February 2024 Although I have retired from my clinical practice I will continue to author informative articles for THE INFORMED PARENT. An article that appeared in JAMA, Association Between Earlier Introduction of Peanut and Prevalence of Peanut Allergy in Infants in Australia by V. Soriano, et al, 2022; 328 (1): 48-56 gave the […]
Read More →September 2022 SLEEP DURATION AND KINDERGARTEN ADJUSTMENT By Douglas M. Teti, PhD, et al.PEDIATRICS, Vol. 150, Nu. 2, August 2022, pg. 46 It is no surprise reading this article that promotes 10 hours of sleep for any kinder child. Despite this there are a number of children attending kindergarten who essentially are sleep […]
Read More →Recently I got a call from a family friend about her four-month-old grandson who was living in another state. She was concerned because the baby was having stomach issues that were causing sleepless nights for his parents. Always being a fussy baby things recently took a turn for the worse. Although he did spit […]
Read More →Looking at my schedule a “new” 18-year-old patient was next. The name seemed familiar. My office manager said that she had been my patient the first five years of her life but then the family had moved out of state. They recently moved back to this area. The young lady needed some immunizations for […]
Read More →A new family for the first time came in with their 4-day-old son. The mother had delivered at a hospital where her obstetrician was in another city. It was an uncomplicated vaginal delivery with mom and baby doing just fine. She was breast feeding successfully and the baby had started gaining weight with no […]
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