Originally published March 2018. Reviewed and substantially corrected August 2026 to reflect current NIAID, AAP and AAAAI guidance. Nobody has time to sort through the constantly changing, conflicting advice on infant feeding — and Google makes it worse, not better. So here is the current version, plainly. The old advice was backwards For years parents were told to delay allergenic … Read More
Fever in Kids: When to Worry and When to Relax
Originally published February 2018. Reviewed and updated August 2026 to follow current American Academy of Pediatrics guidance. Let’s start here: fever is not the enemy. Fever isn’t an illness. It’s your child’s immune system doing its job — raising body temperature slows bacteria and viruses down and revs up the cells that fight them. There’s no evidence that fever itself … Read More