Tag: CDC
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Most new parents don’t know how to use a car seat correctly, vitamin D, and more: Pediatric Newsletter #11
Here is the latest of my more or less monthly newsletter on pediatric topics. In it I highlight and comment on new research, news stories, or anything else about children’s health that I think will interest parents. If you want to subscribe to it and get it in the form of an email each month…
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From the CDC: handwashing and checklists work to lower infection rates in central venous lines
Many patients in intensive care units, children included, require what we call a central venous catheter (line) or CVL. This is a plastic tube that enters the skin at one of several places — the neck, upper chest, arm, groin — and has its tip end up in one of what are called the central…
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Influenza vaccine is for everybody
Influenza, the flu virus, has arrived. It can be a serious infection, and it’s too soon to tell if this year’s epidemic will be as severe as last year’s was. When I first started in medicine, influenza vaccine was generally only recommended for the elderly or those with some serious underlying condition involving their hearts…
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How many colds are too many?
My child is sick all the time. If you are a parent of a preschool child, have you ever thought that? And, if you have, did you worry all those frequent illnesses meant there was something seriously wrong, some significant, underlying illness? Pediatricians and family doctors often hear this worry from parents. Preschool children have…