Oct 27, 2022 | Illness & Infections
Work long enough in medicine, and eventually, you’ll hear the all-too-common phrase: “I don’t want to get the flu vaccine. Every time I do, I get sick.” The reality is that today’s influenza vaccines are all inactivated, as in “dead,” says Dr. Keyvan Rafei, MD, Chief...
Oct 26, 2022 | Illness & Infections
Cold and flu season has arrived. For parents of school-aged children – particularly families with multiple kids – that frequently means a lot of revolving sniffles, sneezes, coughs, and fevers throughout the fall and winter months. What is sometimes interesting,...
Oct 25, 2022 | Illness & Infections
Culex Wellness recently reported on an alarming surge in respiratory illnesses in local communities. While rhinovirus and enterovirus caused ER visits to increase over the summer months, an “unprecedented rise” in RSV among the nation’s children is now causing great...
Oct 24, 2022 | Illness & Infections
Colds and viral respiratory infections are incredibly common among children of all ages. They also seem to come and go pretty quickly, albeit miserably. But what many patients chalk up to a ’24-hour’ cold or flu has likely been hanging around for a week or more....
Oct 19, 2022 | Illness & Infections
Do you feel your child catches every cold, bug, and virus that comes along? Does it feel like every Friday you’re playing another round of “Name That Cough”? Does the staff at the pediatrician’s office shout your name when you walk through the door like you’re Norm...
