Your child is running through the playground when suddenly they trip. As they fall to the ground, their arms shoot out in front of them to break their fall. Afterwards, they complain of pain in their wrists. Whenever your child has a bad fall and braces themselves with their arms and hands, it’s common to worry about a wrist fracture or other injury. In this blog, we will go over how to tell if your child has an injury and what you should do as well as what treatment you

  When your child gets any sort of bacterial infection be it pink eye, a urinary tract infection, or an ear infection, the go-to treatment is usually a course of antibiotics. These kill off the bacteria responsible for the illness. However, some strains of bacteria are resistant to many of the usual antibiotics used. In this blog, we’ll cover one of these: MRSA. The good news is that MRSA infections in children are uncommon; however, they do occur, so it’s important to have some basic knowledge about them.   MRSA (pronounced MUR-suh) is

When what starts off seeming like a regular cold turns into a bad cough and signs of respiratory distress, your infant may have RSV or respiratory syncytial virus.  It can cause severe respiratory distress and, in some cases, may result in hospitalization for an infant. RSV is one of the most common causes of bronchiolitis (inflammation of the lower airways) and pneumonia (lung infection) in infants.  It is particularly troublesome in infants, but young and older children can contract RSV. In the older age groups, the illness manifests mostly as