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• They Say: See Your Dentist to Avoid Pre-Term Labor

  A new study from the Journal of Clinical Microbiology is estimating that up to 80 percent of pre-term labors could be caused by mouth bacteria—the kind that are usually in your mouth and don't cause much trouble there, but can cause an immune reaction and labor if they get into the bloodstream, say through a cut in the gum or cheek. Assuming further research bears this out (which it may or may not), it's one of those findings that I have very mixed feelings about. Read More... Posted Jan 14 2009, 10:00 AM by Miriam Axel-Lute with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: pregnancy, bacteria, pre-term labor, antibiotics, dentists, prematurity, premature, medical research, mommy police, Axel-Lute, tootbrushing, premature labor, flossing, causes of prematurity, oral hygeine, early labor, pregnancy scares

• They Say: Antibiotics For Preterm Labor May Do More Harm Than Good

  For most parents, the fear lurks that something you did to help your child -- supplements or prescriptions while pregnant, drugs during labor, or vaccines, for example -- will later turn out to have been harmful. A British study shows that to have potentially been the case for children of mothers who were given erythromycin during preterm labor when the membranes were intact. Standard practice is to give it when membranes have been ruptured prematurely, to lessen the risk of infection to both mother and baby, and some doctors give antibiotics even when the membranes remain intact but the mother has gone into labor too early. A study of more than 3,000 children whose mothers participaited in a widespread health study when they were born were tracked at age 7 to see what, if any, difficulties they may have experienced as a result of getting antibiotics. Read More... Posted Sep 23 2008, 03:30 PM by Amy Kuras with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: preterm labor, cerebral palsy, antibiotics, they say, ORACLE Children Study, functional impairment, British National Health Service

• Tyson Foods Big Fat Liars

  There was a great Seinfeld episode about a delicious "non-fat" frozen yogurt that actually made the gang pack on the pounds.  And ever since I saw it, I've wondered if there's an ounce of truth in the labels I scan so religiously in my never-ending attempts to feed my family healthy food. My confidence was hardly bolstered by the U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service's recent order to Tyson Foods to remove the claim, "Raised Without Antibiotics" from its chicken. Why?   Read More... Posted Jun 04 2008, 02:37 PM by Amy S.F. Lutz with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: antibiotics, Tyson Foods, food labels, U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service

• When To Call The Doctor

  When is a cough the sign of a medical emergency and when should it be treated with a tablespoon of Robitussin? When is it not a big deal that your child is in so much pain that “she acts like she’s possessed”? And should you ever give your toddler Gatorade? Thanks to Cookie for answering all of these questions in a concise article that details what to keep in your medicine cabinet and how to respond to any two a.m. attack of fever, nausea, earache, cough, or diarrhea. Read More... Posted Jun 03 2008, 05:30 PM by Hannah Tennant-Moore with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: Cookie, sick kids, antibiotics, diarrhea, fever, emergency room, nausea, earache, sick children, medecine cabinet, middle of the night, when to call the doctor, cough, dr. mom

• Baby Smells Awful? Like Hell!

  Americans are so obsessed with cleanliness and germs and anti-bacterial soaps we're creating a land of bubble babies (who are not allowed to fall down, eat dirt, or play freely)...  But baby cologne? This is going too too far!!   Read More... Posted May 14 2008, 05:01 PM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 9 comment(s) Filed under: children, baby, Her Bad Mother, germs, antibiotics, obsessed with cleanliness, beautiful, love for babies, eros, babies are beautiful, smelly babies, smelling babies, superbugs, antibacterial soaps, baby cologne, mommy off the record

• No Antibiotics for You!

  Dr. Alan Greene over at the New York Times Well Blog insists that most earaches don't require antibiotics. He cites the reasons we've all become familiar with -- they are bad for the good bacteria in your body, they are bad for the environment, they are ineffective, etc. But two things leap out at any reader.   Read More... Posted Mar 26 2008, 03:00 PM by Adrienne Martini with | with 18 comment(s) Filed under: new york times, bacteria, antibiotics, earache, Dr. Greene

• Superbugs are Superbad

  Superbugs, those anti-biotic resistant bacterial badacres that wreck havoc on our children's ears, and our otherwise hail and hearty good health are at it again. MRSA, a resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus, has typically been confined to hospitals, nursing homes, and the like. But no more... A new strain of MRSA is now spread through skin-to-skin contact even among healthy people... The ones who eat all their veggies even.   Read More... Posted Oct 22 2007, 09:59 AM by Rachael Brownell (Redsy) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: antibiotics, Superbug, super bad, mrsa

• Antibiotic Rocephin May Be Killing Newborns

  A drug used to treat lower respiratory infections, urinary tract infections, gonorrhea and other infections, may be associated with severe complications including death in newborns. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned doctors that the injectable drug, ceftriaxone sodium, known by its tradename Rocephin and made by Swiss drugmaker Roche Holding AG , when combined with other treatments, causes these complications. The other treatments mentioned include calcium and calcium-containing products, and has been known to cause fatal reactions in the lungs and kidneys of newborns. No matter how you feel about antibiotics in general, usually with newborns they're given when it's something serious. The fact that a medicine designed to save a baby's life may be killing him is hugely distressing. Parents of newborns are stressed to begin with, and being the parent of a sick baby is even more so. How, then, is a parent of a sick newborn expected to keep up with this stuff? Please, if you have a newborn, or know anyone else who does, watch for this drug.  Posted Jul 06 2007, 11:06 AM by Karen Murphy with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: health, newborns, drugs, Roche, antibiotics