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.
What Role Does Genetics Play in Illness?

The outdated use of genetics says that our genes are fixed and we will likely have the same diseases our parents or grandparents had.
What You Need to Know about Preventing and Treating the Flu

In the winter of 2011, Sandra brought two of her four children to my private practice in Charlotte, North Carolina. It had been a difficult flu season for everyone in the family except her son Hasan, who hadn’t shown any signs of illness. Sandra’s daughter had tested positive for flu and after checking on her […]
RSV: What Parents Need to Know

RSV, respiratory syncytial virus, is in the daily news. It is not a novel illness, but this year the RSV season began earlier and has struck harder than those in recent memory. RSV symptoms include: RSV is a common respiratory virus that causes symptoms similar to a cold. This doesn’t discount the gravity of contracting the […]
Chronic Constipation: Is it Something in the Diet?

Between 5-30% of children are constipated. Here’s how to address this condition