Kids Health Blog with
Dr. Dina Kulik
Join Dr. Dina in her quest to providing great quality ‘kids health” information for parents, teens, and kids. Dr. Dina and her team of over 30 health practitioners share their knowledge with new content posted regularly.
Join Dr. Dina in her quest to providing great quality ‘kids health” information for parents, teens, and kids.
Kids Health Blog
with
Dr. Dina Kulik
The Latest From The Blog
Is Your Child At Risk For High Cholesterol?
Children and High Cholesterol Is Your Child At Risk? February is American Heart Month - high cholesterol and heart disease doesn’t just affect adults. As many as 1 out of every 3 Children has borderline or high blood cholesterol levels. Cholesterol is a...
Tricks To Manage Your Child’s Next Cold
It's Cold Season, Here Are Some Tricks TO Manage Them “Compensation for this post was provided by hydraSense®. Opinions expressed here are my own.” It’s that time of year again, the kids are sniffling, rubbing their noses and sneezing non-stop. Viral...
Kidney And Bladder Infection In Kids – Signs & Symptoms
Symptoms Of A Kidney Infection And Signs Of A Bladder Infection In Kids I receive a lot of urgent texts and emails from friends each week with frantic questions about their kids’ health. This AM the email was from a good friend who’s daughter was having...
Social Development In Children – The Tricky Transition into Child Care
Social Development In Children - The Tricky Transition into Child Care Daycare is a great place to foster social development in children. However, that first day of daycare is an extremely emotional time for most parents, especially mothers; not to...
Flu Shot or Nasal Spray – Which to Choose?
Flu Shot or Nasal Spray - Which to Choose? We can't deny that viral season is upon us. My office and emergency room is filled with children and parents with runny noses, coughs, fevers and fatigue. Many worry it's the dreaded enterovirus-68, with fear...
How to Check Children’s Temperature Correctly
Sick kids? Here's how to check children's temperature correctly when they're running a fever. It’s cough and cold season again, and that brings with it the dreaded fever. Boo! I am asked all the time what temperature is a fever and when to rush your child...
How To Reduce A Fever And Maintain Normal Baby Temperature Safely
How To Reduce A Fever And Maintain Normal Baby Temperature Safely Fever is the most common reason for parents to bring their children to my office. Sure, I see plenty of kids each day for routine well-child check ups, but regardless of the time of year,...
Fever in Kids and Babies – When It’s Serious!
Fever in Kids - Really That Scary? Throughout the year,the most common thing we see in the emergency department is fever in toddlers and babies. So is fever in kids scary? Parents are terrified of fever. High fever makes kids look awful. They are...
Family Relationships Inventory
Need to take stock of your family relationships inventory this holiday season? Here's some questions you should ask. Christmas vacation is a golden opportunity for visiting our family relationships and checking out how they’re going. Does one relationship...
Mindful Teaching Through Holiday Traditions
Holiday Traditions are Fun and Can Be Educational Too Many holiday traditions are simply fun activities during which families spend time and take part in together. However, it is important to remember our values are weaved through our traditions like...
How Parents Can Help Kids Handle Teasing and Bullying?
Parents Helping Kids Handle Teasing and Bullying? 75% of people report having experienced teasing and bullying. Some teasing can be friendly but if the person being teased is distressed, it is a problem. While it is a common childhood experience, it is...
How to Teach Compassion to Your Kids
To teach compassion to your kids is no small thing, but here's some ways to model good behaviour from Dr. Dina that will make it a little easier. I, like many North American parents, cannot stop thinking about the many families in Paris, Syria and Beirut...