients use to call nurses at Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea. The hospital is hoping to update the system within the next year.

An Executone system connects remotes in patient rooms to the nursing desk throughout Mayo Clinic Health System. The hospital is hoping to update to a newer call system.

Money raised will help purchase new call light system for hospital wing

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If you goWhat: Naeve

Health Care Foundation gala

When: starts at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 21

Where: Wedge-wood Cove Golf

Over the next few weeks, students will be returning to their classrooms for another school year. This can be a hectic time for students and parents: The to-do list may include health checkups, getting children into a sleep routine, planning healthy lunches or prepar-ing students facing major transitions into a new grade or school. Mayo

Clinic experts offer these tips on how to make the transition back to school less stressful.

VaccinesDr. Robert Jacob-

son, Mayo Clinic Children’s Center pediatrician and vaccine specialist, advises parents to ensure their child has recommended vaccinations and be aware of changes to those recommenda-

tions. For example, children can now be vaccinated for human papillomavi-rus, at age 11, rather than having to wait until they are 16 years of age. This change will make it easier for busy children to get their three doses of the vaccine within the recommended six months.

Some vaccines are now more easily

Mayo Clinic experts giveback-to-school health tips

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remind staff to reassess after ad-ministering pain medication,” Shaft said. “We can set it up to do a variety of different things.”

The call system will likely be re-placed in the next year. Shaft said Mayo Clinic looks at the age of all its equipment with an effort to update items sooner rather

than later.“We’ve had this on

our radar for several years,” Shaft said.

Because of the project’s size and how it will affect the entire hospi-tal, Naeve Health Care Foundation members thought it would be a good one to support for its annual fundraising efforts. The founda-tion has previously helped purchase an

ambulance, cardiac and mammography equipment and up-dated the hospital’s dining area.

“The foundation’s always looking for an opportunity for their resources to be spent on that af-fects every area of the hospital,” Shaft said.

The founda-tion plans to give $200,000 toward the $650,000 goal.

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being and ability to learn, said Dr. Suresh Kotagal, pediatric sleep ex-pert at Mayo Clinic Children’s Center. Adapting healthy sleep habits prior to the start of school could help students get the required rest they need. Kotagal said it is important to establish a bed-time routine to help children fall asleep and get a good night’s rest. He said children rest better if they skip caffeine after dinner, get reg-ular exercise, turn off electronic de-vices an hour before

bedtime and silence phones so text mes-sages or alerts don’t disrupt sleep. In ad-dition, imposing an early bedtime on the weekends will make Monday mornings easier to deal with.

Healthy snacksIt’s important for

children to develop healthy eating and snacking habits at an early age to help avoid obesity. Katherine Zeratsky, a registered dieti-cian at Mayo Clinic, recommends hav-ing a variety of healthy snacks on hand so children can learn to make good

choices. She said having “anytime” snacks easily avail-able for children, such as storing healthy snacks in a designated area that children know they can eat when they are hungry without having to ask per-mission, will help. These options allow children to feel em-powered and helps them practice mak-ing healthy choices, Zeratsky said.

AnxietyA new year at

school can be an exciting yet stress-ful time, especially for students start-

Experts: Back-to-school health tipsContinued from Front Page

Plastic surgery may only seem like something wealthy celebrities do to maintain a youthful ap-pearance, but plastic surgery is available to everyone and is performed right here in Albert Lea.

“There are two reasons patients generally choose to have plastic surgery: medical neces-sity and cosmetic

improvement,” said Dr. Matthew Camp, plastic sur-geon on the Albert

Lea campus of Mayo Clinic Health System in Albert Lea and Austin. “Rebuild-ing people’s bodies after

trauma, cancer or massive weight loss is considered medical necessity. Facial rejuvenation, breast augmenta-tion, tummy tucks

and breast lifting are considered cosmetic improvement.”

Camp offers a wide range of services including breast sur-gery, tummy tucks, liposuction, nose reshaping, chemi-cal peels, facial reconstruction, scar repair and more. Anyone consider-ing plastic surgery should understand the risks as well as the benefits.

“All surgery entails recuperation time

MatthewCamp

Plastic surgeon offers variety of services in Albert Lea

This year, co-workers, families and friends across the country are making every step count in the fight against diabetes. Your steps can count too.

Step Out: Walk to Stop Diabetes, the American Dia-betes Association’s signature fundrais-ing walk, has been taking place for more than 20 years. Participants walk as individuals or as a team that can come in sizes of two or more. The many faces of Step Out all contribute to a com-munity committed to doing their part to prevent and cure diabetes once and

for all, including Red Striders, walk-ers living with type 1, type 2 or gesta-tional diabetes. They are a reminder of why we walk.

