Antibiotic-Associated Diarrhea: How to Use Probiotics
Last year I had to take an antibiotic for the first time in about 10 years. Thankfully, I was prepared with my trusty probiotics and didn’t have to worry about antibiotic-associated diarrhea. There’s no arguing that antibiotics have done more to keep us alive than possibly any other medication, but they also impact the bacteria in the gut (our […]
Food and Environmental Allergy Testing Part One
General pediatrics is filled with kids who have chronic runny noses, poorly controlled eczema and asthma, and many of them need allergy testing.
How to Treat Constipation and “Bowel Accidents” Without Medication
The video below addresses the case of a 7-year old little girl who was having constipation and “stooling” accidents every day. She came to see me with three years of encopresis despite being on ½ capful of MiraLAX® (Polyethylene glycol 3350) daily. She’d also had recurrent urinary tract infections and was on a prophylactic antibiotic to help prevent any […]
