School health centers discussed

Parents, would you like your children to attend school more? Visit doctor's offices less? Not have to miss work because of a sick child?

The Morehouse Parish School Board heard a presentation for Louisiana School-Based Health Centers at a recent committee meeting.

School-Based Health Centers (SBHCs) are "doctors' offices in schools" said Maureen Daly, medical director with the Department of Health and Hospitals of the Office of Public Health.

The SBHCs do four important things for students attending the school where it is located and for surrounding schools.

n Provide basic health and mental health care services with parents' permission. Some of these services include shots, asthma and diabetes management, nutrition advice, grief therapy and helps with peer pressure and suicide prevention. This was demonstrated in 1999 when a student heard of a suicide pact and told the SBHC social worker. The incident was quickly intervened.

n Students who do not receive medical treatment elsewhere will at the school.

They will be given medical attention when needed. Problems like asthma and diabetes may be caught early and prevent bigger problems in the future.

n Perhaps most importantly, students are kept healthy and in class where they can learn how to succeed in life.

"The SBHC program has been tremendously successful in Louisiana," Daly said.

She said the Louisiana Adolescent School Health Initiative Act passed in 1991 will see 66 SBHCs in state schools before the end of the year

The centers are staffed with a primary care provider -- physician, physician assistant or nurse practitioner -- a medical director, a registered nurse, a master's level mental health provider, administrator and office assistant.

The program's appeal is the decrease of student absentees, which means parents don't miss time from work, and decreased emergency room visits. Daly said students have convenient access to medical services where they stay a good portion of the day.

I think SBHCs and school health programming are critical to decreasing the burden of chronic diseases asthma, obesity, cardiac disease and stroke in our communities," said Daly.

The SBHC does have some restrictions based on Louisiana law. They cannot distribute contraceptives or birth control pills. Also, advocating, referring or counseling a student about abortion is off limits.

The Morehouse Parish School Board is looking into the planning process. Interim Superintendent Tom Thrower said the board would "see if it would be feasible" for this area to have a SBHC. Thrower said the board will discuss opening a SBHC in the future.

Center was not suitable for drinking juice?

Not everyone is suited to the center to drink fruit juice, because vegetables contain large quantities of potassium, in patients with nephropathy due to inability to detoxify the body of excess potassium, the center if they drink fruit juice may cause hyperkalemia In addition, people who need long-term diabetes control blood sugar Not all the center can drink fruit juice.

2. Juice nutrients to ensure that the center is not lost?

Fresh vegetables juices rich in vitamins, if placed too long time because of light and temperature undermine the effectiveness of vitamin and nutritional

Therefore is a drink is, can the maximum effectiveness, the largest in 20 minutes finish. If we do not immediately drink, it is necessary to Add refrigerator.

3. Juice Tailiangshangjuan afraid of the center, how to drink?

Physical injuries can not change the physical center of the fruit juice drink Tip two: First, can be added such as vegetables or rhizomes and grain powder, brown rice together labeled as juice, compared not so cool; variety of fruits and vegetables is two different nutrition

Fruit juice labeled as the best time?

Center juice materials, Dangling fresh fruits and vegetables to select the best. Frozen fruits and vegetables because of long storage time, gradually reduce the vitamin content of the physical benefits also reduced. In addition, the selection of organic products or planted themselves better to avoid pesticide pollution.

5. Labelled with any fruit juice can?

Some fruits and vegetables containing vitamin C would undermine one of the enzymes, such as: carrot, pumpkin, cucumber, Hami melons, and other fruits and vegetables with, and other fruits and vegetables will of vitamin C be destroyed. However, as a result of this enzyme easily heat and acid damage, in the center made fresh fruit juice, can be included in acid such as lemon fruit, to prevent other vitamin C be destroyed.

6. Skin fruits and vegetables also contain nutrients?

Pengguanpi with cellulose, help peristalsis, and promote defecation, grape skin is a multi-phenolic substances, anti-oxidation, such as apple, grape skin consumption can be retained. Of course, fruits and vegetables should be cleaned to avoid drinking and pesticide residues in eggs.

7. How the center of the juice drink?

A one drink slowly, thus making it easy to completely absorbed in the body, if the big mouth Tongyin, the center will soon juice of sugar into the blood, so that a rapid increase in blood sugar.

In addition, the morning after a meal or two hours after drinking the best, especially in the morning to drink the most ideal, but if only a glass of fruit juice to replace the center was originally a breakfast and too weak, because the center in the carbohydrate content of juice small, as not enough source of energy throughout the morning, coupled with low blood sugar will not help the brain thinking, easy emotional impetuous.

After dinner two hours after drinking, and the principle of eating fruit, as fruits easier to digest than other foods, in order not to interfere with dinner food in the stomach to digest the meal two hours to drink more appropriate.

Avoid drinking before sleep at night, a night in water intake will increase the burden of kidneys, the body prone to swelling.

Some people like to increase the center sugar juice taste, but the decomposition of sugar, vitamin B group will increase and the depletion of calcium, magnesium wastage, reduce nutrition.

If the center up and poor taste juice can be more use of heavy-sweet fruits such as Hami melons, pineapples, as with, or slightly to honey, increase the intake of vitamin B6.

8. Center juice drink which it is not appropriate?

Fresh vegetables should not be sugar juice Otherwise, it will increase the heat.

It is not appropriate heating. After heating the center will not only fruit juice aroma run away, but also various types of vitamin will be destroyed.

Not with the same drink milk. Milk is rich in protein, fruits and vegetables Shiduo as acid, protein would block the formation in the stomach, can not be absorbed, thereby reducing the milk and the nutritional

Juice should not use the center of drug delivery service. Otherwise, the center of the acid in the juice of various drugs in advance easily lead to decomposition and melting, to the detriment of drug absorbed in the small intestine, the impact of efficacy.

Ulcers, as well as in patients with acute and chronic renal gastroenteritis poor people should not drink fruit juice center.

Reminded: to the press center with juice drink, or oxygen in the air to make the vitamin C content decreased. In addition, although the nutrition

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