Posted on June 10th, 2008
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Having medicine prescribed for your baby can be a sticky situation. You want your baby to receive treatment for whatever the ailment is, but on the other hand you don’t want to expose your baby to any medications [...]
Posted on May 24th, 2008
And before you scream at me, I think that’s a scummy title for a news report too.
ABC News reports that Harvard doctors seem to have found an increased risk of allergies and asthma in babies born to moms who were stressed during their pregnancies, and the effect was exacerbated by having dust mites in the [...]
Posted on May 7th, 2008
German researchers claim that having a dog in your home during your child’s infancy, reduces your child’s risk of developing allergies. Their findings were based upon a 6 year study of 9,000 children and were published in the European Respiratory Journal recently. The findings show that having a dog in the home is associated with [...]
Posted on March 28th, 2008
Call me thoughtless. Call me a terrible wife and mother…I don’t mind. I have two cats which I won’t part with, despite the fact that my husband is allergic to them. We always thought our kids were at least slightly allergic. My husband’s allergist told him that since he’s allergic to cats, it’s highly likely [...]
Posted on March 24th, 2008
We had two cats when my first baby was born. One of the cats predated my relationship with my husband, and the other cat was one that traveled with us from overseas. My husband and I were very attached to these cats until our first baby was born, and it became very clear [...]
Posted on January 9th, 2008
More confusing research results.
Parents, especially Moms, must be so wary of “expert advice” by now. I know I am. What with all the conflicting advice I get, I may as well hole up in a cave, raise my daughter the way I want and say phooey! to any expert advice.
New research published in the [...]
Posted on January 8th, 2008
Having suffered from allergic rhinitis most of my life and having required emergency care several times for allergic reactions to pain relievers and, of all things, pancakes, my husband and I have talked about what my allergies could mean for a pregnancy.
Fortunately, I was one of those whose allergies got better while I was pregnant. [...]
Posted on January 4th, 2008
Some more proof that passive smoking is not good for your kids!
In a study conducted in Stockholm, Sweden, over 4000 children were studied, followed-up and checked for allergic symptoms starting at age 2 months, then at age 1 year, 2 years, and 4 years old.
The results?
Children exposed to cigarette smoke early in life are more [...]
Posted on December 24th, 2007
The previous belief that children usually outgrow dairy allergies by the age of three has been disproved by Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Apparently only 19% of children outgrew this allergy by the age of 4 and 21% (over one fifth) of children still had not outgrown it by the age of 16. Those [...]