Advice and wisdom from health professionals
When I was in fifth grade, a friend and fellow classmate came down with hepatitis A. I knew that he enjoyed exploring the sewers around his home looking for lizards. Since there was no vaccine against Hepatitis A at that time, I had to have a big shot of immunoglobulin to prevent me from catching […]
School is starting all over the U.S. Children are coming together in classrooms to learn… and to spread illnesses. Children in schools often get sick. Sometimes they need to stay home. There are three main reasons to keep a child home from school and some guidelines for when this should be done. 1) Children who […]
Jane Varakin of Richmond knew that her daughter’s eyesight was 20-20 – Eileen had just had her eyes checked. Then why did the second-grader avoid reading and tell her mom that things were jumping and moving around the page and looked double? “I knew she loved to learn but why was she not interested in […]
Artificial food dyes are found in many of the foods that we eat and drink. They are manufactured chemicals that, by coloring foods and beverages, make them look more appealing to us. These dyes are also used to preserve the colors of certain foods or to make them look consistently the same across many batches. […]
Reading may seem like a natural skill, but the demands it places on the visual system are surprisingly complicated. That’s why for some students, reading is a struggle. Our eyes are designed to look straight ahead at a three-dimensional world, but the demands of school force students to spend up to 75% of their time […]
Periodically, I like to revisit the interactions between mothers and their daughters that I witness in the exam room. After all, there are a lot of new mothers and new daughters since I wrote my last column on the subject. The age of the daughter, like most things in pediatrics, often determines what happens in […]
Summer can be an ideal time for your children to practice reading by choosing books that interest them. This is just one suggestion by Dr. Rick Graebe, a behavioral optometrist and Vision Therapy specialist in Versailles. Other ways to help your child include: Read for fun Whether it’s comic books or picture books, find ones […]
At Your Hospital: All area birthing hospitals provide the following. Call them for details. Prenatal Breastfeeding Classes Lactation Consultant help during your hospital stay Lactation Clinic to return to after you’ve gone home On-Line: La Leche League International: www.llli.org American Academy of Pediatrics breastfeeding information: www.healthychildren.org/English/ages-stages/baby/breastfeeding/Pages/default.aspx www.kellymom.com http://womenshealth.gov/itsonlynatural www.dol.gov/whd/nursingmothers Prenatal Breastfeeding Classes: There are several […]
Much has been said and written about the bond between mothers and their babies. Fathers can also bond with their babies. Their presence and participation in the lives of their infants can be a positive factor in their development and for the family in general. A father’s part in a baby’s relationship can start before […]
Ever the innovator and admirer of cutting edge technology, Dr. Rick Graebe wasted no time adding a new device to his practice’s toolbox – RightEye. “The day the new portable model was available they shipped it to us,” said Graebe, a behavioral optometrist in Versailles. The new model features special software that helps measure eye […]
