Important Points in Buying Home Medical SupplyWritten by Kay Zetkin
Hooray! So now you are leaving hospital after confinement. Before you gather up your friends to celebrate your escape, er, discharge from monotonous hospital routine, be very sure first if you will still be need some home medical supplies on an ongoing basis… What supplies?! Well, home medical supplies such as catheters, lubricant, gloves and so on. If you have a continuous need of these things, make it a point to give time and effort in acquiring these home medical supplies. It is a crucial part in your road to recovery. To ensure that, it is important that you select a home medical supply vendor before you are discharged from hospital. This is in order to have your care manager coordinate with a variety of medical supply vendors and discuss possible options for you. Your nurse will also be able to help your care manager in determining medical supplies you will still need. Then, all you and your family need to do is setti9ng up medical supply order with selected supply vendor before discharge. Get help of your care manager for this, still. Here are some important points to consider in selecting a vendor: * The types of third-party payors, like insurance, Medicare, and/or Medicaid, vendor accepts. Practicality wise this is important as you may always not have cash payment for them and have medical insurance premiums that you can maximize. * Consider to have vendor bill directly to third-party payor you have directed them or if not, know paperwork to be done in paying for supplies for you to be reimbursed.
| | Kinds Of SinusitisWritten by Kay Zetkin
After years of having sinusitis, are you still having trouble identifying what kind of sinusitis you have? Identifying what kind of sinusitis you have is important for you to apply right treatment. Generally, sinusitis is inflammation of lining of one or more of sinuses. Thus, in medical terms, sinusitis is classified according to inflamed sinuses and its involved side. Be aware that most people, including you, have four sets of sinuses: Maxillary, ethmoid, frontal and sphenoid. Each sinuses is represented on right and left side of head. Maxillary sinusitis causes pain in mid-face or below eyes, cheek or upper teeth, almost like you’re having a toothache. Ethmoid sinus infection triggers pain between eyes, near bridge of nose. The pain may also become worse with eyeglasses on. Inflammation in frontal sinuses causes severe forehead pain. Sphenoid sinusitis is usually identified by deep-seated pain behind eyes, at top of head or nape of neck. Still, any number of your sinuses can be inflamed at one time. Pansinusitis means that all sinuses are infected. Another way of classifying sinusitis is by duration and frequency of attacks. There are two kinds of sinusitis depending on duration and frequency of attacks: acute sinusitis and chronic sinusitis. Acute sinusitis lasts less than six to eight weeks or occurs less than four times a year. This kind of sinusitis is often preceded by a cold. Once your symptoms last longer than ten to fourteen days, you may already be developing an acute sinus infection, especially if you are feeling facial pain or headache already. During early stages of acute sinusitis, there is nasal blockage and congestion, excessive mucus in nose and throat and sneezing. Some may feel malaise and fatigue and fever. Mucus may become thicker and discolored. Throat discomfort and occasional hoarseness may also be experienced due to postnasal drip. Coughing from postnasal drainage worsen in morning and at night.
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