[Updated June 8, 2023] It is with a heavy heart that yet again, I am writing about how to keep children and families safe and healthy through the wildfires that seem to affect more and more people and locations every year. My heart goes out to the
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[UPDATED March 2024] Now that you’ve figured out what your child is allergic to and how to lower their allergy bucket in my last blog post, Top 10 Ways to Lower Your Child’s Allergy Bucket, it’s time to learn how to manage your child’s allergy symptoms, naturally!
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(Updated December 19, 2023) We’ve all been there. You can’t wait for vacation to begin! You’re getting on a plane to visit grandma and the kid’s new baby cousin. But it’s cold and flu season, and the passenger right behind you is sneezing and sniffling the whole ride
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What is the biggest threat to the future of medicine? The biggest threat to the future of medicine is not what you think. It’s not the impending likelihood that antibiotic resistance may be the leading cause of death by 2050.[1] It’s not the burdening of our healthcare
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[UPDATED: September 26, 2021 to take into account data since the Delta variant became the predominant SARS-coV-2 strain in the US at the end of June 2021.] The World Health Organization acknowledged in its scientific brief on COVID-19 Natural Immunity dated May 10, 2021 (1) that: “Natural
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[UPDATED: September 26, 2021 to take into account data since the Delta variant became the predominant SARS-coV-2 strain in the US at the end of June 2021.] Some parents had already decided that they were going to be the first in line to get a COVID-19 vaccine,
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As many of you know, I am a huge fan of Vitamin C and Zinc for immune support during the pandemic. I teach about these supplements and more in my online course, Integrative and Functional Medicine Strategies for the Pandemic, and I have helped 100s of families
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We’ve all heard discussion around the potential negative consequences of remote learning, including: Social disconnection Academic loss Socio-emotional & developmental regressions But what about the complications that no one is talking about? The ones that may be preventable? The ones that we as parents can actually do
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Vitamin D – the “sunshine” vitamin – is literally my favorite vitamin in the whole wide world (although technically it’s actually a hormone, not a vitamin). And now, the world is finally giving vitamin D the place in the sun it deserves. The UK is giving all
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Could your child have PANS/PANDAS? Do you have a child who was totally “normal” one day, and the next day suddenly has new anxieties, fears, tantrums or rages, OCD behaviors and maybe even tics? Does your toddler have out-of-control tantrums, and your friends and parents think you
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As the start of the 2020-21 school year rapidly approaches, many of you have asked how I think schools should re-open. As a pediatrician who has cared for patients with COVID-19, a parent of 2 school-age children, and a mother of 2 children who had COVID-19 (1
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Who would you give up quarantine for? What would you leave the safety of your home for, expand your social bubble for, even get on a plane for? Maybe you, or your kids are totally stir-crazy and need to make that getaway happen before you drive each
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By now, many of you have heard that the UK has issued an “urgent alert” to all British physicians about a rare complication being seen in children called Kawasaki disease (1) – likely linked to COVID-19, upending our previous thoughts that children are “immune” to serious COVID-19
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