According to the March issue of Parents Magazine, there is a new blood test that will help indicated if your child has a dangerous bacterial infection like meningitis. If your son or daughter has a high temperature, usually over 100.4 degrees, emergency rooms can use this blood test instead of spinal taps or IV antibiotics.

Last year I had my ears tested for the very first time because I was having trouble hearing. I have always known that losing my hearing could be a possibiliy because my grandmother lost almost 90% of her hearing by the time she was 70-years-old. But, I did not know that I was going to be questioning my hearing when I was 30.
When they tested my hearing I had a significant loss in both ears, enough that I needed hearing aids in both.
I was stunned.
I was 30-years-old and I needed hearing aids in both ears? When I told my mother …read more

The latest news on Vitamin D is that kids need more. The previous recommendation (from 2003) from the American Academy of Pediatrics was 200 IU of vitamin D daily. Now they are saying that kids need 400 IU’s.
Dr. Frank Greer states that this could have life-long benefits.
Vitamin D helps build strong bones and prevents rickets (a common disease in developing countries and in institutionalized children like my son who was very borderline). Although rickets is uncommon in the US a recent study estimated that 40% of US infants and toddlers are deficient in Vitamin D.
The recommendation is for infants to …read more