Remind children about “freeze” before taking trips, visiting amusements parks, and outings in rural areas. Remind them of what? Yes. Freeze. This is a game in which children run about until a designated caller yells, “Freeze!” The children stop in their tracks (freeze) and remain in that place until the caller gives the all-clear signal […]
Thanksgiving Health Alert
November 16, 2010 by
When your family gathers for Thanksgiving Day, use the opportunity to gather information about the health of all your relatives. Such information may help improve your own health, that of your children, and that of unborn generation. In the U.S, the Surgeon General has declared Thanksgiving Day as National Family Health Day. However, any family […]
Seasonal Affective Disorder in Children
November 5, 2010 by
A frequent dose of sunshine is the right tonic to keep your kids hale and hearty if you reside where winters are long and the days short. Here is what you should know: 1. Sunlight helps minimize being sad and having SAD. Sad (small letters) is having the “winter blues.” SAD (capital letters) stands for […]
Backpacks / Children
October 17, 2010 by
Backpacks here. Backpacks there. Backpacks practically everywhere. Kids of all ages wear them – and, increasingly, so do adults. Toddlers wear them for the sake of wearing them, often empty and sometimes in the shape of cartoon characters. Older kids use them for books and sporting equipment and when hiking and traveling. For high school […]
Air travel/children/hot beverages/aisle seats/injuries
October 3, 2010 by
Skip your hot tea and coffee when flying with young children – and hope that passengers in adjacent seats do the same. Every year hundreds of passengers, many of them children, are burned by such beverages spilling on them. The combination of hot drinks, crowding, turbulence, and children is a formula for an accident waiting […]
Air Travel/Breast feeding/Infant death
September 11, 2010 by
Recently a four-week old infant died on a flight from Washington to Kuwait. The probable cause was the mother accidentally smothered the baby when the mother fell asleep while nursing her infant. This tragic event does not mean that nursing is unsafe during air travel. As far as is known this is the first time […]
Infants and Young Children/Air Travel/Ear Problems
September 2, 2010 by
Ask pediatricians whether infants and young children can travel by air with ear infections and the likely answer is, no, they cannot. Ask pediatricians if they have ever seen a child with serious ear issues resulting from air travel and the likely answer is, no, they have not. There is virtually nothing in the medical […]
Children/Swimmer’s ear
August 23, 2010 by
When children complain of ear discomfort in the summertime, chances are that they have swimmer’s ear, a condition important for you, the parent, to recognize. Early treatment can save you from a few days of having a very unhappy child on your hands and, perhaps, from having to seek medical care and all the hassle […]
Air travel/infants and children/ importance of vaccination
August 1, 2010 by
Are your children’s vaccinations up-to-date before traveling by air? According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), in the past year alone there were more than 3,000 known airline passengers traveling while ill with a contagious disease. 1. The aircraft cabin environment abets the spread of disease-causing microorganisms. Infected passengers cough up, sneeze out […]
