Student Health Services
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Being ill and not knowing what to do about it or where to go to get information on how to get better can create a stressful situation. Thanks to the Student Health Services, all of your questions or concerns about your status will be confronted at the center. If you have question about infectious diseases, STDs, or even the common cold Student Health Services will be there to provide you with the answers you have been searching for.
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Students' Self-Care Guide
Section 1-Common Health Problems
In this section there is obviously a wide variety of common health problems that we as human beings face everyday. The problem is that most common health problems arn't being taken care of the right way. To take care of common health problems the right way you need to first know something about the problem, like what are the causes of it, and then you can go from there in trying to fight it. Here is a list of some common health problems stating the causes of it, signs of the problem, and symptoms of any given problem.
Abdominal Pain
As you already know the abdomin is located between the lower ribs and the pelvis that contains many vital organs. If you are experiencing abdominal pain then you might be experiencing constipation. Constipation results from not consuming enough liquids, not eating enough dietary fiber, being very inactive, and from not using laxatives correctly. Another symptom that causes abdominal pain is gastroenteritis, which is inflammation of the lining of the stomache and intestines. The causes of gastroenteritis include having an intestinal virus, food poisoning, and drinking too much contaminated water or too much alcohol.
STDs/HIV
Everyone already knows that sexually transmitted diseases(STDs) are infections that get passed from one person to the other through sexual contact(vaginal, anal, oral sex, and also genital-to-gentail contact). Seventy-five percent of all STDs are passed on through persons between the ages of 15 to 24 years old. There are many STDs among us today, but the two most common for college students are chlamydia and HPV(human papillomavirus). Chlamydia is caused by different strains of the bacterium chlamydia trachomatis. About twenty-five percent of males have few or no sighns what so ever and can still pass on the bacteria. Symptoms may show from two to four weeks after infection nd include mocous discharge from the penis, and burning and discomfort when urinating. About seventy-five percent of females also have few or no signs and can still pass it on. Like males, the symptoms show up to four weeks and include, vaginal discharge and also a burning sensation while urinating. The onlt good thing about this horific bacteria, is it can be treated. It is treated with oral antibotics and avoiding sexual intercores with on the antibotics. Now HPV is a little more serious. About twenty-five different types of HPV can infect the genital area. Out of that twenty-five only a few types can cause genial warts, but the other types may increase the risk for cervical cancer. Oftem there are no sings or symptoms, genital warts are often skin-colored, do not hurt, and can be located on someones' body in hard to see places. HPV is spread by skin to skin contact during sex. It can appear several weeks after being infected or may not show up for months or even years. This STD can be treated by creams or gels that your doctor would have to perscribe you.
Colds and Flu
Having either a cold or the flu is probably the most common illness around. Symptoms conserning a cold of the flu are quite different. Flu symptoms come on syddenly and affect the body all over. Cold symptoms mostly just affect above the neck. Having a low fever and a little bit of the chills means you probably have a cold, but a high fever might mean you have the flu. If you are having general pains throughout the body you are probably experiencing the flu.
Stress
We all know that college is and can be a lot of fun but can also create a lot of stress. Due to extreme changes in ones' life, like adjusting to new friends and surroundings, to an academic overloads and financial demands, college probably creates more stress than anything else. Although stress doesn't seem that serious, it is. Physical symptoms of stress include increased blood pressure and heart rate, tense muscles, irrigular eating habit, and sleeping poorly. Emotional reactions can be anywhere from anger, to losing your temper completley. If any of these sound like your case you are probably suffering from too much stress and should seek assistance.
