Well, I don’t hate it really. Well, it may turn out I won’t be rubbing anything in at all…
BUT…I found an article talking about food allergies in children and how they appear to be on the rise. There has been an 18% increase in children with diagnosed food allergies over the last decade, and this [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Allergies’
October 22, 2008
Hate to Rub It In…
October 31, 2007
Peanut Vaccine!
Uh…what?
That’s right…we’re creating peanut vaccines now to combat peanut allergies. That sure does make a lot of sense.
In a recent Newsweek article (cover story), the author wrote about how children’s allergies (particularly food allergies) are on the rise. One theory that is very prominent about trying to show why this is happening is called the [...]
September 9, 2007
Knowing Your Drugs
It’s important to know what different medications you’re on, what they do, and what side effects they have. Let’s face it, every drug has a negative side effect. It’s a synthetic chemical put in the body in an effort to (mostly) control symptoms. They side effects may not be readily felt, but that doesn’t mean [...]
August 3, 2007
Moms Reaching for the Bottle
The baby bottle that is…
More moms are breast feeding their children than in the past few decades, but…this trend of breast feeding isn’t continuing much past 3 months. Convenience and some pretty good advertising is probably the cause for formula feeding at an early age.
Breast feeding, however, is so important past those 3 months. The [...]
June 17, 2007
Vaccinations and the Immune System
Earlier I had pasted a link to Dr. Dan Murphy’s summary article on “Early Life Infections Improve the Function of the Immune System.”
In relation to the last post on antibiotic use and asthma, I’m going to repost that article here. Enjoy!
A 1998 article published in the journal THORAX titled Early Childhood Infection [...]
June 17, 2007
Antibiotic Use Linked to Asthma
People are finally catching up.
The following article was dated June 15 (found on Yahoo news):
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The use of commonly prescribed “broad-spectrum” antibiotics, which destroy a wide range of bacteria, during infancy may raise the risk of asthma later in childhood, according to a Canadian report in the journal Chest.
“Antibiotics are prescribed [...]
June 11, 2007
Vaccines!
As a chiropractor, I’m pretty much against vaccines. I’m especially against vaccines that seem useless – i.e. the chicken pox vaccine. Yes, it’s very contagious. Yes, it’s annoying. Is it really necessary we eradicate chicken pox? It’s not the plague, after all. With that said, maybe if you’re an adult who never had chicken pox, [...]
May 16, 2007
Practical Randomosity: Fighting Allergies!
The following was provided by the Iowa Chiropractic Association:
Millions of Americans alter their summer activities because of allergies. For many of us allergies mean not being able to enjoy a certain outdoor-part of our life. Doing yard work, playing golf, or taking a walk should all be part of [...]