One particular Red Strider walking this year is Heather Berg, the associa-tion’s 2013 National Youth Advocate diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 10. Her earliest experience with the disease, however, came a year and a half earlier when her younger brother was diagnosed with diabetes at only 14 months old. While she and her brother were very young when they were first diagnosed, the fight

to Stop Diabetes was more than a move-ment to Heather and her family — it was a mission.

“I’ve been part of the association’s teen advocacy pro-grams for six years now and have at-tended several local Step Out walks as a volunteer, doing ev-erything from hand-ing out refresh-ments and granola bars to cheering on all of our diabetes champions at the finish line,” Berg said.

By participating in Step Out, Berg has raised more than $30,000 to help stop diabetes. She will walk again this October with the

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Moms do all they can to prepare their kids for a healthy transition from summer vacation to the new school year, which brings new teachers, home-work and demand-ing sports practices. But, when gearing up for the transition, there is one thing moms might be forgetting to pro-tect their children against: potentially fatal meningococcal

disease.While parents may

have grades and car-pools on the mind, they should know that meningococcal disease is the result of a rare, but serious bacterial infection that can progress very rapidly and take the life of an other-wise healthy person in as little as one day. Symptoms that par-ents and their teens should watch out for could include stiff neck, fever, lethargy, sensitivity to light, ir-

ritability, headaches and vomiting.

With school in session, kids are go-ing to bed later and waking up earlier; the resulting fatigue may raise the risk of meningococcal disease, possibly by weakening the immune system. Common activi-ties such as sharing water bottles and utensils can also facilitate the spread of the disease. As fall sports season approaches, student

athletes can be at greater risk of expo-sure to meningococ-cal disease, since cramped locker rooms and long bus trips can increase the risk of exposure to the germs.

To help raise awareness about the serious conse-quences of menin-gococcal disease and urge parents to take action and vaccinate against the disease, the National Association of School Nurses,

School days mean long hours studying indoors, exercising students’ brains but not their bodies. While classroom learning is the cor-nerstone of educa-tion, it’s important to remember that physical activity sup-ports overall well-ness. Keeping kids moving can even boost brain func-tion, improving their grades along with their muscles.

The U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Human Services recommends that all people age 6 and older engage in 60 minutes of daily physical activity. This advice comes as many physical

education programs have been reduced, cut or simply not required.

During a break in busy schedules, rather than allow-ing kids to gravitate toward TV, tablets or the computer, en-courage them to stay active with these Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals-approved tips:

1. Understand children’s motivators

Recognize that different age groups have differ-ent fitness drives, according to the ex-perts at Duke Chil-dren’s Hospital in Durham, N.C. For young kids, variety is key. Obstacle

courses, scavenger hunts and timed re-lays keep their bod-ies and minds ac-tive. Teens can stay fit by developing a skill and tracking improvement over time. Help them set small goals each week and track im-provements, so you can both be proud

of their progress as the weeks zoom by.

2. Get active, exercise restraint

Keeping kids active is just as much about getting them moving as it is removing men-tal obstacles, said Meagan Young, a lifestyle program

specialist at Jane-way Children’s Hospital in New-foundland, Canada. Setting limits on TV and video games is a good place to start. TV-time tokens — tokens kids earn each day that can be exchanged for TV or computer time — provide kids flex-

ibility and freedom with a structure still in place.3. Keep it classic and work toward a goal

No matter how far technology advanc-es, simple games can’t be beat. Tug-of-war, tag, Frisbee and hopscotch are classics for a reason: they’ve stood the

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ROCHESTER — Bipolar disorder evolves differently in patients who also binge eat, a study by Mayo Clinic, the Lindner Center of HOPE and the Uni-versity of Minnesota found. Binge eating and obesity often are present among bipolar patients, but the mood disorder appears to take a different path in those who binge eat than it does in obese bipolar patients who

do not, the research-ers discovered. The findings are pub-lished online in the Journal of Affective Disorders.

Up to 4 percent of Americans have some form of bipo-lar illness, and of those, just under 10 percent also have binge eating dis-order — a higher rate of binge eating than seen in the general population, said co-author Dr. Mark Frye, a psy-

chiatrist and chair of the Department of Psychiatry/Psy-chology at Mayo Clinic in Rochester. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders update released this spring recognizes binge eating dis-order as a distinct condition, he noted.

Bipolar patients who binge eat are more likely to have other mental health issues such as sui-cidal thoughts,

psychosis, anxiety disorders and sub-stance abuse, the study found. People with bipolar disor-der who are obese but do not binge eat are more likely to have serious physi-cal problems such as arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease.

It was more com-mon for women than men with bipo-lar disorder to binge eat or to be obese, the study showed.

Bipolar disorder is different for binge eaters

Kick start the school year with fun ways to keep kids active

Kids urged to get meningococcal vaccination

By Trey Mewestrey.mewes@austindailyherald.com

AUSTIN — Every Wednesday at Band-shell Community Park, passersby can stand for a stretch while listening to Christine Stiehm explain the benefits of yoga.

