This is part 2 in the series about Child Diseases parents should all know about which came from an idea suggested by viewing another site that had a good idea but which plastered so many scam advertisements on the pages that I wouldn’t dream of recommending it.
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A few days ago I ran across a medical blog site which had the temerity to post with the title “Illnesses Parents Should All Know About” – talking about children’s illnesses of course.
I attempted to post a link to the page for you but found: First – the site tried to scam identifiable personal information before entering; and Second – it was so full of crap advertisements that I wouldn’t have endorsed the page anyway.
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This series of posts were some of the very first postings of my website. And, they came about because of how upset I was about finding a web-scammer who used the exact same title but demanded private information from parents before they could even see their full post!
In addition, once I filled in their form with fictitious information, their whole site was nothing but lies, half-lies and advertisements! I resolved then and there to make my own page to fight their self-serving rhetoric and misinformation, and mine would be free!
This is the effort. I covered pretty much all of the most common, most dangerous and most misled diseases I routinely saw; but, couldn’t do them justice in only one post so it became a series: Child Diseases.
“The talk” doesn’t seem to be enough anymore in the mine-field that is a teenager’s life where drugs and sex related issues are commonplace. Here’s a link to what the Mayo Clinic has to say about talking to your teens about sex.
Over 20 years ago, while I was in the service, a new method of testing diabetics for blood glucose control was “discovered” and I instantly seemed to know in my gut that it would revolutionize the care for the whole clinic full of patients I was managing – not to mention those kids at camp UTADA diabetic camp I saw every fall. (more…)
I’d like to talk today about a “new med” for “juvenile diabetes.”
By ‘childhood diabetes’ I mean the ‘type 1’ diabetes that used to be most predominant in childhood as opposed to the ‘type 2’ which used to be most predominant in adulthood. Two different diseases which, confusingly, have the same name.
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I’m sorry, but I just have to say it: “neaner, neaner, neaner. See I told you so!”
I know that some of you thought you had me when five out of seventeen studies showed “no correlation” between being treated for ADHD and prevention of the increased incidence of smoking in this group of kids.
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Recent advances in disease testing methods as well as research into contraception and infection issues has recently prompted a review and adjustment to guidelines for adolescent gyn or pelvic exams.
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Parenting advice – something that we all probably need at one time or another; but, something that is awfully easy to get tired of.
Especially with the arrival of a new baby, well-meaning-advice-givers seem to come out of the woodwork; AND, if you’ve “registered” anywhere online (more…)
Ok, it’s pretty much the last drive down the field for the high school home team who needs a touchdown to win and they are within 15 yards of the goal. On the first snap someone comes from nowhere and sideswipes the quarterback – now he’s lying limp on the field without the slightest movement.
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If you thought that you got a lot of parenting advice from people BEFORE the baby was born, just wait and see how many “well wishers” make contact with you after the little one arrives in order to give you the benefit of their extensive experience.
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Last weeks issue [Apr 25, 2014] of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), published by the Center for Disease Control (CDC) was quite disheartening in that it reported a new surge of Measles cases – a disease which was once on the razor’s edge brink of eradication.
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