Help Your Children Live Their Best Lives
Constipation’s the WORST! It sounds like such a minor issue, but it can tear households apart (well, almost.) Read one mom’s experience with her son’s constipation which soon turned into a great fear of pooping! Here’s To No More Poop On The Floor! When my four year old started a phase of holding in [Read More...]
To The Families of Newtown Connecticut; All Of You I think of you when I’m brushing my teeth and when I’m making a right-hand turn. I think of you when I smile or I laugh, when it sounds different because it’s marred with a finishing sadness. I think of you when I tell my kids how [Read More...]
Flu season is upon us! Yipee. (Can you detect my faint enthusiasm?) Time to gear up for another coughy/sneezy/sniffly/achy/fevery winter. Need a refresher? Here are the flu FAQ’s that parents want to know. Who should get a flu vaccine? According to the CDC flu guideline (they put one out every year), the populations [Read More...]
Drawing up liquid medication can often be messy and inconvenient. Some medications are extremely expensive and won’t be covered by insurance until the exact day they are authorized to. When the liquid level gets too low to draw directly out of the bottle, pouring into a separate cup and then returning the excess can cause the [Read More...]
This is now going to be required reading in my house. The American Academy of Pediatrics published an updated policy statement in 2010 that addressed choking prevention. Top 15 Choking Hazards Toy parts Coins Latex balloons Hot dogs Hard candy Peanuts/nuts Seeds Whole grapes Raw carrots Apples Popcorn Chunks of peanut butter Marshmallows [Read More...]
You probably know that melanoma is skin cancer and has been pretty clearly tied to sun exposure. But did you know that children can also be diagnosed with melanoma? In a literature review published in 2009*, the authors report that approximately 1-4% of melanoma cases afflict the pediatric age group, with an average of 18 deaths per year. The [Read More...]
Just type “studies show” into any search engine and the yield will be 20,000 entries strong. When it comes to science research in the media, things tend to get blown a little out of proportion. Some foods prevent cancer, some foods cause heart disease, some foods that prevent cancer cause heart disease. In an age where we [Read More...]
The short answer is Yes. We can look at drug recalls as terrifying or we can look at them as reassuring. The truth probably lies somewhere in the boring middle. Although the seeming constant news bytes surrounding the drug recall du jour can cause alarm, it’s important to consider that the removal of defective pharmaceuticals [Read More...]
