Health
Pot: Today’s Cigarettes?
Pot, Weed, Dope- call it what you may. Smoke it, eat it, inhale it- whatever you like. It’s the miracle substance of the day. It will solve all your ailments with absolutely no side effects. Physical problem? Check. Emotional? Check. How is that possible? Haven’t we been sold this before? How can something so powerful […]
Read More....Treatments Around the Corner
What a rush! Next-Gen Food Allergy Drug Development Summit was unreal. A mere twenty years ago, if your child had an allergy, all you heard was that you had to stay away from the food. Doctors had no cure at hand, no treatment to support parents. Just one thing- stay away or possibly die. Unacceptable.
Read More....There’s More to Health Than Meets The Eye
Typically when we have a medical issue, we focus on our physical ailment and work to fix our bodies. After all, that makes sense: the body is malfunctioning, so let’s fix the body. But as human beings, we are not just our bodies. Science has now firmly established that our emotional and psychological outlooks and […]
Read More....The Story Behind The Story
Dr. Swati Gandhi and I recently collaborated on Navigating OIT. This guide is designed for parents helping their children through oral immunotherapy or tolerance induction therapy. If that is something you are dealing with, this book is for you- from how to manage it from a parenting perspective to specifics on recipes and going through […]
Read More....What About The Drinking?
What stuck with me through the Kavanaugh #MeToo cancellation is that no one talked about drinking. Drinks are such an acceptable part of our culture that no one even dared suggest that maybe… just maybe, we should all do something other than drink with each other every time we hang. We revel in stories of […]
Read More....I’m Against ID Bracelets. How About You?
People love allergy bracelets for their kids. I don’t. I think they do far more harm than good. But first, what is it? It’s a bracelet that your child wears that lists all their allergens so that adults who interact with them will be aware of what can trigger a reaction. (For those who don’t […]
Read More....Is Your Allergic Child Disabled?
Regardless of how you answered that question, it is a fact that many parents with children with allergies treat their children as disabled. We think they cannot do for themselves. We feel the need to protect them. We demand that others accommodate their disability. It’s interesting, isn’t it? We live in an era when we […]
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