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Summer brings heat alerts, storm warnings, and—increasingly—air quality alerts. “For the nearly 5 million children in the United States with asthma, those air quality alerts provide crucial information that help parents plan their day and manage their children’s health,” says…
Sometime in the first few days after your baby is born, one of their health care providers will take a few drops of blood from their heel, with a very small prick. This neonatal test includes screening for immune deficiencies,…
As school days wind down and summer vacation gets underway, parents hope their children will spend more time out in nature soaking up the sun. While Alzein Pediatrics reminds you to slather your kids in sunscreen to protect them from…
Our providers at Alzein Pediatrics have seen thousands of newly born babies before they go home from the hospital. We know that even before Instagram was a thing, pictures of newborn babies were often carefully staged to show babies’ “best…
The American Lung Association estimates that over 4.2 million U.S. children have some form of chronic respiratory issue, which asthma being by far the most common. Respiratory illnesses affect your child’s lungs, and their ability to breathe freely. When your…
The healthcare providers at Alzein Pediatrics understand the intense pain of pediatric migraines. About 8% of kids experience migraine. Before puberty, both boys and girls are similarly affected; after puberty it is predominantly girls who suffer. As many as 2%…
Toddler temper tantrums usually happen when parents are most likely to be embarrassed; your place of worship, the grocery store or during a visit to a stuffy relative. A tantrum might even happen while you are visiting Alzein Pediatrics! Whether…
That first roll from front to back, the first unaided step, the first real word – these are important developmental milestones that can indicate your baby’s physical wellbeing and health. At Alzein Pediatrics, we know that there are other milestones…
The human ear is a miracle of evolution. Delicate tubes, whirling canals and the smallest of bones all work together to capture stereo, or binaural, sound helping us better detect the location and distance of sound. To achieve stereo optimization,…
One of the most successful vaccines in recent history is the HPV vaccine, protecting children from the human papillomavirus, which causes a variety of cancers. Since the advent of the vaccine, HPV infections that cause most HPV cancers have dropped…
