Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
Never say never. One of these days it will happen, guaranteed. You will be on the trip of a life time, the very trip you’ve been planning for months, when suddenly you hear that poorly timed comment “Mom, I’m not feeling so great”. You’ll freeze and immediately think: “this can’t be happening!”
Technical Name: Asthma NickNames: reactive airways, wheezing What is it? narrowing and swelling of the tubes of your lungs that occurs when trigged by a variety of stimuli such as viruses, allergens, season changes, pets, insect stings How is the [...]
Technical Names: RSV Bronchiolitis NickNames: RSV, wheezing virus What it is: viral infection of the small airways of the lung; can cause a true viral pneumoniaas well. Typical Ages for Illness: All ages; most severe in young and premature infants and [...]
Strep throat is a common infection for kids in school of all ages. Here’s a summary of what you need to know next time your child comes home saying “Mom…my throat hurts.”
There are times in life I’m reminded of the 1980’s Billy Crystal parody, “You Look Marvelous”. The skit was a paroday of Fernando Lamas and gave birth to the phrase “You look marvelous…it’s not how you feel, it’s how you [...]
You’re likely heard by now that some parents were ordering lollipops spit on – yes, I did type “spit on” – by children infected by chicken pop to attempt to infect their how children with the virus. Here are the [...]
Kids handle transitions differently from each other and many do just fine but the start of a new school year is a transition and you should expect the other shoe to drop as expectations and work increase.
It never fails. One of your children gets sick when your spouse is away on business and you have a full schedule. The domino effect for a family with a sick child is enormous – home, work and school lives are all impacted and often at the least convenient times! To complicate matters, it can be difficult deciding when to keep a child home and when to forge ahead business as usual.
Ticks are common over the summer – and so are concerns about Lyme Disease. Knowing what to do will not only give you peace of mind but dramatically decrease the spread of illness from the tick to members of your family.
My husband and I travel a great deal and one issue I never worry about is bringing some illness home to our kids. Why? Because we’re both immunized and so are our kids. That isn’t the case for everyone, though, [...]
