Did you know: Symptoms of Celiac Disease can appear at any age after Gluten is introduced into the diet, and the only proven way to effectively manage this condition is to commit to lifelong Gluten-free eating habits? According to the Celiac Disease Foundation, children who...
Pertussis: A Multigenerational Cough By: Ruben J. Rucoba, MD “She couldn’t stop coughing, and she made a weird sound when she was breathing,” Lisa (not her real name) said. She brought her 6-week daughter, Julianna (also not her real name) into the office, and was anxious and...
The Importance of Eating Family Dinners Together By: Ruben J. Rucoba, MD With so much attention paid to what we eat, we often forget to focus on how we eat. Mealtimes should be a shared experience, and research shows that frequently eating dinner together as a family...
By Ruben J. Rucoba, MD “His cough sounds just like a barking dog,” Samantha (not her real name) told me. Her 3-year-old son, Emmitt (also not his real name), was up the night before, coughing that strange, barky cough. He had a low-grade fever and a...
By Ruben J. Rucoba, MD There’s been a lot of attention paid to which foods are healthiest to give to children, but less so to the liquids they drink. A new set of guidelines was recently created by a panel of experts from the American Academy...
By: Ruben J. Rucoba, MD Putting babies on their backs to sleep became the mantra over 20 years ago. With that simple maneuver, the rate of SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) dramatically decreased. But we saw a rise in plagiocephaly or flat head. This can be...
By Ruben J. Rucoba, MD. As our children head back to school, it’s important for parents of middle-school and high-school children to send a strong message about the dangers of vaping, or e-cigarette use. By now, most of you are aware of the very real consequences...
By Ruben J. Rucoba, MD Most kids went back to school in the past few weeks, and we’re already seeing the expected uptick in mild illnesses. While you can’t prevent all school-borne illness, here are a few tips to help: Make sure they get a good...
Dinner is really the ideal, and sometimes the only time we can all sit down together as a family and choose to make healthier food choices. Frequent family meals, which according to the Journal of Pediatrics & Child Health is at least three meals a week, can significantly...
Food allergies, in general, are an exciting field these days. Advances are being made on a regular basis for many of them, in terms of preventing food allergies, diagnosing them more accurately and predictively, and now in treating them as well. In the past, treatments focused on strict allergen avoidance with management of symptoms...