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Lying Down With Your Children: Healthy or Not?
There is a lot of short-sighted finger-pointing when it comes to raising healthy, well adjusted, independent kids. One debate over which parents treat other parents very badly is whether or not you should lie down with your child at bedtime. Blogger Wendy Wisner feels this time in a child’s life when he even wants you…
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Advice From The Cough Expert
Does your daughter have a weird-sounding cough you’ve never heard before? Is your son suffering from a cough/cold combo that he just can’t seem to kick? Never fear, THE COUGH EXPERT is here! Dr. Peter Dicpinigaitis is nationally recognized as the cough guy–he’s a practicing internist (doctor of internal medicine), a pulmonary critical care specialist, and a professor of clinical medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York.
Shingles in Women
Shingles is a rash infection, which is the more severe and painful cousin of chickenpox. Once a person has shingles, the symptoms and treatments are the same for men and women. However, women who are pregnant or have a baby younger than 12 months need to take extra precautions to avoid becoming infected.
Head Lice Advice for Parents
Head lice outbreaks are common in schools and day cares, where children often play head-to-head, transmitting the bugs. Lice don’t jump or fly, and they can only live a few hours off of a head, but they can be difficult to get rid of. If your child comes home with head lice, don’t freak out. It’s not because she’s dirty or uncared for.