Parents have been asking me some pointed questions as to how to better help their child deal with getting a blood test or injection. Let me see if I can make this topic a lot less painful for children and parents. and children. - Some positive ways to help prepare your ...

With winter here, i have found myself cooling off a lot of parents who have questions about their children’s safety when ice skating — both indoors and outdoors. Almost 20,000 children are being seen for skating injuries on a yearly basis, so this week i’ll glide through a few skating ...

Parents have been coughing up lots of questions about whether or not their child who has had a cough and fever for several days could be experiencing a walking or mild pneumonia. Let me see if I can walk you through some information on this topic. A pneumonia is an infection of the lungs. ...

One of the most common questions I get from younger patients is, “What’s that stuff that forms inside my nose and is ripe for the picking?” Well, let me put everyone in the know — or should I say nose — and tell you what it is and is snot. It turns out that every day your nose ...

It is hard to believe that I have been doing “First with Kids” for almost 29 years — but how time flies when you are having fun and trying to make a difference. This week is my 1,500th column! To commemorate this milestone, rather than focus on one topic, I thought I would count ...

Prior to holiday trips by car, plane, train or boat, I find many parents traveling to my office with lots of questions about motion sickness with the hope that this problem can be prevented before it is too late. Well, I don’t want any parent or child to get sick to their stomachs waiting ...