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• When It’s Hot Outside, Protect Your Kids From Heat-Related Illness

  Now that summer break has arrived, families are starting to plan their outdoor activities and summer vacations. With warm weather ahead, it is a good idea to take note of the ways extreme heat can affect children and how to safely enjoy the outdoors.

• 3 Ways to Tell if It’s Eczema or a Skin Infection

  Eczema is a skin condition that affects many infants and children. Although its symptoms of dry, itchy and flaky skin are usually mild, eczema can become more than just a nuisance. The more severe forms of this condition can lead to skin infections when bacteria, viruses and other germs enter the body through bleeding and cracking skin.

• New guidelines on preventing peanut allergies: what you need to know

  Forget everything you thought you knew about preventing food allergies (well, not every thing, but some of the things).

• Your Child’s Migraines: How Modifying Diet Can Help

  Although certain foods can trigger migraines in adults, that is rarely the case for children. But food does play a significant role in preventing children’s migraines.

• How to use music to promote your infants development

  In our previous post, we talked about how some unpleasant sounds in your baby’s everyday surroundings can cause stress and negatively affect your baby. When sound is used appropriately, though, it can also promote healthy growth and development. One of the ways we can use sound to do just that is through music. 

• How to help your child achieve their New Years goal for good health

  This is a perfect time to evaluate your previous New Year’s health goals and make sure you and your family stay on track. Many families have goals such as eating dinner together, grocery shopping as a family, focusing on eating more vegetables, or going for nightly walks after dinner. Surprisingly, many kids also have their own goals they would like to accomplish. Supporting and encouraging your child while they tackle their goal is a great way to make sure they succeed. 

• Are you making the most of your child’s well visits?

  We often see our pediatrician for a specific complaint: ear infections, stomach flus or broken bones. And now that summer’s in full swing, many families will be making a trip to their pediatrician’s office for sports physicals and immunizations before the new school year begins. As we manage all of these items on our to-do list, it’s easy to forget that a visit to your pediatrician when your child is well is much more than a box to be checked off of your list.

• George E. Eldayrie, MD

  Sports Medicine

• Mario Enrique Zelaya, MD

  Mario Zelaya, MD

• Mary Farrell, MD

  Dr. Mary Farrell is a double-board-certified pediatrician and physician in chief with Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. She cares for seriously ill infants and children, including those with injuries from traumatic accidents, respiratory failure, septic shock, neurological emergencies and after complex surgeries. Her areas of expertise include: