It is certainly understandable, given the amount of press and official and unofficial commentary through law enforcement, social media discussions, and easily seen news programs, that fear should arise in the minds of both children attending school and parents of those children about their safety in what has traditionally been a bastion of safety, their schools.
This publicly available information,...
First let’s differentiate between these two popular drinks. Sport drinks have water, sodium, potassium and sugar (among other things), while energy drinks include caffeine or other stimulants. For the most part, after moderate exercise, only water needs to be replaced and free access to water is key to training athletes. While large amounts of water can be lost in highly trained athletes, younger...
Let’s discuss medication use in children because many parents feel that an office visit to the Doctor for their child is not complete without a medication to use regardless of the cause for the visit.
First, many Doctors are getting away from using medications of all kinds for minor illnesses. Antibiotics are not effective for the most common infections seen in Children, viruses. Typical “cold...
When you child is acting sick or unusual you are right on top of that and many times that ends in a visit to his/her Pediatrician. Your mind is put at ease (usually), your child may or may not be given medication for the problem, you go home feeling much better about your responsibilities as a parent, and within a short period of time your child is feeling better. But what about all the well child/baby...
We, as humans, are so prone to allergic problems that it seems to be the “human condition” helping to define who we are. Don’t get me wrong, other species can also have allergic problems and you have probably seen that at some point in your domestic cats and dogs.
But we humans are not very tolerant of these annoying symptoms and aside from cold medicines and possibly antibiotics, medications...
Unique Influenza:
I. First – You need to know a little about what makes this such a tough bug to prevent….
a) To do that you need to understand the nature of this virus – in particular that it is continuously changing / evolving.
Before we discuss the Flu virus and its effects on human beings it is important to know some basic background information. The Influenza viral particle at the microscopic...
