Dr. Gwenn’s Huffington Post Blog
The last decade has produced some amazing changes in child health. Recently, I consulted some of the top pediatricians in the country to figure out where we’ve come from and where we are going next. Some of these changes may surprise you, so hold on to your seat!
I have an active, happy and playful 15 month old son. His solid and liquid intake is good. He is not experiencing cold, fever or any allergy symptoms but he has eczema and is on hydrocortisone weekly for the past month. For the past weeks, he throws up at the most 5 times a week. It is all that he ate a moment ago covered with clear mucus.
Bug has many definitions that all apply to your family’s health. Bug can mean an illness, such as the flu, or a pesky problem, such as an injury or allergies or social or psychological issues. Both types of bugs are most certainly part of life and impact all of us. What fascinates me is that most bugs are seasonal and there are many that go about all our towns as if on a road trip!
Technical Names: laryngotracheobronchitis NickNames: croup, barking seal cough What is it: infection of our trachea – the main tube in our throat Typical Ages for Illness: infants and toddler most usually but occasionally younger elementary school children. Typical Symptoms:barky, seal-like [...]
Technical Name: otalgia NickName: ear pain Causes: ear pain is a symptom that doesn’t always mean ear infection. The most common causes of ear pain include: Ear infection Ear irritation of ear canal Fluid in ear building up pressure Foreign [...]
Technical Name: Parvovirus B19 OtherNames: Erythema Infectiosum (EI) 5TH Disease What is it? A viral illness Symptoms and Course: Typically starts with a fever and mild viral symptoms such as tiredness, headache and cold symptoms, then proceeds to a rash [...]
Updated January 29, 2009 As of this post, the FDA has expand the peanut butter recall to include all products made by the Peanut Corporation of America in their Georgia plant since January 1, 2007. Retail jars of peanut butter that [...]
Technical Names: Urticaria, Angioedema Nicknames: Hives, welts (from Pediatric Physical Diagnosis Electronic Atlast, Zitelli and Davis) What are hives? Raised, red, itchy lesions on the skin that often come and go and can coalesce together in to larger, red, itchy [...]
Whenever news hits of co-eds at local colleges getting diagnosed with bacterial meningitis, people understandably become alarmed in the community. While a very contagious illness if you have contact with an infected person, this is not contagious like the flu. [...]
With the news in Boston recently of two co-eds at a local college getting diagnosed with bacterial meningitis, many people are alarmed. While a very contagious illness if you have contact with an infected person, this is not contagious like [...]
