We have recently moved and our new place as a saltwater #swimming pool. We love this as it allows us to play in the water without...

Most everyone has heard of the #IEP even if their own child hasn't required one. This is a legal document under United States law that is...

Most everyone my age and older endured the chickenpox as a child. Certainly none of us feared it; really, it was more an inconvenience or...

The Indiana Department of Health (IDOH) alerted clinicians today to a report from the Kentucky Department for Public Health of a...

This isn't the first time I've written about diabetes, nor I am sure, will it be my last. Diabetes has become a true epidemic, alongside...

This really shouldn't come as any surprise because, well, I am female. While not every woman has a history of rape or child molestation,...

Interestingly, this really isn't a specific disease. Juvenile Arthritis is an umbrella term to describe the inflammatory and rheumatic...

There are a number of ways, endless ways, that we differ. We are more different than we are the same to be honest, but today when I was...

Not having a huge pediatric practice, I must admit how surprised I am by the number of pediatric clients I care for who suffer with stool...

Many years ago, while watching the sitcom Parenthood with Ray Romano and the hunky, Dax Shepard, it occurred to my former husband that he...

Another super common finding among little ones, particularly those younger than five years of age. Having six of my own and a few...

Since I was a wee little one, I've been very alert to anything health related. Biology fascinated me. First aide was my jam in middle...

A tip I share with most of my clients is if your child has more than one symptom - cough, runny nose, sore throat - then it is almost...

Assessing children and adolescents really is an art, maybe more so than it is even a highly sophisticated science. Children themselves...

Cloud chasing has become quite common among teenagers and young adults, even among a few of my own not-so-little ones unfortunately, and...

My kids have the most wild ear wax and I am not ashamed to say I have a bit of fun with this. I've used candles on them, Elephant ear...

As one of the many herpes viruses, this one living in the epithelial cells of the pharynx and parotid duct, #mononucleosis infects about...

It seems contrary to logic that if you pour your heart into your children that they will wholeheartedly love you in return. The reality...

Although nursing school was more than twenty years ago now... woah, no, almost thirty years ago, I can't say that I remember learning...

Common in childhood, #asthma usually presents as wheeze, breathlessness, chest tightness and #cough, many times at night. Too often these...