Child Safety

Halloween. It’s about dressing up in nutty costumes and making haunted houses and scaring the daylights out of your neighborhood kids. It’s picture-perfect moments with your cute little Storm Troopers and Wonder Women. But if you’re a kid, Halloween is all about the C-A-N-D-Y. It’s the one night a year …

It’s probably something that gets repeated every time you or your child visit the dentist: “Don’t forget to floss every day.” This is such an important routine to begin as early as when the first two baby teeth are touching; if there is not a wide enough gap for the toothbrush …

Northern Nevada offers a host of outdoor opportunities, many of which involve water — ironic in the desert right? As we gear up for the season, it is very important to remember safety is the responsibility of everyone who takes part in swimming activities. Often we direct our concern toward …

“You know how no one told you how hard it is to have a baby?” I heard my best friend’s voice say in a comfortably familiar tone through my cell phone, “Well this is me saying, if you get a puppy with a toddler, its going to be hard. This …

Dinner isn’t the only thing that needs to stay hot around the holidays. You can be married for all of ten seconds and fully grasp how hellish the holidays can be on your relationship. Your time, your energy, and your resources are going to everyone and everything other than your …

Breaking news - An unusually high number of viral/aseptic meningitis cases have health officials in Washoe County concerned, particularly since the outbreak coincides with a similar outbreak of viral meningitis in Susanville, CA. But what is meningitis? Meningitis is an infection of the thin layer of tissue around the brain …

Have you ever stood in your pantry or in front of a cupboard full of food and thought, “Well, which of these items is going to kill my kid?” I’m sorry if you have. Really. It is incredibly frustrating. Your child is diagnosed with food allergies, and your entire meal …

If you haven’t heard, several mosquitos in Washoe County have tested positive for the West Nile Virus. RUN! HIDE IN YOUR HOMES!!!! Just kidding. But truly, let’s have a discussion about West Nile Virus and why it’s important. West Nile Virus is a viral infection (i.e. antibiotics can’t cure it) …

It’s the time of year that anyone who has lived in Reno for more than a year knows all too well - we typically have at least a week-long stretch of 100-degree heat, and no, “dry heat” does not make it any less sweltering, people! Temperatures this high can be …

It’s inevitable. It’s 6 pm, you’ve worked all day and you’re hustling to make dinner and get the kids’ homework done, and someone drops the bomb. “Mom, I need my sports physical by tomorrow or I can’t play XYZ!!!!” As a family medicine physician, I can’t tell you how often …