Performance-Enhancing Substances (PES) are used by children, teens, and adults to improve their athletic performance and for appearance changes. These can be dietary supplements, legal and illegal drugs, such as anabolic steroids, human growth hormone, creatinine, and stimulants. Which are common PES? What do they do and how do they…
Drug use, including alcohol and tobacco, is very common in teenagers. Parents have a major role in prevention, they are the strongest influence children have. Talking to our children at an early age, such as grade school, can help prevent such use and abuse of drugs. To be able to…
This has definitely been a very peculiar year! And here we are again, starting a new school year with a lot of questions and not all of the answers. One important question is what will the new school year be like? We know it is very important for children to…
You might have never heard about this word, maybe you’ve heard it multiple times, or even heard it said differently such as Infantigo. But what is this skin infection called Impetigo? What is Impetigo? Impetigo is a very common skin infection seen mainly in children that is usually caused by…
Have you recently heard about Kawasaki Disease? Have you heard about certain children getting very sick with COVID 19? Let me explain a little about these illnesses: Kawasaki disease (KD) known for > 50 years and the new Multi-System Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) related to COVID19. On April 26th…
How many of you are feeling that your children are having a hard time coping with all of this time inside your home? Are you struggling trying to find time for home-schooling, work, cooking, cleaning, having fun, and resting? Are your children acting up more than usual? If you answered…