Sep 7, 2023 | Illness & Infections
It’s back-to-school season, once again. And that means it’s “bringing germs back home from school” season, as well. It’s the perfect storm for viral infection; a combination of children being around one another in close quarters after a summer reprieve, the beginning...
Jul 5, 2023 | Illness & Infections
When most of us think of pink eye, or conjunctivitis, we often associate it with a common eye infection that can be easily treated with eye drops or ointments. But recent studies have shed light on a fascinating link between pink eye and respiratory adenovirus. And a...
Jun 8, 2023 | Illness & Infections
Many Marylanders stepped outside their homes today into an orange-tinted haze that smells far less like citrus and far more like sulfur. Smoke caused by Canadian wildfires that began erupting in early May has quickly drifted south. It first cast an ominous shroud over...
May 11, 2023 | Illness & Infections
Parents of small children know all too well the sharp, telltale cough that wakes the entire household in the wee hours of the night. It’s a dreadful, agonizing sound – somewhere between the bark of a circus seal and a broken foghorn. Most common during the onset of...
Apr 16, 2023 | Illness & Infections
All too often, contemporary medicine is conducted with an onslaught of testing that fails to get to the heart of problematic symptoms. Faced with a sick child, doctors immediately call for viral panels as a matter of course, a kneejerk reaction that does little to...
Mar 29, 2023 | Illness & Infections
Over the last several months, Culex Wellness – as well as every other pediatrician’s office, urgent care, and Emergency Room throughout the country – has noticed a significant uptick in gastrointestinal bugs and stomach upset in young patients. In addition to being...
