Your six month old has a cold and cough and is miserable- you are miserable because he is and both of you were up all night. You reach in your medicine cabinet and grab one of the child cough remedies and call one of us for dosing. Our response- throw it in the garbage. …Continue reading →
Kristin Bencik-Boudreau, DO
Bronchiolitis: No, it is NOT Bronchitis
Bronchiolitis is here – and no, it is not the same as bronchitis! If you imagine the tubes in your airway as a tree, the trunk of the tree is the bronchus, and the tiny tubes are the bronchioles. Adults and adolescents get bronchitis, or an inflammation of the main trunk of the airway. …Continue reading →
Pertussis is back
Pertussis or “whooping cough” has reemerged in our community. There are three confirmed cases in elementary school children in Whitefish Bay–one of whom is my son. For the record, Jake was fully vaccinated against pertussis; however, the vaccine is only 85 percent effective. Vaccinations are not 100 percent effective, and efficacy is different for each individual vaccine.