About five years ago, we started noticing Amber Bead Necklaces adorning the necks of infants. We also noticed a plastic giraffe named Sophie. These relative newcomers are the latest in a long…
Babies
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Time for a Two Peds photo quiz. What is up with this baby’s belly-button? It’s called an umbilical hernia, which is an out-pouching at the belly button, caused by loose belly muscles.…
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Who knew when we first published this post in June 2014 that another measles outbreak would occur in the US. In light of the numerous measles cases that emerged out of the…
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Should I vaccinate my child? Yes, yes, yes! The recent measles outbreak originating in Disneyland among mostly-unvaccinated children and adults highlights how important it is to continue to immunize children against preventable…
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How often should your child take a bath? What’s wrong with bubble bath? And how about the teens? Come find out as Kelley interviews us in Happy Healthy Kids. …
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“You just can’t understand worry until you have a child of your own.” Welcome to cold and flu season. Now that flu and many other illnesses are circulating, we want to help…
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Now that we are in the middle of the 2015 flu season, we have parents asking us every day how they can tell if their child has the flu or just a…
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So many children (and their parents) have colds now. Are you staring at the medicine display in the pharmacy, wondering which of the many cold medicines on the shelf will best help…
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A mom wrinkles her brow and hands me a bulging bag of inhalers. “Which medicine is the ‘quick fix’ inhaler? And which medicine is the ‘controller’ inhaler?” she asks. Perfecting a treatment…
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Does your kid spit out all medicine? Clamp her jaws shut at the sight of the antibiotic bottle? Refuse to take pain medicine when she clearly has a bad headache or sore throat?…