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Foster care
Foster care is a temporary home for children who are no longer in their parents custody.
Dr. Jeff Livingston reviewed this
24 year experience in Obstetrics and Gynecology
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A 41-year old asked:
How can foster care affect personality?
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A 42-year old asked:
Are kids better off with grandparents than in foster care?
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A 44-year old asked:
How long for the people from foster care to check after a report?
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A 43-year old asked:
Do kids in foster care finish school?
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A 30-year old asked:
What happends if you run away from foster care?
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A 36-year old asked:
Why do teachers treat you differently if you live in foster care?
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A 43-year old asked:
What would happen if you try to commit suicide when in foster care?
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A 48-year old asked:
What type of parents are people who grew up in foster care?
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A 37-year old asked:
My stepdad took my mom away from me and they put me in foster care. What do I do?
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A 18-year old female asked:
A long line of addictions in my family. I'm in foster care and happy with my family but I'm afraid I have alcohol issues. I'm 17?
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A 29-year old asked:
Do a foster care kid get to see the same doctor for preventive services, over time?
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A 36-year old asked:
How many children are in foster care because their mother has a mental illness?
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A 23-year old female asked:
I have a 7mo old he's in foster care and I found out I'm pregnant again and I don't want the kid. How do I abort wo going to an abortion clinic?
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A 48-year old asked:
Does living in a foster home affect the quality of life of a child?
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A member asked:
Can you tell me if foster 100/6 is good for asthma thanks?
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A 46-year old asked:
Can someone with a mental health problem still become a foster parent?
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A 41-year old asked:
Is it possible for me to eat a bananas foster while pregnant?
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A 28-year old female asked:
Can i be a foster parent even though I have lupus? I am able to work full time.
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A 36-year old asked:
Could you tell me what are rules/regulations for vaccinations for foster family?
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A 31-year old female asked about a female:
Can high hb values indicate a problem? My foster daughter had 14.7 at 18 months and 14.1 at 2 yrs. She is african american. Prenatal exposures.
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A 61-year old male asked:
Cancer: Is it important that I know the stage cancer is in? Friends tend to think it is. I do not think it does any good but to foster myths.Hmm?
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A 58-year old male asked:
Dr Foster. Can 10mg tyrptizol be taken with 15 mg Lexapro (escitalopram) for G A D.Lexapro (escitalopram) in the morning and tyrptizol at night, Thanks?
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A 30-year old female asked:
I'm interested in becoming a foster parent and will need some medical documents signed verifying my health. I have no current chronic conditions or health concerns. Can Doctors on Healthtap help with this?
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A 37-year old female asked:
How can I get a diagnosis for FAS on my foster child, here in australia. Gp is reluctant because he says she doesn't have typical FAS facial features!
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A 24-year old male asked:
WIll aloe vera foster the regeneration of facial skin? Can i put aloe vera on previously wounded area?
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A 29-year old female asked:
I am fostering a cat who has been diagnosed with ringworm. Right now I have 2 tiny lesions. They are not pruritic. Do i need to see a doctor?
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A 41-year old female asked:
My foster brother has a track he coded the other day and it took 30 min to revieve him his body temp dropped below normal and the xray show no swellin?
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A female asked:
My doctor prescribed foster but I would like to know if I can use symbicort (budesonide and formoterol)?
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A member asked:
I have been taking cefuroxime for 3 wks for orchitis.My doctor gave me norfloxacin recently.Is it ok to take them together?Will it foster resistance?
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A 28-year old female asked about a male:
New Foster,18mo boy, removed from home,tested+for meth in system. Severe amblyopia&vision loss in L eye,now in glasses. Poss related to meth exposure?
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