Stiehm, a certified yoga instructor who has taught classes at the YMCA in Austin for years, holds Ur-ban Yoga, a begin-ner’s yoga class held

outside, at 7 p.m. each week.

“Urban Yoga is a really great way that people have found to introduce themselves to yoga,” she said.

Stiehm first got into yoga in 2001 while she took fit-ness classes at the Y. Though she wasn’t an athlete, she took to group fitness at a stressful time in her life, and the result-ing change was a blessing for her.

“I just started

feeling pretty good about just mov-ing and exercis-ing,” she said. “It just built into more confidence, and all-around just feel-ing good. You just feel good when you exercise.”

An instructor suggested Stiehm should take up cer-tification courses for Pilates. From there, Stiehm found her passion for fitness.

Though she also teaches yoga at

Urban yoga a burgeoning trend in Austin

Few things in life are as darling as a newborn’s little feet, and most new moms take great joy in counting 10 tiny, perfect toes. But foot health can be a source of anxiety for both new and expectant mothers, who may wonder about the best ways to care for their baby’s feet, and how to cope with changes in their own feet.

“Pregnancy creates many changes in the body, and can even affect the size of a woman’s feet,” said Dr. Matthew Ga-roufalis, a podiatrist and president of the American Podiat-ric Medical Asso-ciation. “And even though newborns aren’t walking yet, it’s understandable that mothers may have some concerns about how to best take care of their baby’s feet.”

The discomforts of pregnancy are common and well-known, ranging from back pain and frequent bathroom trips to feet that are both sore and bigger.

“It’s not at all un-usual for a woman to gain a shoe size while pregnant,” Garoufalis said.

“Increased weight puts more pressure on the foot, the arch flattens a bit and the foot elongates. Just a quarter-inch in-crease in foot length is enough to prompt a change in shoe size.”

While it’s probably impossible to com-pletely avoid foot challenges during pregnancy, moms-to-be can take steps to minimize them:

• Control weight gain. Added weight is the most likely cause of foot ex-pansion. Do your best to follow your obstetrician’s guide-lines for how much weight you should gain throughout the pregnancy.

• Avoid high heels. Sure you see celeb-rities accessorizing their baby bumps with stilettos, but a lower heel dur-ing pregnancy will relieve pressure on the foot. Also, lower heels will provide you with greater sta-bility during a time when newly gained weight might throw off your balance. It’s easy to find plenty of pretty, stylish lower heels — 1 to 2 inches in height — that will look and feel great while you’re pregnant.

• Comfort and support should be key considerations any time you choose footwear, but they are even more im-portant for pregnant women. With extra weight and pressure on your feet for nine months, you need a shoe that provides support and cush-ioning. Avoid thin-soled shoes (includ-ing flip-flops and ballet flats); look for shoes with thicker soles and plenty of cushioning inside the shoes. Whatever shoe you choose, it should bend only at the ball of the foot, and you should nev-

Some parts of the country are experi-encing record high temperatures this summer. Las Vegas hit 117 degrees and Phoenix topped the charts at 119 de-grees. Salt Lake City also hit the triple digits as did several areas in California. Dry heat or not, residents and visi-tors were undoubt-edly feeling it, and anytime the mer-cury gets remotely close to these tem-peratures, staying hydrated is of para-mount importance.

This is especially the case for anyone participating in outdoor activities or any sort of exercise program. Our bod-ies produce sweat in order to regulate our core body tem-perature. As the moisture that ap-pears on your skin

evaporates, you cool off. In fact, human beings are the most effective mammal when it comes to regulating our body temperature. At the extreme, an adult can sweat as much as two to four liters per hour.

All of this water needs to be re-placed, but remem-ber that when you sweat you are not just losing water, you are also losing minerals such as sodium and potas-sium. According to Dr. David McCar-ron, adjunct profes-sor at University of California, Davis, “You must replace the sodium and potassium along with the water. This is why athletes drink sports drinks like Gatorade, rather than just water. Replacing water

without sufficient sodium can quickly produce hyponatre-mia, a potentially fatal condition.”

Hyponatremia symptoms are simi-lar to those of heat exhaustion and heat stroke, and are often overlooked. Symp-toms range from mild to severe and can include nausea, muscle cramps, disorientation, confusion, seizures, coma and death. To avoid this condition, medical authorities advise marathon runners to consume extra salt and this

advice should also be considered by anyone exposed to excessive heat. Salt is critical in main-taining hydration.

Sadly there have been several cases of illness and even deaths from hypo-natremia over the past several years. According to the British Medical Journal, 16 runners have died as a result of too little sodium and over-hydration,

and another 1,600 have become seri-ously ill. It is true that water intoxica-

tion is more com-monly seen among extreme athletes but older individuals are

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