Posted by: drmolly in urine, kidney on
Aug 31, 2010
When your child goes in for a checkup you spend some time in the bathroom with your young kids helping them collect a urine sample. As you wash the excess pee off your hands, you must wonder what this urine test is looking for.
Urine is made by the kidney in a complex process whereby the waste products in the blood along with excess water are filtered out and sent from the kidney to the bladder. Urine then is a little snapshot of what is
Most kids finish up potty training by about 3 years of age. Nighttime dryness may take much longer to achieve, but daytime accidents should be few and far between.
This week I saw a 6-year-old girl in the office who had been having daytime urine accidents on a regular basis for a couple of years. Her family had moved into a new house just before the accidents started and she had started attending a new preschool, too. Her parents assumed
Every fall I have several children between the ages of 5 and 8 years old who come in because they are peeing all the time. The parents report the child will feel like he has to go every 10 or 15 minutes all day long and often will only have a little bit of urine each time. The typical child will still be sleeping all night but will start going very frequently as soon as he wakens and not stop until bedtime. It can be very disruptive to the
Summer usually brings hot weather, lots of time outdoors and sometimes kidney stones. For any adult who's ever had a kidney stone, you know the pain is intense and severe to the point that concentrating on anything is impossible. Sometimes the pain is so intense it leads to vomiting or literally writhing on the floor in pain, unable to even drag yourself to the emergency room.
Kidney stones in children are often much less intense. Instead,
Posted by: drmolly in short, picky eater, nutrition, kidney, hormone, height, growth, glomerulonephritis, genetic testing, feeding, development, calories on
Mar 10, 2009
Lots of kids are short. Let's face it, lots of adults are short and the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. Short parents are going to have short kids and tall parents will have tall kids, by and large. There are times, though, when tall parents or even average parents have shorter than expected children and these kids garner a lot of attention, especially if they are boys.
Short stature can present in a variety of ways. Some children are
Posted by: drmolly in strep, sore throat, rheumatic fever, rash, kidney, illness, heart, glomerulonephritis, fever, antibiotics on
Mar 10, 2009
Fever, headache, vomiting, rash and sore throat: any and all of these are the symptoms of strep throat. Many children have at least one case of strep throat at some point during their school years and frequently a note will come home from school alerting parents to the fact that their child is at risk. Strep throat often makes you quite sick and seeing the quick response to antibiotics (usually feeling dramatically better in just 24 hours)
