What’s better to give my child, Tylenol or Advil? Acetaminophen or Ibuprofen? We really shouldn’t be using brand names, but this question comes up often, and just like Kleenex or Band-aid or…
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Having trouble figuring out what to feed your toddler? Read our post for easy, healthy, and economical toddler meal ideas, featuring finger food suggestions. Spoiler alert: you can stay out of the…
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Does your child have an earache? In the aftermath of flu and croup season, we are diagnosing a fair share of ear infections. But not all earaches are due to ear infections.…
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“Should I give my kid the Gardasil® vaccine?” Friends and relatives, as well as our patients’ parents, continue to ask us this question. Our answer is always: “Yes.” Gardasil® vaccine is the…
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It saddens us that we need to post about how to recognize measles, but the recent measles outbreaks in the United States force parents to be vigilant for a disease that was…
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Wondering how to burp a baby? We decided that words just didn’t convey what to do. So we introduce baby Emma in her first, and our first, how-to-video. Any other video requests,…
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“I think we just hit the four month sleep regression. My baby used to sleep better, and now at four months, she is waking up every hour! What happened?” Sound familiar? The…
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Now that the weather has turned “freezy,” parents ask us how to dress their baby (and big kids) for cold weather. Even Dr. Kardos’s teenaged kids allow her to thrust winter coats…
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Does your child have dry, chapped hands? We can help with that. Read here for prevention and treatment tips. Naline Lai, MD and Julie Kardos, MD ©2019 Two Peds in a Pod®…
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Happy 2019! As 2018 comes to a close, we invite you to read our most popular three posts of the year. Here they are, in order of number of hits: #1: It’s…