Avoiding Illness on Vacation

It’s a parent’s nightmare: You save for months, spend hours planning and tie up a zillion loose ends before going on vacation. Then on the second day of your trip, your child comes down with an illness. While it’s impossible to avoid sickness altogether, travelers can...

Spring Break Safety Tips

Spring break is just around the corner! If you’re traveling with the kids, don’t forget to check “Travel Vaccinations” off your to-do list. Our sister company, The Youth Clinic, offers Travel Clinics to help make sure you and your family enjoy...
Practice Safe Snow Days with These Tips

Practice Safe Snow Days with These Tips

Snow angels, snowmen and snowball fights are the ingredients for the perfect snow day! Prepare your little ones for fun and safe outdoor play this winter with these tips: Layering Layering is tricky. Too many and they’ll overheat; too few and they’ll freeze. The rule...
Common Sports Injuries in Children

Common Sports Injuries in Children

Roughly 75 percent of all families have one child involved in youth sports sometime in their childhood. With the sheer volume of children in athletics, it’s inevitable that sports injuries in children occur: More than 3.5 million children under the age of 14 receive...
What Is the Difference Between a Cold and the Flu?

What Is the Difference Between a Cold and the Flu?

The terms cold and flu are often interchanged, but they are not the same thing. Although a lot of the symptoms between a cold and the flu are very similar, there are key differentiators between the two. To understand the severity of your child’s sickness, this is the...
Tips for Preventing Sickness in the Fall

Tips for Preventing Sickness in the Fall

Fall is here! The leaves are changing, school is back in session, and, unfortunately, so are the sniffles and colds. With classroom germs, changing weather, and seasonal allergies, fall season sickness can feel unavoidable. The good news? There are proactive steps you...