Why well-baby visits are essential

It is crucial that you always keep the well-baby visit appointments with your baby’s pediatrician. These visits are designed at just the right stages in your baby’s developments to help the doctor check on the growth and development of your child.

New guideline primes San Diego pediatricians for peanuts

Released this week, the set of guidelines from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases recommends that doctors begin introducing some infants to peanut-containing foods as early as four months of age to reduce their chances of peanut allergy. The sweeping recommendation follows a seminal paper published in 2015 that showed early introduction of peanuts can desensitize the immune systems of children who are particularly susceptible to the allergy, preventing many from ever developing a dangerous and often-isolating condition which, in extreme cases, can cause deadly anaphylactic shock.