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Monthly Archives: March 2015
How Do I Get My Kids to Stop Picking Their Scabs?
Warmer weather is here! Time for shorts and tank tops and cuts and mosquito bites.
Posted in Babies!, Children, Pediatric Bits
Tagged mosquito bites, mosquitoes, scabs
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A Day’s Worth of Food: for Adults
Pyramids and plates and portions—for adults, here’s the day—
Posted in 101, Nutrition, Wellness
Tagged food, fruits, nutrition, portions, protein, serving size, vegetables
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How Do I Stop Getting Sick?
Fast fact: most viral infections enter the body through the eyes, nose or throat. It takes discipline, but don’t touch your eyes, nose or throat unless you have just wished your hands.
Posted in Children, Pediatric Bits, Wellness
Tagged colds, infection, prevention, sick
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Helping the Anxious Child and Teen
A little anxiety in normal in the face of new people and new activities. When anxiety keeps your child from activities or intrudes on family time, it’s important to understand how best to respond to your child and provide support. Parents … Continue reading
Posted in 101, Children, Health Care, Medicine, Pediatric Bits, Wellness
Tagged activities, adolescent, anxiety, anxious, anxious child, anxious person, CBT, children, cognitive behavioral therapy, learn, Michael Thompkins, teen teenager, worry, young adults
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When Should I Keep my Baby or Child Home?
Babies and kids can get sick up to a dozen times a year as they build their immunity to common childhood diseases. Each infection can last up to two weeks, so parents often wonder when to keep their child home … Continue reading
Posted in 101, Babies!, Children, DIY, Health Care, Medicine, Wellness
Tagged Bananas, colds, common childhood diseases, conjunctivitis, cough, diarrhea, fever, pink eye, strep throat, vomiting
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Vomiting and Diarrhea
How to treat vomiting is here. What to give a vomiting child to drink is here. How to treat diarrhea is here.
Posted in 101, Babies!, Children, DIY, Health Care, Medicine, Pediatric Bits, Wellness
Tagged BRAT diet, diarrhea, vomiting
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Casa Verde Pediatrics, Inc. 