Pediatrics 
Performance Art v. Science: Starting Infants On Solids
Two truths follow. Food is love. People love feeding babies. Usually at an infant’s four month visit, I’ll get a question parents have been thinking about for some ... ...read more
A Cold In Your Node? When Kids’ Glands Get Swollen.
Something afoot in the head or neck “His glands are swollen,” said a mom recently in clinic. Warily she measured my reaction and added, “Will you look at them... ...read more
Better Than Pee: New Recommendations For The Dreaded Jellyfish Sting
the sea nettle For those beachgoers among you who don’t already know, jellyfish stings are bummers. From the days of my sunsplashed summers on the Georgia coast, I can r... ...read more
Drooling: Always Gooey, But When Is It Abnormal In Kids?
At some point, all of us drool–especially when we are babies. It isn’t hard to miss, this unintentional waterfalling of saliva out the front of our mouths, and most ... ...read more
Kiddie Migraines: A Headache in Your Stomach?
Migraineur. Sounds like a job for a senior specialist in some artisanal craft, doesn’t it? Such a misleadingly pleasant sounding word. However, ‘migraineur’ ... ...read more
The Lowdown On Hiccups
Don’t let those hiccups get you down! Hiccups are like divine comedy, aren’t they? In seconds, a paroxysmal hurk can render a child most serene, or an adult ... ...read more
Spy A Stye In A Little Eye? Here’s Why.
Styes are like pimples on your eyelid, right? We should squeeze those bumps there, and get out the stuff inside, and that’ll help them get better, won’t it? If a sty... ...read more
Good News! A Better Way to Treat the Dreaded Penis-In-Zipper
Pity the boy who has one of the more tragic types of wardrobe malfunction. Usually it goes down, so to speak, like this: a prepubertal boy, perhaps going commando (sans under... ...read more
Pica: When Kids Eat (and Eat!) Non-Foods
Would you like a brush with that? Infants and toddlers are like wobbly ninjas, focused maniacally on tasting and mouthing items from coins to blocks to the odd flotsam and jets... ...read more
Odd But True: Headbanging in Kids
Positive Bullwinkle sign, is what we called it. When our oldest was an infant, he would take his hand, with fingers and thumb in full extension, and would frequently bonk the ri... ...read moreFollow Us
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