Lice! Every parent fears hearing the words, “Your child has lice and needs to come home.”  It happens to everyone and anyone.  It is not reserved for just the girls or those who don’t wash their hair as often. Lice has no boundaries.  The most important thing to remember about lice is they are just a nuisance.  They don’t cause any long term damage and most importantly they are not life threatening.

Having said that, when your child has lice, it involves a lot of work to help get rid of them.  If you look at the Internet there are articles upon articles about how to treat them, what works best, and how to clean your house.  You can go crazy with all of the information out there and you can spend a fortune on all of the different products. …Continue reading →

Fall and Winter are great for a lot of reasons, but cold and flu season is not one of them.  I’m sure many of your children are like mine and are already working on their first or second cold since the start of Fall.  Most young kids are terrible nose blowers so you end up needing to use a nasal aspirator to suction the mucous out of their nose.  We use the blue bulb syringes on our babies, but for our older kids we use the Nosefrida. …Continue reading →

As the kids in my practice get older, I am finding more and more wanting to become vegetarian.  Some due it because they just don’t like meat.  Others state it is for ethical reasons and the way animals are treated.  Often the parents come to me so I can talk there children out of being vegetarian.  This is something I usually do not do.  A vegetarian diet can be very healthy, often more healthy then your average kids diet, if it is done correctly.  A child he says he/she is vegetarian and only eats pasta, grilled cheese, and yogurt is not a healthy vegetarian.  If some homework is done, and effort is made, a vegetarian diet is very healthy and often can be lower in fat then someone who eats a lot of meat. …Continue reading →