Summer Health Hacks

Avoid--and treat--summertime illness with convenient and trustworthy medical care at home or on the go

By The LifeMinute Team

June 29, 2016

What do you do when you're on vacation, away from home or just can't get in touch with your doctor? With livehealthonline.com an experienced, board-certified doctor is just a click away.

Family physician Dr. Mia Finkelston talks summertime health tips and how to treat illness--including receiving prescription medicine--using the smartest and safest telemedicine company available.

Prevention Is Key

Although you may have heard these tips before, they're crucial for having a healthy summer. "Use your common sense. Be prepared to prevent sunburns by using your SPF. Apply it before you go outside and reapply every hour," says Dr. Mia Finkelston, a board-certified family physician who works with telemedicine company livehealthonline.com.

In addition to that, if you're camping or hiking or gardening, be aware of chiggers, poison ivy, and all bug bites. "These are things that really do happen and if you scratch them a lot they can get secondarily infected. So again, prevention is key."

A third thing would be to be prepared to handle heat and heat exhaustion. Dr. Finckelston recommends hydrating well--drink a 12 ounce bottle of water refilled every half an hour, as well as wearing light clothing.

A Doctor A Click Away

What are you going to do if you follow this prevention and things get worse? You might not know what to do. You're on vacation, you're camping. Maybe you're traveling for work but you can't get in touch with your doctor.

Dr. Finkelston suggests going to livehealthonline.com or the accompanying mobile app, free at the App Store. "Through telemedicine you can log in with a board-certified physician who has had many years of experience and select the physician that you want to see," she says. "You have a visit where the physician can see you. Video conferencing that is secure and HIPPA-compliant. They can look at, perhaps, the rash. Give you advice and then treat you if need be with more than over the counter medicine. Writing a prescription if you need it. For instance say you have that poison ivy and you need more than just the over the counter hydrocortisone, maybe a prescription steroid, we can do that for you too."

Affordable Treatment

In some states, with certain insurances, the service is currently a covered benefit, but with livehealthonline.com you can expect that a visit charge will be $49--similar in affordability to a co-pay.

Constant Care

The service is available 365 days of the year including holidays, and there 24/7 coverage. "Meaning, if that itch is getting bad in the middle of the night you can call us for advice. And remember you can use your phone through that mobile app which is free through the App Store, as well as livehealthonline.com," says the doctor.