How to protect your child from whooping cough

How to protect your child from whooping cough

Pertussis, known by its common name whooping cough, is a highly contagious disease that affects an estimated 48.5 million people worldwide each year, and results in almost 300,000 deaths.

These numbers seem extremely high, and it is partially due to the subtlety of the disease.  Symptoms are typically confused with the common cold and are worse at night, making whooping cough hard to diagnose.   

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Is your child's breakfast cereal doing more harm than good?

Is your child's breakfast cereal doing more harm than good?

Growing up, we were always told that cereal is part of a balanced breakfast.  

Many of us still hold this belief and have passed it on to our own kids.  But what if this American breakfast staple isn’t all it’s cracked up to be?  Could giving our kids fortified cereals for breakfast be doing more harm than good?

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