Asthma is a disease of the lungs, and the most common chronic disease in children. Common symptoms of asthma include wheezing, cough, chest tightness, and trouble breathing. Asthma is likely caused by a combination of genetic and environmental factors, so it can run in families. Genetically, asthma, Read More
Asthma
October Is SIDS Awareness Month
SIDS. Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Those words bring fear to parents and pediatricians everywhere. By definition, SIDS is the unexplained death of an infant under one year old. For most of us, it is the unexplained and unpredictable part that is so tragic. Research does suggest that many of these Read More
Illness Trends in the Office
Pediatricians look forward to the week after Labor Day. Kids go back to school, giving a slow down to the crazy pace of summer physical season. Germs haven’t had time to circulate amongst classrooms and families. We breathe in the sweet air of September and gear up for the winter sick Read More
Back to School With Delta
Summer in Minnesota is always my favorite time of year. I look forward to lazy days spent in the sunshine on a lake. This year was even a little sweeter because the beginning of the summer coincided with a drop in the Covid-19 cases. For many people, the masks came off and people gathered again with Read More
A Mom’s Perspective
About a year ago, I wrote a blog about the Minnesota newborn screen. At the end, I told a story about a family of mine that had been picked up early on that screen for a deadly disease. What I didn’t say was that the mom of those boys is our much beloved Jamie McAnelly. Jamie was a pediatric nurse Read More
Common Injuries in Growing Athletes
Thanks to the COVID-19 vaccine and plummeting COVID-19 cases our kids are back to playing sports full force, yay! With this increase in activity I have been seeing a lot more sports related injuries this spring. There are two common causes of heel and knee pain that are unique to children and Read More