Pediatrics

Reduce the Risk of Sudden Infant Death syndrome (SIDS): Crucial Advice for New Parents
by National Institute of Health
If you're a new parent, you want to do everything you can to keep your baby healthy. You probably already know that putting your baby to sleep on his or her back will reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the sudden and unexplained death

Feeding Baby: Nature and Nurture
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Parents of a new baby have a million things to do, but menu-planning isn't one of them. Until a baby is 4 to 6 months old, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner--and of course, the infamous middle-of-the-night feeding--the only items on the menu

Taking a Step on the Healing Path
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
In all truth, ADD cannot be treated in seven minutes or in seven days, and probably cannot be treated in a doctor's office. It has to be approached in the home, where there is a higher calling than just getting a child to be quiet and conform to the rules

Prevent Your Child From Choking : The Dangers of Choking
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Candy, popcorn, and even hot dogs can pose a danger to young eaters. Find out what you can do to reduce the risk. Peanuts and popcorn, hot dogs, candy, carrots, and sunflower seeds. Ayal Willner, M.D., has seen them all stuck in children's throats

Teenage Brain: A work in progress
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
New imaging studies are revealing - for the first time - patterns of brain development that extend into the teenage years. Although scientists don't know yet what accounts for the observed changes, they may parallel a pruning process that occurs early

A Pediatrician's Passionate Plea to Parents
Growing Up Healthy
by Joan Lunden, Myron Winick, M.D.
When I was a young pediatrician, the guiding principle of my profession was to ensure proper growth and development in children. Unlike other medical specialists, however, we pediatricians also had a particular interest in prevention.

Sharing the Journey
The ADD Answer: How to Help Your Child Now
by Frank Lawlis, Ph.D.
I did not begin to write this book last year or the year before that. I started this book when I was born, and I have edited it ever since. My birth was an ordeal for both my mother and me. She was given too much pain medication, by accident.

Kawasaki Syndrome Treatment
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The early signs of Kawasaki syndrome may mimic those of less serious childhood maladies, but left untreated it can be life-threatening. FDA recently approved use of a biologic with aspirin to prevent coronary artery problems that can result.

Test Your Baby's Hearing: Early Detection Important for Speech and Language Development
by National Institute of Health
Most children hear and listen from birth. But that's not true for all children. In fact, about two or three out of every 1,000 children in the United States are born deaf or hard-of-hearing. More lose their hearing later during childhood.

Preventing Childhood Poisoning : Signs of Poisoning
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Children poisoned with iron face immediate and long-term problems. Within minutes or hours of swallowing iron tablets, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and gastrointestinal bleeding can occur. These problems can progress to shock, coma, seizures, and death.

Newborn Hearing Screening and Testing
by CDC
All infants should be screened for hearing loss before 1 month of age, preferably before leaving the birth hospital. The age of a child when a hearing loss is diagnosed is important to the development of the child's speech, language, cognitive

Medications for Growth Disorders
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
When a child's growth doesn't progress normally, parents may seek medical help. Several new drugs can set a child on the right growth track, but their use is sometimes controversial. When a child's growth or development goes awry, it often dismays parents

Childhood Bed-Wetting
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Fourteen percent of 5- to 13-year-olds wet the bed, according to a recent population study. For many such children, like Patsy, the consequences are humiliation and damaged self-esteem.

Youngsters with Hemophilia
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A string of scientific and technological marvels have improved the picture for young people (mostly boys) with this blood-clotting disorder. But obstacles will have to be overcome to make the hope of a cure a reality.

Infant Botulism: The Cause, Symptoms and Treatment
by Health Canada
Infant botulism is caused by a food poisoning bacterium called Clostridium botulinum. When an infant swallows spores of this bacterium, the spores grow and produce a poison in the baby's intestine.

Your Child and Medication
by National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)
One in ten of America's children has an emotional disturbance such as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, depression or anxiety, that can cause unhappiness for the child and problems at home, at play, and at school.

Preventing Childhood Poisoning : Lead Poisoning, Iron Poisoning
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Although lead levels in food and drink are the lowest in history, concern remains about lead leaching into food from ceramic ware. Improperly fired or formulated glazes on ceramic ware can allow lead to leach into food or drink.

How to Give Medicine to Children
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Vigilance is key to making sure that medicines help, rather than hurt, children. Caregivers need to always be alert to several factors, including drug interactions, proper dosage, and possible tampering.

Dehydration in Children
by Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Dehydration as a result of vomiting and diarrhea is one of the most common problems of infancy and early childhood. Oral rehydration therapy, readily available in fluid form for home use, is saving children's lives both in the United States and abroad.

Young People with Cancer: A Handbook for Parents
by National Cancer Institute
Young People with Cancer gives you information on all stages of your child's illness. It tells you what to expect and suggests ways to prepare for different situations. It can guide you to become your child's best advocate or supporter.