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How the Spina Bifida Clinic at Arnold Palmer Hospital is changing to offer even better care
Orlando Health has been providing care to pediatric spina bifida patients for over 35 years, treating patients up to age 21. The program is one of the largest and busiest spina bifida programs in the region with hundreds of children coming from all over Florida to receive optimal, multidisciplinary care.
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How to make healthier choices at a fast food restaurant
When you are hungry and on the run, sometimes picking up fast food is the most convenient option. For kids and parents alike, fast food is quick and tasty, but it can be loaded with unwanted fat, calories, sodium, and sugar. Fast food menus can be tricky to decode, especially for the inexperienced. Finding a healthy and well-balanced meal at a fast food restaurant can be challenging, but with the right tools it can be done.
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How to know when a child is having an allergic reaction to food
Food allergies can be a scary thing. If you have a child who suffers from food allergies, you know just what I mean. If you’re wiping your brow and muttering a silent thank-you that you don’t have to deal with food allergies in your household, wait just a minute. It’s true that the majority of food allergies are diagnosed in early childhood, but what you may not know is that about 1 in 4 severe reactions that happen in schools involve children with no known history of food allergy.
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Why your teenager’s friendships are more important than you realize
Adolescence is often panned in parenting circles as a season of child-rearing that is fraught with challenges and frustration. Gone is the child you thought you knew, and in his place stands an awkward, often unhappy stranger who understands himself and his own motivations about as well as you do, which is to say hardly at all.
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Should I worry about mold on my kid’s toys?
It is a troubling moment when you look at a toy that your child has been playing with nonstop over the past several weeks and discover a disgusting-looking black film on or inside of it. If you’re like me there are two thoughts running through your mind when that happens. First, is this going to make my child sick? And second, how could I be so irresponsible to let this happen? I should have paid closer attention or cleaned up better for my kids.
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8 reasons you may be planning to skip your child’s flu vaccine this year (and why you probably shouldn’t)
Only about half of the U.S. population will get a flu shot during the upcoming flu season despite overwhelming agreement among medical experts that every person over the age of six months should receive the vaccine every year.
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Is your preschool or daycare doing enough to protect your child from the flu?
Each year around this time we start talking about the flu, and we keep talking about it. Why, you ask? Because the flu is a real and serious threat for small children. Each year millions of children get sick with the seasonal flu virus, thousands of children are hospitalized and some of those unfortunately will die from complications of the flu.
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Living with Illness, Giving Back to Others
Walking the halls of Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, it’s not uncommon to come across the familiar faces of patients who are routinely admitted. Dayna Chavarria is one of those patients.
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Keeping Kids Safe During Halloween
The American Academy of Pediatrics wants to help you keep your kids safe, healthy and happy this Halloween with some easy-to-follow helpful tips.
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The one thing your children must learn to be successful in school and life
When we talk about preparing our kids for the future, we usually focus on the concrete challenges before us- teaching our preschooler their letters and numbers, helping our kindergartener learn to read, expecting our elementary school kids to come home with A’s on their report cards or pushing older kids to compete in sports and extracurricular activities.
