Stuffy Nose and Cough Remedies for Kids
Kids are not small adults. That may seem like something so obvious that it goes without saying. Yet for decades the doses for many medicines, including over the counter cough and cold medicines were set by just starting with adult doses and reducing them according to children’s smaller size. It turns out, this often does not work. Kids deserve better.
Before puberty, the hormonal environment within children’s bodies is significantly different than the hormonal environment in adults. Children’s bodies are set in the “rapid growth and development mode”. Young adults are in the “maintain an...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - February 26, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Colds Cough Remedies Stuffy Nose Source Type: blogs
Stuffy Nose and Cough Remedies for Kids
Kids are not small adults. That may seem like something so obvious that it goes without saying. Yet for decades the doses for many medicines, including over the counter cough and cold medicines were set by just starting with adult doses and reducing them according to children’s smaller size. It turns out, this often does not work.
Before puberty, the hormonal environment within children’s bodies is significantly different than the hormonal environment in adults. Children’s bodies are set in the “rapid growth and development mode”. Young adults are in the “maintain and reproduce mode”. Medicines that work well...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - February 26, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Colds Cough Remedies Stuffy Nose Source Type: blogs
Where there ’s Fire, there’s Smoke: Poor air quality, smoke and asthma treatment
When the wildfires hit Northern California, I knew it would be only a matter of time before the smoke drifted into the Bay Area and the air quality worsened. Predictably, children with asthma would be showing up in emergency rooms and urgent care centers to get breathing treatments for their increased wheezing.
And three weeks later there would be an increase in cases of pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infections*.
Smoke and Asthma Treatment
Let’s address why humans wheeze in the first place. Wheezing is an adaptive, protective mechanism. It’s a cool feature of the human body. When we encounter something ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - February 4, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Air Quality Asthma Fire Forest Fires Home Page Feature Source Type: blogs
Where there s Fire, theres Smoke: Poor air quality and asthma treatment
When the wildfires hit Northern California, I knew it would be only a matter of time before the smoke drifted into the Bay Area and the air quality worsened. Predictably, children with asthma would be showing up in emergency rooms and urgent care centers to get breathing treatments for their increased wheezing.
And three weeks later there would be an increase in cases of pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infections*.
Smoke and Asthma Treatment
Let’s address why humans wheeze in the first place. Wheezing is an adaptive, protective mechanism. It’s a cool feature of the human body. When we encounter something ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - February 4, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Air Quality Asthma Source Type: blogs
Where there ’s Fire, there’s Smoke: Poor air quality and asthma treatment
When the wildfires hit Northern California, I knew it would be only a matter of time before the smoke drifted into the Bay Area and the air quality worsened. Predictably, children with asthma would be showing up in emergency rooms and urgent care centers to get breathing treatments for their increased wheezing.
And three weeks later there would be an increase in cases of pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infections*.
Smoke and Asthma Treatment
Let’s address why humans wheeze in the first place. Wheezing is an adaptive, protective mechanism. It’s a cool feature of the human body. When we encounter something ...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - February 4, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Air Quality Asthma Source Type: blogs
Where there ’s Fire, there’s Smoke: Poor air quality and asthma treatment
When the wildfires hit Northern California, I knew it would be only a matter of time before the smoke drifted into the Bay Area and the air quality worsened. Predictably, children with asthma would be showing up in emergency rooms and urgent care centers to get breathing treatments for their increased wheezing.
And three weeks later there would be an increase in cases of pneumonia and lower respiratory tract infections*.
Smoke and Asthma Treatment
Let’s address why humans wheeze in the first place. Wheezing is an adaptive, protective mechanism. It’s a cool feature of the human body. When we encounter something toxic in...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - February 4, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Air Quality Asthma Source Type: blogs
Olive Oil and Garlic for Ear Infection Pain
In this study of about 100 children, the herbal drops worked as well as the prescription drops. This is great news, except the study is from July 2001 and Otikon Otic Solution is no longer available, or at least not in the United States.
From my perspective, eardrops of some type should play a large role in the management of ear infections. My favorite would be to use garlic oil for ear infections, in a potent high-quality extra virgin olive oil as a base. They would include mullein and other key organic and wild foraged herbs.
Many ear infections can be safely managed without antibiotics if children are given pa...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - January 14, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Bambini Ear Infections Garlic Oil Remedies Source Type: blogs
Garlic Oil for Ear Infection Pain
In this study of about 100 children, the herbal drops worked as well as the prescription drops. This is great news, except the study is from July 2001 and Otikon Otic Solution is no longer available, or at least not in the United States.
From my perspective, eardrops of some type should play a large role in the management of ear infections. My favorite would be to use garlic oil for ear infections, in a potent high-quality extra virgin olive oil as a base. They would include mullein and other key organic and wild foraged herbs.
