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!”
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 [...]
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.
The flu season became a bit complicated last year when H1N1 came onto the season. Not only did we have the familiar “seasonal flu” to contend with but this new player “H1N1″.
If there are two pearls of wisdom I can impart to you about toddlers it is this: they will have many boo-boos and there will be times you will be convinced your toddler is “always sick” and you should change your address to that of your pediatrician’s office.
One of the most difficult issues for new parents, and grand-parents, is deciding if a very young infant (under 2 months of age) is sick.
H1N1 has sure made our lives more complicated, hasn’t it?
It used to be complicated enough staying up to date with one influenza virus, the “seasonal” or winter flu, now we have H1N1, swine flu, to worry about, too. In other words, we now have two flu seasons instead of one.
The 2009-2010 school year game plan was simple enough: avoid the wide spread school closings that occurred at the end of the 2008-2009 school year when H1N1 first came into our lives.
