Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
I discovered that my youngest daughter could speak a foreign language when she was around 6 years old. We call it “whinese” because entire sentences and comments for many hours a day can be in this new and irritating tongue. Maybe you know this language – it is common among members of the early elementary school year tribe. What’s amazing is that all kids are born knowing it
It used to be so easy – your child got sick, you took him to the doctor, an “ear infection” was diagnosed and an antibiotic was prescribed. And, sometimes, you were able to get an antibiotic “just in case” or over the phone. Nowadays the situation is so much more complicated it’s no wonder parents and doctors alike are confused.
Parents learn to develop a high tolerance for dealing with sick symptoms in their children but one symptom always seems to stop even the most seasons of parents in their tracks: fever. The reality of fever, to quote my daughter’s favorite cartoon super teens Ron Stopable and Kim Possible: “no big”.
