Roy Benaroch, MD

The Pediatric Insider 2020 Roy Benaroch, MD Concussions are a mild traumatic brain injury. Mild means you can’t see any damage on a CT or MRI scan but’s still an injury, and injured brains take time to recover. Symptoms like headache, brain fog, and trouble with mood, memory, and balance last on average 3 weeks in sports-injured teens. Three weeks is bad enough, but we know some teens have symptoms that linger far longer. [ 270 more words ] https://pediatricinsider.wordpress.com//getting-care-quic/

The Pediatric Insider 2019 Roy Benaroch, MD Ho ho ho! It’s time for my nearly-every-yearly, not-too-clickbaity, almost-useful holiday gift guide with a twist! Plenty of guides tell you stuff you should buy. We’re here to save you money, and maybe even save your child’s life. Here's a bunch of things you really shouldn’t buy this holiday season. Baby walkers [ 603 more words ] https://pediatricinsider.wordpress.com//the-holiday-un-gi/

The Pediatric Insider 2017 Roy Benaroch, MD Last week, I published an essay titled Goodbye, Benadryl It is time for you to retire. It generated, to use a precise term, a butt-ton of comments, almost all of which vehemently disagreed with my assertion that Benadryl is neither the safest nor most effective choice for most allergic symptoms. Here, I’ve revised the topic, looking at the most-recent published guidelines on the topic of allergies and their treatment. [ 1,104 more word ] https://pediatricinsider.wordpress.com//what-do-current-g/

Benadryl is an old, classic antihistamine. But there are far better choices now. This post really angered some people -- the comments are striking.

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The Pediatric Insider 2019 Roy Benaroch, MD Last week the Washington Post (Democracy Dies in Darkness) ran this headline: ’Horns’ are growing on young people’s skulls. Phone use is to blame, research suggests. The headline is entirely correct except for a few minor points: They’re not horns, which point up from the forehead. They’re more like little inch nubs protruding downwards from the back of the skull. [ 582 more words ] https://pediatricinsider.wordpress.com//cell-phones-are-n/