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How­ev­er you choose to feed your baby, mak­ing sure your lit­tle one is receiv­ing the prop­er nutri­tion can be a hard, chal­leng­ing, yet reward­ing jour­ney. At DuPage Med­ical Group, we are lucky to have two expert lac­ta­tion con­sul­tants’ on-staff, pro­vid­ing com­pas­sion­ate and com­pre­hen­sive sup­port to moth­ers and their babies. 

The win­ter sea­son is a com­mon time when seri­ous injuries from ice-relat­ed falls inevitably occur. Icy, snowy sur­faces are a major cause of ankle sprains and frac­tures, and it’s crit­i­cal to seek prompt treat­ment to pre­vent fur­ther dam­age that can pro­long recovery.

Parkinson’s dis­ease is a pro­gres­sive neu­ro­log­i­cal dis­ease that affects your body’s abil­i­ty to move. This con­di­tion can make per­form­ing sim­ple dai­ly tasks such as walk­ing, get­ting up from a chair or mov­ing in bed more dif­fi­cult, as move­ments become small­er and slow­er. In the U.S. alone, there are more than one mil­lion peo­ple liv­ing with Parkinson’s.

Hair loss can be a stress­ful and emo­tion­al expe­ri­ence for many peo­ple because hair is part of your iden­ti­ty. Yet, as we age, it is nor­mal for hair to grad­u­al­ly thin and change tex­ture, how­ev­er, some peo­ple lose hair at a more dras­tic rate than others.

The Amer­i­can Soci­ety of Plas­tic Sur­geons (ASPS) reports that lip aug­men­ta­tions are up 43% in women since 2000, with fillers being the most pop­u­lar. Lip aug­men­ta­tion used to be a more drawn out process, but today with the advance­ment in fillers, you can enhance your look in mere min­utes. If you’ve been think­ing about per­fect­ing your pout but have been appre­hen­sive about lip fillers in the past, JUVÉ­DERM VOL­BEL­LA® XC might be right for you.

As an alter­na­tive to plas­tic surgery, the Pro­found^® sys­tem is an FDA-approved treat­ment used to reduce wrin­kles and the appear­ance of cel­lulite on the face and body. With a patent­ed tech­nol­o­gy that induces the body’s nat­ur­al heal­ing process to regen­er­ate skin fun­da­men­tals, the Pro­found^® sys­tem cre­ates younger and smoother look­ing skin after just one treatment.

Did you know that 1 in 4 peo­ple are both­ered by sub­men­tal full­ness also known as a ​“dou­ble chin”? Though many peo­ple diet and exer­cise, the dou­ble chin is a very dif­fi­cult area to reduce or elim­i­nate. Sub­men­tal full­ness is not always caused by weight, some­times genet­ics or age can be con­tribut­ing fac­tors. If you aren’t ready, or are weary of lipo­suc­tion, Kybel­la® might be the right solu­tion for you.

As the body ages, near­ly every­one expe­ri­ences sag­ging skin. Like rings on a tree, loose, sag­ging skin of the neck betrays one’s age. This is par­tic­u­lar­ly true with the now-com­mon BOTOX© Cos­met­ic and der­mal fillers for the face which make neck imper­fec­tions stand out in stark relief. While the best bet for com­bat­ing a full-blown turkey wad­dle is a sur­gi­cal face and neck lift, there are many new­er options for those desir­ing a less-inva­sive approach to achieve a reju­ve­nat­ed neck.

Have you ever looked in the mir­ror and wished for bet­ter cheek­bones? Have you ever envied peo­ple with strong chins or well-defined jaw lines? Facial aug­men­ta­tion may be an option for you.

Nor­mal hair loss is con­sid­ered to be 100 to 150 strands per day. If you expe­ri­ence a high­er amount of hair loss, you may have male- or female-pat­tern hair loss. There can be many caus­es of hair loss includ­ing phys­i­cal stress, preg­nan­cy, cer­tain pre­scrip­tion med­ica­tions, vit­a­min defi­cien­cy, autoim­mune dis­or­ders and hered­i­tary caus­es. Platelet-rich plas­ma (PRP) hair treat­ment is a nat­ur­al, proven way to pro­mote hair growth in cer­tain types of hair loss.