Today's Guest Columnist is Dr. John Giuffreda, a family practice resident at the University Health Center here in Lafayette. It happens too often: mom takes baby out of the car seat because she is fussy, dad takes his eyes off…
In the past weeks the news has reported on stomach virus epidemics in several states. More than the usual amount of kids and adults have had vomiting, diarrhea, and fever. Though Louisiana wasn't listed, we in the pediatrics…
Today's guest columnist is Dr. Adam Giddings, a second-year resident in Family Practice at the LSU-University Health Center program here in Lafayette. Seeing your child with a nosebleed can be a very traumatic image. While it may…
It happens more than you think: the child clutches his belly, cries, rolls around on the floor, in obvious pain. Mom and Dad get worried- is this appendicitis? Is something terrible happening to our baby? They rush to the…
Its a great time of year to be a kid- swimming, biking, hiking, camping,and exploring. TVs, computers, phones, and other screens should be off when the sun is shining, and the kids should be outside playing and exercising. With…
There has been an unusual number of crib deaths in Acadiana recently. Crib death, or SIDS (for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) is a rare but devastating event where baby is found in bed dead for no apparent reason. We in the…
Every day families bring their kids into the Emergency Department with non-emergencies- runny noses, fevers, rashes, diarrhea. Many of those times mom is a little embarrassed, and says "I called my doctor and they were booked,…
Summer is coming. I last wrote about swimming safety, and two more popular summer activities for kids need to be addressed: biking and jumping on trampolines. Bike safety is nothing new to me. I grew up with a Dad who was a…
One day the ambulance brought in a 13 year-old who had almost drowned in a local hotel pool. He was awake on arrival, but everyone had a good scare. The pool had a deep end but no lifeguard. The boy could not swim, the parents…
Last week's blog post on eczema brought to mind two other common rashes we see in the Emergency Department: hives and poison ivy. We see hives a lot because it really does look bad, and is associated with bad allergic reactions…
