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It might be hard to change houses, but there are things you can do to to make a house less toxic to you and your kids…. Whole house air filter systems work better than portable units, and use uilt in or window unit air-to-air-heat exchangers in rooms where people spend the most time.
Category Archives: Health, Safety, and Medical
Throw out those baby bottles
April 21, 2008 – 8:34 pm
Bottle Maker to Stop Using Plastic Linked to Health Concerns – New York Times The problem for moms and dads is that this same plastic is used in other products including baby bottles. While Nalgene is the first to come out and remove the products, it will likely be a few weeks before all the bottle makers give an update on what type of plastic they are using for their bottles.
The parental instinct is present in all of us
April 4, 2008 – 8:48 am
Using a technique called magneto-encephalography that measures brain signals, the Oxford researchers found that a baby’s face can seize our attention in milliseconds, activating an unusual mental organ called the fusiform gyrus that responds to human faces…. So, if friends, or even your wife, are teasing you that you’ve gone soft around babies, maybe it’s not that you’re evolving, maybe just that we have as a species, to protect the little ones in our midst.
Good news for kids coughs given FDA proposed ban on children’s cough syrup – honey!
March 31, 2008 – 8:38 pm
From VITAL SIGNS; Tame a Child’s Cough With a Touch of Honey My daughter has a cold again tonight so I just made her two cups of lemon and honey mixed in hot water like tea. It didn’t make the cough go away magically, but she is fast asleep, and I’m feeling a little bit better that I didn’t have to make her drink some grape-flavored chemical.
My number is 22. What is yours?
March 21, 2008 – 3:28 pm
As a dad with small kids, staying in shape is less about looking good for the ladies, than it is about staying fit to chase the kids down and live an active life with them…. I just did 22 at the gym a few hours ago, so I’ll have to push this up a bit.
Public Health Risk Seen as Parents Reject Vaccines – New York Times
March 21, 2008 – 1:54 pm
You can find more childhood health articles at GreatDad.com health articles While nationwide over 90 percent of children old enough to receive vaccines get them, the number of exemptions worries many health officials and experts…. “The very success of immunizations has turned out to be an Achilles’ heel,” said Dr. Mark Sawyer, a pediatrician and infectious disease specialist at Rady Children’s Hospital in San Diego.
Life with kids – creating a different kind of life balance
March 20, 2008 – 12:57 pm
Life with kids demands putting a lot of things in a new perspective and people often use the metaphor of “balance” to describe how to keep it all together.
…Remain on one leg, stopping the watch immediately if you uncross your arms, tilt sideways more than 45 degrees, move the leg you are standing on or touch the raised leg to the floor.
Sex Infections Found in Quarter of Teenage Girls
March 16, 2008 – 8:10 am
As a dad with a daughter and a son, I am constantly conscious of how our sexually stimulated society seems to be sending sex messages all the time (Have you looked at Facebook recently under the “how do you know this person” section.
…The two most common sexually transmitted diseases, or S.T.D.’s, among all the participants tested were HPV, at 18 percent, and chlamydia, at 4 percent, according to the analysis, part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Government to Compensate Parents of Autistic Child
March 6, 2008 – 6:04 pm
Mike Stobbe, an AP medical writer, published an article today covering the press conference given by Terry and Jon Poling (Jon himself is a neurologist) who believe their 9-year-old daughter was damaged by the series of vaccines she was given when she was 18 months old. The government has agreed to compensate the Polings and [...]
Babies of Teen Dads at Higher Risk for Birth Problems
March 4, 2008 – 7:29 pm
A study published in the journal Human Reproduction reports that babies of teenage fathers (ages 19 and younger) are at higher risk of having problems at birth than babies born to older dads. According to a Reuters 2/6/2008 article about the study published on the Scientific American Web site, these babies are: 1) 15% more likely to [...]