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Table of Contents | 2010 | September
September 2010 | Pediatrics
Sleeping Like a Baby Catherine Darley, ND Infant sleep and the mother-infant dynamic. Food Introduction Controversies Michelle Gerber, ND, CPM Naturopathic Dosing Guidelines for the Pediatric Population Tamara Cullen, ND Includes liquids, powders, chewables,...
Dr Amy Terlisner NMD
Dr Amy Terlisner NMD Aletris Center 7425 E Shea Blvd #111 Scottsdale AZ 85260 Phone: (480) 998-2020 www.aletriscenter.com Articles: Uterine Ablation as a Treatment for Severe Menorrhagia Naturopathic Doctor News...
Dr Hanna Ian MS NMD
Dr Hanna Ian MS NMD The Naturopathic Physician, LLC 15436 West Statler Circle Surprise, AZ 85374 Phone: (623) 792-8889 www.thenaturopathicphysician.com Articles: El Curandero-The one who cures Naturopathic Doctor News...
Intelligent Care of Children
Sussanna Czeranko, ND, BBE Dear mother, experiment with regular meal hours without permitting anything to be eaten between. Laurette Kress (1925) If the school nurse examines your child and tells you [his/her] tonsils and adenoids must be taken out, stop and think. If...
Naturopathic Dosing Guidelines for the Pediatric Population
Tamara Cullen, ND NDs are trained to be excellent primary care practitioners and are confident in their abilities to care for their adult populations. When it comes to children, however, some providers feel they fall short in their knowledge and may be intimidated to...
Sleeping Like a Baby
Catherine Darley, ND Does the phrase ‘Sleeping like a baby’ bring up pictures in your mind of a baby sleeping deeply? Or does it bring images of a crying baby who’s been up every 2 hours all night? Somehow, both of these pictures come to mind for me. Sleep problems...
Tasty Herbal Options for Children
Jillian Stansbury, ND How many of you have ever struggled to find a botanical medicine that children would take? What can you do when children are too young to swallow pills, tinctures are a bit too vile to consume, and not enough tea can be consumed to do the trick...
“Welcome to the Jungle”: University of Bridgeport’s New Pediatric Teaching Clinic
Jared M. Skowron, ND In January 2010, I had a dream come to fruition. Thanks to the support of Dean Guru Sandesh Khalsa, ND, and Associate Clinical Dean Christina Arbogast, ND, a teaching clinic shift specifically and exclusively to treat pediatrics started at...
Demystifying Professional Formation
David J. Schleich, PhD Although in use for many years in the higher education literature about professions such as medicine, law, architecture, dentistry, and so on, the term “professional formation” continues to befuddle those who encounter it. Our own naturopathic...
Late Effects of Childhood Cancer: Tools for Identifying and Monitoring
Heather Paulson, ND, FABNO The number of adults who have survived childhood cancer is rapidly increasing. The likelihood that NDs will be responsible for monitoring the late effects of cancer treatment is also increasing. This article reviews the common complications,...
Asperger’s Syndrome and High Functioning Autism Treatment of Children and Teens
Diana Joy Ostroff, ND I had been treating children with autism-like characteristics for years before I had the opportunity of studying it in greater depth. It was always clear to me that although these children received similar diagnoses from their MDs, these children...
A Ball of Fire
Joseph Kellerstein, DC, ND Franklin, a 47-year-old male, had called the college clinic quite a number of times. Desperation is hard to watch. Rachel at the front desk patiently encouraged him to give homeopathy a try. “It won’t hurt,” she would patiently repeat....
Food Introduction Controversies
Michelle Gerber, ND, CPM Early parenthood is filled with difficult decisions, one of the most potentially fraught being that of food — how to introduce it, when to introduce it, and what to introduce. And few things seem more fundamental to naturopathic medicine than...
The Connection Between ADHD and Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Naturopathic Approach and Treatment
Stacy Bowker, ND As NDs, we are taught to find and treat the cause of our patients’ symptoms. In the case of children presenting with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), there can be a variety of individual causes and more commonly, multiple causes that...
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