Healthy Daycare Habits for Back-to-School: 3 Simple Tips
Back-to-school season is here, and healthy daycare habits become more important as families settle back into daycare routines. Lunches are being packed, drop-offs feel rushed again, and kids are adjusting to earlier mornings, new classrooms, shared toys, and more close contact with other children. If your child attends daycare, you already know what often comes […]
When Eczema Keeps Your Child Up: How to Stop the Scratching
When eczema keeps your child up at night, it affects far more than just their skin. Unfortunately, this is a scenario I’ve seen play out far too many times in my twenty years of pediatrics. A child with eczema can’t sleep because the itching is relentless. They wake up multiple times throughout the night, scratching, […]
Itchy Skin After Swimming? Natural Ways to Soothe Sensitive Skin
Does your child get itchy skin after swimming in pools, ponds, lakes, or the ocean? For kids with sensitive skin, eczema, or allergies, summer activities can sometimes lead to itchy skin after swimming, along with irritation, red bumps, and uncomfortable flare-ups. In fact, chlorine, algae, sand, sunscreen, and sun exposure can all contribute to skin […]
Easy Summer Eczema Prevention Tips for Kids: Swimming Edition
Summer should be filled with beach days, pool parties, vacations, and time outside—not worrying about eczema flare-ups. That’s why summer eczema prevention tips are so important for families who want their children to enjoy the season comfortably. One of our patients recently came in for a follow-up, and her mom shared something that made me […]
Briotech Skin Spray Benefits: How to Use This Summer
Many families are beginning to spend more time outside this time of year, between travel, relaxing at the pool, attending summer camps, and generally being on-the-go. And with that come all the usual things: sunburns, bug bites, breakouts, cuts, rashes, and germs. This is where I always like to think in terms of low effort, […]
Swimmer’s Ear: How to Prevent and Treat It
Swimmer’s ear (medical term otitis externa) is very different from the run-of-the-mill ear infection (otitis media). Swimmer’s ear is an infection along the ear canal, caused by the ear canal remaining moist for too long which leads to an ideal environment for bacteria to grow—thus creating an infection. In North America, 98 percent of cases of acute otitis externa […]