Many ear infections can be safely managed without antibiotics if children are given pa...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - January 14, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Bambini Ear Infections Garlic Oil Remedies Source Type: blogs
Garlic Oil for Ear Infection Pain
In this study of about 100 children, the herbal drops worked as well as the prescription drops. This is great news, except the study is from July 2001 and Otikon Otic Solution is no longer available, or at least not in the United States.
From my perspective, eardrops of some type should play a large role in the management of ear infections. My favorite would be to use garlic oil for ear infections, in a potent high-quality extra virgin olive oil as a base. They would include mullein and other key organic and wild foraged herbs.
Many ear infections can be safely managed without antibiotics if children are given pain relie...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - January 14, 2019 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Bambini Ear Infections Garlic Oil Remedies Source Type: blogs
Saving Lives in Nepal with One Heart Worldwide
Follow this link for more information about One Heart Worldwide and their amazing work for mothers and babies.
If you’ve enjoyed this Podcast, please join us for another @DrGreene and @MsGreene audio series — Our unexpected African adventure to meet Jane Goodall & the chimpanzees.
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Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - December 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Maternal and Infant Mortality Nepal Non-profit Travel Source Type: blogs
Saving Lives in Nepal with One Heart Worldwide
Maternal and infant mortality is a huge issue, world-wide. When I met Arlene Saman, the founder of One Heart Worldwide I was excited by the results they were seeing and I had ideas for ways to make the work even stronger. It was my pleasure to join the board of directors in 2015 and watch the work grow. Until this year, I’ve only watched from afar, but in 2018 my wife (@MsGreene) and I had the pleasure of joining Arlene and 14 other people to see the work first hand.
Over the next few weeks, we will be releasing our audio journal of the trip. We hope you will join us on this amazing journey.
Click here for more infor...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - December 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Maternal and Infant Mortality Nepal Non-profit Travel Source Type: blogs
Saving Lives in Nepal with One Heart World-Wide
Maternal and infant mortality is a huge issue, world-wide. When I met Arlene Saman, the founder of One Heart World-Wide I was excited by the results they were seeing and I had ideas for ways to make the work even stronger. It was my pleasure to join the board of directors in 2015 and watch the work grow. Until this year, I’ve only watched from afar, but in 2018 my wife (@MsGreene) and I had the pleasure of joining Arlene and 14 other people to see the work first hand.
Over the next few weeks, we will be releasing our audio journal of the trip. We hope you will join us on this amazing journey.
The post Saving Lives...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - December 27, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Maternal and Infant Mortality Nepal Non-profit Travel Source Type: blogs
Your Gut Bacteria Get Jet Lag Too
Many processes in our bodies are orchestrated on a ~24 hour schedule called the circadian rhythm. Body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, the immune system, melatonin and other hormones, alertness and sleepiness, and much more, rise and fall over the course of a day timed by our internal clock.
When we travel between time zones faster than our internal clock can adjust, we experience jet lag. Our internal clock is out of sync with local time. We notice this with difficulty being alert during the day and difficulty sleeping at night. We might not notice it, but our physical and mental performance may be impaired as we...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - November 13, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Jet Lag Microbiome Source Type: blogs
Your Gut Bacteria Get Jet Lag Too
Many processes in our bodies are orchestrated on a ~24 hour schedule called the circadian rhythm. Body temperature, heart rate, blood pressure, the immune system, melatonin and other hormones, alertness and sleepiness, and much more, rise and fall over the course of a day timed by our internal clock.
When we travel between time zones faster than our internal clock can adjust, we experience jet lag. Our internal clock is out of sync with local time. We notice this with difficulty being alert during the day and difficulty sleeping at night. We might not notice it, but our physical and mental performance may be impaired as we...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - November 13, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Dr. Alan Greene Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Jet Lag Microbiome Source Type: blogs
More than a Quarter Million Antibiotic Related ER Visits
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that between the years of 2011 and 2015 nearly 350,000 children in the US were taken to the emergency department for adverse drug events caused by antibiotics – and that at least one-third of antibiotic prescriptions given to children are unnecessary.
Seven of the top ten drugs causing adverse drug events in children that lead to emergency room visits are antibiotics.
What’s the Cost of Antibiotic Related ER Visits?
ER visits average about $2000 each, so the total cost of ER visits for antibiotic side effects may have been around $700 million. And again,...
Source: Conversations with Dr Greene - August 28, 2018 Category: Child Development Authors: Alan Greene MD Tags: Dr. Greene's Blog Uncategorized Antibiotic Overuse Antibiotics Emergency Room Remedies Source Type: blogs
