Whats up, doc?

Whats up, doc?

April 2025   RISKS OF WATER BEAD INGESTION in Pediatrics, vol 155, issue 2, Feb 2025 pg.58. Here is a...
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April 1, 2025

Whats up, doc?

April 2025   RISKS OF WATER BEAD INGESTION in Pediatrics, vol 155, issue 2, Feb 2025 pg.58. Here is a new hazard for informed parent readers as Haugen et al describes the risks of water bead ingestion.   “Water beads consist of water-absorbent polymers made of polyacrylamide that can expand
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March 1, 2025

Juvenile Spring Eruption…Just when you think you’ve seen it all

I grabbed the chart of my next patient and was intrigued by what the nurse had written as the chief complaint.   It said, “Red rash on the ears”. When I entered the room, I was warmly welcomed by five-year-old Max who was playing with hot wheel cars on the
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February 1, 2025

Whats up, doc?

February 2024   An article by Juan E.De la Cruz-Mena, MD, MSc, et al entitled SHORT-TERM DUAL THERAPY OR MONOTHERAPY WITH ACETAMINOPHEN AND IBUPROFEN FOR FEVER: A NETWORK META-ANALYSIS appeared in Pediatrics, Vol.154, nu 4, October 2024, pg. 60.  This article shows that giving a febrile child acetaminophen and Ibuprofen
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January 1, 2025

Tonsil Stones

John is a 10 year-old patient of mine who was brought to the office for “possible strep throat”.   His mom said that she noticed that he had bad breath recently and when she asked him if he had a sore throat or felt warm, he said that he felt
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December 1, 2024

Whats up, doc?

December 2024   There was a very disturbing article in PEDIATRICS, by Bridget Duffy, BS, et al. “Characteristics of Fatalities Among Sexual-Gender-Diverse Youth in the United States: 2015-2020”, vol. 154, nu 83, Nov.2024.  This article stated the following, “Suicide was the most common manner of death for sexual-and gender-diverse youth,
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