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• The Problem with Testing for Food Allergies

  It turns out you may not need to buy that expensive hypoallergenic formula after all. After years of steadily rising allergies in kids, pediatricians are beginning to acknowledge that it might be the allergy tests, not the food, that’s the problem.The rise in false allergy diagnoses is due to a little something called modern convenience. Read More... Posted Feb 03 2009, 04:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: children, kids, food, picky eaters, soy, eating, families, blood test, allergies, dairy, food allergies, antibodies, milk, pediatricians, inaccurate results, food challenge, hypoallergenic formula, false positives, allergy tests, your kid may not be allergic, faulty allergy tests, allergies on the rise, inaccurate allergy tests, allergic kids, lower allergy risk, early exposure to peanuts, over-diagnosing allergies, misdiagnosed allergies, limiting foods, shellfish

• Chances Are, You Don't Know Jack

  Hi! You’re an idiot – at parenting at least. And so am I! That seems to be the upshot of this study authored by Dr. Heather Paradis, a pediatric fellow at the University of Rochester Medical Center, in New York state.  Paradis’ study found that parents have a surprisingly low level of knowledge about child development and what’s normal for children at different phases of life. More than 10,000 parents – more than 98 percent of whom were mothers – of nine-month-old infants were asked a series of 11 questions about children’s development. One-thirds answered four or more wrong. For example, many mothers didn’t know Read More... Posted Jan 12 2009, 04:30 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: parenting, toddlers, infants, child development, pediatricians, parenting knowledge, Dr. Heather Paradis

• AAP: Delayed Vaccines Too Risky for Kids

  Parents who have become wary of vaccinations for their children have been making the news for ahile now. But decisions by parents to simply delay vaccinating their kids seemed to have taken off this year. It’s a trend that’s alarmed the American Academy of Pediatrics – enough to prompt the AAP to publish an article this week, along with its new vaccination guidelines, that strikes at the core of the delayed vaccine movement. Read More... Posted Dec 30 2008, 08:24 AM by JeanneSager with | with 22 comment(s) Filed under: vaccinations, MMR, immunizations, american academy of pediatrics, dr. sears, vaccines, AAP, doctor's advice, Jeanne Sager, chicken pox vaccine, the vaccine book, pediatricians, delaying vaccines