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General health problems such as ear infections, pink eye and influenza affect nearly every person eventually. Dr. Rod Moser, PA, PhD, shares information and advice here on the most common general health disorders, their symptoms, treatments, and prevention.
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edenpictures / CC BY 2.0 I have a strong suspicion that dentists have been secretively stealing children's teeth, putting them under their own pillows at night, and keeping the money. I have discussed my conspiracy theory with dozens of children, many who have had tooth extractions where the dentist failed to give them their teeth.
What are your skills? What have you really learned in life that you use every day? We start early learning different skills and we acquire new skills throughout our lives. Babies learn quickly. They must first learn how to nurse . They are born with a natural instinct to suck, but they hone those skills quite rapidly. I had a mother in the clinic the other day with a three month old. She was concerned that he was not nursing well. He used to spend ten to fifteen minutes on each breast, but now he only spends about five minutes. I looked at this "little" baby - about 14 pounds, huge rolls of fat, no neck, and happy as a pig in mud. He looked like Buddha. I informed the mother that he was getting plenty of nourishment; it is that he is just more efficient getting it. Either that or he is ordering pizzas after everyone goes to bed.
Ever since I started in the Med Biz, I have been treating kids for otitis media (middle ear infections) the traditional way - with oral antibiotics. In the early 1970 (not that long ago), the standard treatment was ampicillin or sulfa drugs. Ampicillin invariably caused diarrhea and a nasty case of baboon butt, and the sulfa drugs would cause some impressive sulfa reactions , like a bright red, generalized rash. We now have a choice of about two dozen antibiotics that area effective (most of the time) to the bugs that cause middle ear infections.