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Kids to Anti-Aging
Diet needs change as we move through life’s stages. Learn how and when to feed your baby or toddler. Find out which nutrients kids and teens need to build strong bones and teeth. Discover why women need fewer calories yet more nutrients than men, and see if an anti-aging diet will help you live to be 100!
Healthy Kids
Does your child get essential nutrients? Discover which nutrients are most important for kids and how to include them in your child’s diet.
Discover the basics on when, what, and how much to feed infants and toddlers.
Got a picky eater? Learn what foods to serve preschoolers that will perk up their appetites and stop mealtime battles.
Learn easy ways to boost healthy diet and exercise habits with school-age kids.
Discover some simple strategies to help your teen make the healthiest food choices.
Is your child overweight? Learn how to help a child with weight loss from tips from expert David S. Ludwig, MD, a pediatrician at Children's Hospital, Boston.
New Moms
Learn why these super foods are important during pregnancy and ways to enjoy them at mealtime or snacktime.
Antiaging
Learn all about the role of diet in aging with expert David Grotto, RD, LDN, a radio talk show host and author of 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life.
Will your current diet help you age well? Learn how to eat right for optimal health and a long life.
VIVELLE-DOT (estradiol transdermal system) IS AVAILABLE BY PRESCRPTION ONLY.
INDICATION
Vivelle-Dot is used after menopause to: reduce moderate to severe hot flashes; treat moderate to severe dryness, itching and burning in or around the vagina; help reduce your chances of getting osteoporosis (thin weak bones); and treat certain conditions in which a young woman's ovaries do not produce enough estrogens naturally. Vivelle-Dot 0.025 mg/day is only used to prevent osteoporosis from menopause. If you use Vivelle-Dot only to treat your dryness, itching, and burning in and around your vagina or if you use Vivelle-Dot only to prevent osteoporosis from menopause, talk with your healthcare professional about whether a different treatment or medicine without estrogens might be better for you.
IMPORTANT SAFETY INFORMATION
Estrogens increase the chances of getting cancer of the uterus (womb). Report any unusual vaginal bleeding right away while you are taking estrogens. Vaginal bleeding after menopause may be a warning sign of cancer of the uterus (womb).
Do not use estrogens with or without progestins to prevent heart disease, heart attacks, or strokes. Using estrogens with or without progestins may increase your chances of getting heart attacks, strokes, breast cancer, and blood clots. Using estrogens with progestins may increase your risk of dementia (decline in memory and thinking skills).
Vivelle-Dot should not be used if you have unusual vaginal bleeding; currently have or have had certain cancers, including cancer of the breast or uterus; had a stroke or heart attack in the recent past (for example, in the past year); currently have or have had blood clots; currently have or have had liver problems; or think you may be, or know that you are, pregnant.
The most common side effects that may occur with Vivelle-Dot are headache, breast tenderness, and back pain.
You and your healthcare professional should talk regularly about whether you still need treatment with Vivelle-Dot.
You are encouraged to report negative side effects of prescription drugs to the FDA. Visit www.fda.gov/medwatch or call 1-800-FDA-1088.
Please see Full Prescribing Information for Vivelle-Dot.
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