When raising a teen, you might undergo a roller coaster series of emotions. There may even be instances when you want to pull your hair out wondering when everything spiraled downhill. Plus, there are also financial challenges. You need not worry, teen years aren’t solely about those challenges. It’s also at this stage that you’ll […]
Children with ADHD can be a handful sometimes and even those not diagnosed with the condition get many-a-parent worried. Most children while running around and being noisy also often get easily distracted. There are also those kids that manifest these behaviors more frequently than others, and that may end up being attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
It’s a grim reality many of us face: Promptly after eating cheese, we become sick. Should we persevere through our love of cheese and a helping of blissful ignorance, or face the fact that we may be lactose intolerant? According to the Mayo Clinic, the most common symptoms of lactose intolerance, when our bodies cannot
An entertaining video guide for families to learn about how pain works and how to have more control over your pain, your body and your experience during medical procedures. Created by, Stanford Children’s Health and Produced by Booster Shot Media ©2017 Learn more at http://pain.stanfordchildrens.org.
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Normal and Abnormal Breathing Patterns in Children Younger ones may breathe fast or slow In general, young infants breathe much faster than older children and adults. The regular breathing rate of a newborn baby is between 40 and 60 breaths a minute. Sometimes the respiratory rate may slow down 40 or even 30 breaths per minute
What Is On A Pediatrician’s Mind? Pediatricians have the task of pleasing or appeasing three or more separate persons at any given time of which only one is the patient and the others are parents and siblings (not forgetting the grandparents). Under such circumstances, the challenge, therefore, is to deliver care that society will deem
Our clinic is one of the leading destinations for children’s health in Roswell and Alpharetta. Today’s post is about falls and injury prevention. Falling is a normal part of a young child’s development as they learn to walk, climb, jump, run and play. Fortunately, most children who fall are not injured, other than a few
I have been a pediatrician for more years than I can count on an anatomically complete set of hands. My pediatric career started in 1998 in a city called Ibadan, in Nigeria. My initiation into the world of children started a couple of years earlier at University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu as an intern.
