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Entries from January 2009
January 12, 2009
A Spoonful of Sugar, Peanut Butter, or Grape Juice: How to Get Kids to Take Their Medicine
What is it about some kids? Some kids take their medicine (ok, expect the really disgusting ones) without a peep. Some even love the taste of medicines and ask for them when they’re not ill at all. I was one of these strange kids. Grape-flavored dimetapp was definitely incentive to develop a little sniffle. Most [...]
January 5, 2009
Here, Try Some Yummy Dog Food! (Kidding. Just Goldfish.)
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January 4, 2009
Dog Food May be Yummy, But Beware: On The Pet Food Salmonella Outbreak
My general philosophy about childhood is that kids should get down and dirty as much as possible. I think that dirt is good for kids (as are stubbed toes and scraped elbows). Builds character! So when parents tell me that their kid ate some sand at the beach or the playground, I tell them not [...]
January 1, 2009
Beginnings…
“I’m going to break my child!” Every day in my pediatrics practice in San Francisco, California, parents come into my office in a bit of a tizzy. Or a really big tizzy. It is my job, one in which I take great pleasure, to help to calm their worries. Who can blame parents [...]
A Pediatrician's Insights on Child Health, Parenting and Doctoring Kids
January 15, 2009
Tip for Masking Medication Taste
Does your child refuse to take medicine? Have you been sent home with a completely unpalatable concoction? In a previous post I wrote about a patient who refuses her medicine. I gave her mother this photocopied and pencil-annotated list, which is rumored to have been created by someone on the pediatric hematology-oncology service at University of California, [...]
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