Are you tired of a runny or stuffy nose, red and itchy eyes, and sneezing due to allergies? Do your allergy symptoms interfere with your work or your favorite activities? If so, you are not alone. Millions of Americans suffer from food, environmental, and/or seasonal allergies. In an allergy, your immune system interprets a substance
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How Urgent Care Clinics Are Changing the Healthcare Landscape
In the past, coming down with a non-life-threatening illness or having a minor injury meant only two things: going to the ER or waiting for the next available appointment with a primary care physician. That has all drastically changed since the emergence of urgent care clinics over the past decade or so. Urgent care clinics
Read MoreThe Complete Guide to Food Sensitivity Tests
You’ve heard of food allergies, food sensitivities, and food intolerance. First of all, food sensitivity and intolerance are essentially the same thing – they cause digestive issues and can even cause headaches. It’s food allergies that can potentially cause a life-threatening reaction. Let’s talk about how you can find out what is causing your reaction,
Read MoreTop 3 Signs of Food Sensitivity
Do you have a digestive reaction to certain foods? If so, you could have a food sensitivity. Food sensitivity refers to a bodily reaction, most often affecting the digestive system, caused by the food that you consume. Most of the time, when you consume foods and drinks, your body doesn’t react negatively. You simply consume
Read MoreUrgent Care During the New Normal: What to Expect
Urgent care clinics continually evolve to serve the current needs of their community. A major medical concern for everyone today is the COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease 2019) pandemic, so these walk-in clinics have likewise had to adapt – to keep everyone healthy while also keeping everyone safe from the virus, both staff and patients alike. The
Read MoreWhen To Visit An Urgent Care
When To Visit An Urgent Care? When you feel pain in your chest or end up cutting your finger, you are often left wondering should you run to the ER or visit an urgent care clinic. While life-threatening emergencies, like a severe head injury or heart attack, should be dealt with in the emergency room,
Read MorePop Quiz! You May Have Allergies
Do you suffer from allergies? Relief is possible! At My Doc Urgent Care, we not only treat your allergy symptoms, we treat your allergies. Our onsite allergy clinic makes it convenient to get tested, get treated, and get to feeling better! If you suffer from any of the following, you may have allergies: Sniffling Sneezing
Read MoreMost Wonderful Time of the Year – to Get Your Flu Shot!
With summer officially behind us, now is the perfect time to get your flu shot so you are protected for the holidays and beyond! Symptoms of influenza are debilitating and painful, neither of which are synonymous with the most wonderful time of the year. If you are unsure whether you need the flu shot, perhaps
Read MoreUrgent Care or Emergency Room?
When illness or injury occurs, it’s sometimes difficult to determine where to find the right treatment — should you go to the emergency room or an urgent care center? The biggest question to ask yourself is how quickly do you need care? If you or a loved one could die or be permanently disabled, it
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