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Strep Throat
Asked by A.H. from Dallas
on December 28, 2010
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I have 2 kids (4 1/2 and 18 months). They get strep throat constantly. The last 2 months they have been on antibiotics all the time. We have taken the oldest to the...
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- You should have your whole family checked to see if one of you is a strep carrier. Your regular pediatrician (if they are good!) can do the test. It can be someone i...
- Do you think one of you could be a "carrier"?
- Both of my kids got strep repeatably like yours. My oldest had strep 9 times in less than a year. My youngest got it 10 times in 10 months. The first time my oldes...
Information on Repetitive Strep Throat Needed
Asked by M.G. from Oklahoma City
on February 7, 2009
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My son has strep throat for the 4th time since NOvember. We get about two weeks in between and then he gets it again. He is on a new round of penicillin and we are g...
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- I had mine taken out at about 3, that was about 75 years ago. I know as a mother you do not like the idea of having him go under the knife at such a young age but not ...
- My son had strep throat a lot. This all happen when he was 3. It all started in Oct 05. From Oct 05 to April 06 he had strp throat 7 time. In Feb he had strep thor...
- We actually went through this same thing, except my son was 2 when we dealt with it. He had strep 6 times in 5 months for the 2nd year in a row. We saw an ENT speciali...
Strep Throat/Scarlet Fever Info
Asked by A.W. from New York
on February 27, 2008
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My 4yo had a rash for 4 days that was localized, then on day 5 it spread to her face. Pediatrician wasn't worried until day 4, went in on day 5 and she tested positive...
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- Hi A., Yes, my son (9) about 2 years ago or less went to school fine, the nurse called me by 10am with a high fever. I brought him home gave him tylenol he was f...
- My son just got diagnosed with strep too. He did not complain that his throat hurt, but I could hear it in his voice. Now he's complaining that his neck hurts, and he...
- My son is 5 1/2 he rarely has any sore throat or fever but presents with a runny or stuffy nose and a rash on his mouth. The first time he had this rash was with a co...
Tubes, Adenoidectomy, and Tonsillectomy?
Asked by L.M. from Denver
on March 29, 2011
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Hello,
My son is scheduled to have these procedures done next week and I am just wondering if any of you have had positive or negative experiences. A little histo...
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- Our experince is a bit different than yours, so I can only speak to our outcome. My daughter got tubes put in her ears on March 9th. (constant ear infections from Sept...
- Added: It is NOT too early to get help for speech. Intervention is never a mistake. Once he gets his hearing issue handled, it probably wouldn't take much help to g...
- If he has made improvements, I personally would hold off. (But we prefer the natural method when possible.....) Have you tried chiropractic care for his ear infectio...
Daughter Keeps Getting Sick
Asked by K.M. from Washington DC
on April 4, 2008
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I was just wondering if anyone had any suggestions for helping build up my daughters immune system. Mt daughter is 22 months old and since The beginning of the year s...
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- Hi K., you may want to consult and allergist. Your daughter may be allergic to certain foods or pollutants that are contributing to her sicknesses. There could also ...
- give her probiotics, get to a natural health store and they can help you. Also give her cod liver oil vitamin a in liquid form 1/2 teaspoon a day...the antibodics hav...
- Bless your heart!! Make sure everyone coming into the house washes there hands upon coming in the house! Buy probiotics for children and gave her straight probiotics...
Removing Tonsils and Adnoids for Chronic colds.....good Idea?
Asked by A.S. from Reading
on March 6, 2012
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my 2 yr old has has chronic colds runny noses stuffy nose coughing sneezing 3 ear infec. and also on daily breathing treatment for wheezing since june 2011 i go thursd...
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- I know that when my son was young he had issues with his breathing cause his tonsils where huge. It has helped him a lot getting them out. I don't know if it helps w...
- well tonsils actually fight infections and illness so I don't understand how that would help. I would think that they might need tubes in their ears but if the tonsil...
- It used to be pretty common practice to remove them. Now? Not so much. WHY do they want to remove them? Are they seriously enlarged?
How Do You Teach a Five Year Old Voice Control??
Asked by M.S. from Chicago
on December 19, 2009
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I have a five year daughter. When she talks she tends to talk very loudly, alsmost yelling. We keep trying to tell her to lower her voice when speaking, then she sta...
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- You need to provide her a model. When you want her to speak at a certain volume talk in that volume and say " when your voice sounds like mine, that's just right" repe...
- Agree with the suggestions to have her hearing checked- but if she is already working with a Speech Therapist, I am guessing that was suggested by her/him already. Wha...
- have you thought about music lessons? maybe there is a childrens choir somewhere she could join, and would (gradually) start to learn about different things to do wit...
My 10Yr Old Makes Weird Noises
Asked by N.L. from Dallas
on February 22, 2008
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My son will be sitting watching t.v and he will make noises, double wink his eyes, and moving his lips side to side. I have asked him why he does it and says cause he ...
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- Hi there - this sounds exactly like my cousin, who was 12 when he started exhibiting signs of mild Tourette's syndrome. It's nothing to freak out about, but I would d...
- I also have a 10yr old that started doing things like that a year ago. He would make little throat clearing noises and bug his eyes out while pulling his mouth and no...
- I used to do similar things when I was younger - making weird faces at regular intervals, and making weird noises out of my throat. It bugged my parents, too. In my ...
(Not Swallowing) UPDATE!
Asked by A.A. from Chicago
on June 9, 2009
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i know kids go thru weird eating phases, but i need help getting thru this one. it seems that ever since i started introducing whole milk into her formula she has been...
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- Kids sense their mother's stress, and it stresses them out. So if I was you, I'd stop worrying about it (or showing your worry). Offer her finger food she can feed her...
- I would call Child and Family Connections. ###-###-####. It is a free evaluation for your child's development. It is State funded . They come to your home or you can g...
- how many bottles does the little one have a day?? when we started the solid food we had to cut back on bottles. that helped a lot. good luch hope this helps
Headache in Almost 6 Year Old
Asked by M.Q. from Dallas
on March 14, 2012
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Okay, so my daughter, who will be 6 in May, came home 2 weeks ago from school and complained of a bad headache and just wanted to lay down and asked if she could take ...
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- sounds like a classic migraine to me. I have had them since I was 5 and my 9 year old has had them since 5 as well. I would speak your Dr. just to be sure, but when ...
- It sounds like a migraine to me. But I would get her looked at. I don't want to scare you, because I was the panicked mother just last week who raced my 6 year old son...
- Get her to her doctor just so he can rule out anything seriioius, but it sounds like a migraine. My daughter started getting migraines at age 10 and we finally discove...
