Just like last year, experts are predicting more Lyme disease. While it used to be a pesky disease only in our midatlantic/Lyme Connecticut area of the world, Lyme continues to appear across the northeast…
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Today we bring you a fierce depiction of maternal love, written by poet Catherine Pierce PhD- who is Dr. Kardos’s sister-in-law. We hope your Mother’s Day is full of flowers and free of tornados.…
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Hopefully a splinter of the size in the photo is not lurking on your deck this weekend. The only redeeming feature of a splinter this size is that it is easy to yank out.…
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It seems like all of the patients we saw this past week had “allergy eyes.” Their eyes looked watery and red, some had crusty stuff in their eyelashes, their eyelids looked mildly swollen,…
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Mom guilt! After a day at the beach with my teenage kids over spring break, ALL THREE of them had some sunburn. Gone are the days when my kids were small squirming toddlers…
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In light of the recent recall of all lots of Hyland’s teething tablets because of safety concerns, we thought it was time to update parents about how to relieve teething pain. About seven years…
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Now that spring is finally here, many kids are experiencing the start of spring allergy season, and those allergies are triggering their asthma symptoms. Perfecting a treatment regimen for a child with…
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What’s causing this child’s eyelid swelling? “When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie…” Actually, that’s not amore, but that’s a stye on this child’s upper eyelid. A stye…
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It’s 6 a.m., you are running late for work and your kid is “kinda” sick. Can you send him to daycare? Yesterday we reviewed with an audience of early childhood education teachers the latest medical…
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Although it’s called ringworm, this rash isn’t caused by a worm. In fact, it barely looks like a worm. Otherwise known as tinea corporis, the patch of ringworm is usually a flesh…