How docs spot, treat gluten sensitivities
Q: (From my seatmate on a plane, looking down at my open pediatric journal.) Are you a pediatrician? (Yes.) Have you ever diagnosed a child with celiac disease? A: Yes I have. My flight neighbor went...
View ArticleFor health of babies, breast-fed is best
Q: My daughter isn’t sure whether she wants to breast-feed her new baby or not. She’s worried about eating the wrong foods or taking the wrong medicines and making her baby sick. How can I help her to...
View ArticleTreatment options few for lung illness
Q: My daughter tells me that her son was diagnosed … with bronchitis. He was working really hard to breathe, and went home from the emergency room with oxygen but no other medicines. I thought...
View ArticleParent needs to help empower dyslexic child
Q My 10-year old has finally been diagnosed by the school system as having dyslexia. Though I wish he didn’t have it, making the diagnosis gives the school the chance to provide some services to him....
View ArticleAwaiting a cure for seasonal allergies
Q: I know it’s only February, but I’m dreading the coming springtime. Both my daughter and I suffer every spring from miserable allergies – our noses run, our eyes tear up, and her asthma is the worst...
View ArticleHow to react to child who ‘comes out’
A favorite cousin recently was married in her father’s backyard to the woman she had loved and lived with for more than a decade. It was a very festive occasion, though not one that could have happened...
View ArticleGenetic condition causes weakness in people's legs
Q: A friend, in his 40s, talked about the difficulty his pediatrician had in diagnosing Charcot Marie Tooth Disease (CMT), in his youth. I understand it is a hereditary condition and symptoms can occur...
View ArticleState Health Department helps protect the public
Q: There’s a Public Health office right across the street from your office. What do they do, and how does that affect my children? A: Many Americans think that health care begins and ends in their...
View ArticleAddress teen's pot use the right way
Q: Going through my 16-year-old son’s dirty laundry, I came across something that looks and smells like a marijuana cigarette. What do you suggest I do about this? A: Marijuana/weed/MJ has gotten a lot...
View ArticleInfants are checked for thyroid problems
Q: Why don’t you ever write about thyroid disease? I know kids still have diseases of that gland – aren’t they important? A: The thyroid gland is extremely important, as important as a car’s gas pedal....
View ArticlePediatric care has come so very far
Q: What has research in pediatrics done for me lately? A: A rhetorical question perhaps, from the people of the world. Recently, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the pediatric research societies...
View ArticleUpdated: How to keep your wee one safe in car
Q: I know that the number of children killed in automobile crashes has fallen in recent years, but any number is too high. As I am six months pregnant, I want to do all I can do to protect my baby girl...
View ArticleFolate before and during pregnancy can prevent a lifetime of disability
Q: (From longtime Albuquerque pediatrician and friend Scott Obenshain): Lance, your article about advances (in pediatric research) was heartwarming. The one missing breakthrough in the American Academy...
View ArticleWhen new ideas are not so good
Q: All of our vices are coming in new forms: solid alcohol and caffeine, liquid nicotine! What’s the world coming to, and what are the effects on our children? A: I sometimes wonder at the perfidy of...
View ArticleNot much consensus on use of pacifiers
Q: Now that I am a grandparent, perhaps you could discuss in a column some day some of the aspects of using pacifiers with young children. My wife thinks it may delay speech in those children who are...
View ArticleA plan to broaden scope of the column
Q: You’ve been writing about children’s health problems for almost 15 years. Aren’t you running out of columns to write? A: There are always more things to write about, even though I sometimes repeat...
View ArticleHow’s your kid doing? Find out
Q: School's on and I'm already worried about how my son will do. How can I figure out how it's going ...
View ArticleSports physicals are good for all children
Q: My ninth-grade daughter wants to play high school basketball this winter. Albuquerque Public Scho ...
View ArticleADHD can be tricky to diagnose and treat
Q: Last spring, my son was diagnosed with ADHD. He was very distractible, as if he had six movies in ...
View ArticleDisabled children benefit from better laws
When I first started in medicine, not so very long ago (in geologic time!), children with handicappi ...
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