Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
With all the choices of toys and games and this year’s concern of toy safety with the oodles of recalls, choosing gifts for the youngest members on your holiday list may seen daunting and impossible. Actually, there are many more [...]
Whether for a birthday gift, holiday, or special treat, buying a toy for a child is not always easy. There are so many choices of toys and products and so many different opinions, it can be daunting to decide what [...]
World Against Toys Causing Harm (W.A.T.C.H.) released it’s annual worst toys list today. The toys on the list all contain hazards to kids – magnets that can be swallowed, lead paint concerns, rubber bands that can cause eye injury, etc. [...]
Today on NECN, I talked with Karen Swenson about three top headlines that parents are worried about: 1. The latest toy recall2. New information that not all TV is bad for our young kids3. The latest study on the pill [...]
First we had the lead scare and yesterday we learned that another toy, Aquadots, also from China, contains a product that if ingested turns into the so-called “date rape drug”, or gamma hydroxy butyrate. This begs the question – are [...]
Yesterday’s voluntary recall of infant and toddler cold and cough medication goes well beyond the the Tylenol products I posted about yesterday. The companies that produces the infant cold and cough formulations of Dimetapp, Little Colds , Pediacare, Robitussin and [...]
The Tylenol people sent this email around to healthcare professionals today. It is an important one for parents to read, too. The bottom line is this. There is great concern of the safety of drug dosing in medications for small [...]
With today’s announcement of another 1/2 million Chinese toys being recalled due to concerns over excessive amounts of lead, the obvious next question is: are any toys safe? As much as we all keep hoping the end is in sight, [...]
Two interesting headlines caught my eye today on two totally unrealted topics. First, the bad news. On the footsteps of the latest toy news comes another headlines of more tainted toys from China. According to the Associated Press, “RC2 Corp.’s [...]
In light of the major toy recall announced yesterday, the American Academy of Pediatrics whipped up an information page on toy safety and lead screening – here it is, hot off the presses: AAP Major Toy Recall Information Page IMAGE [...]
