What is NDD? Oftentimes parents bring their child to me for consultation on learning or behavioral problems at school. They typically open their concern with, “We and our child’s teacher believe he has A.D.D….” After taking a nutritional history, I often reply, “Your child doesn’t have A.D.D., he has N.D.D.” (A term Dr. Bill coined). […]
A Special Note From Martha Sears on the Baby Shower Celebrating Daughter Erin Saturday, December 1st, was a special day for the Sears women to celebrate middle daughter, Erin Elizabeth. We celebrated her (and baby) with a baby shower with family and friends. Oldest and youngest daughters, Hayden and Lauren, are part of this group […]
Dr. Sears’ Five Tips to Keep Your Children Healthy You might think that the school year brings sickness but there are ways to keep children healthy during the school year. Some children might be excited to get back to school but we all know that us parents dislike the germs, sickness and unhealthy school lunches […]
Dr. Bill’s Top Ten Parenting Tips Parenting, in a nutshell, is giving your children the tools to succeed in life. Here are ten parenting tips that I have tried to teach our children and have used in my medical practice during the past 40 years. 1. Get behind the eyes of your child. Parenting is […]
The Link between ADHD and Nutrition Are too many school kids being drugged for their D’s? We pediatricians dub October “D-month” because the kids have been back to school just long enough to get labeled. Most parents don’t understand how ADHD and nutrition are related. For example, a mother and her six-year- old son recently […]
Treating A.D.H.D. Now In the past couple of years many pediatricians, especially those in Sears Family Pediatrics, have changed the way we diagnose and treat A.D.H.D. Once upon a time, it was primarily treated with the pills model: “Child diagnosed with A.D.H.D., take this drug…” The new and improved way of treating A.D.H.D., and the […]
“I have a 3-year-old granddaughter whom I care for once a week. I have been noticing lately that she has had quite a bit of Desitin that had been placed inside her vagina. Is this safe? My granddaughter is in preschool now has been taught to use the bathroom by herself however, I assume that […]
“Three weeks ago my daughter found a knot in the right breast, just behind the nipple, of my 8-month-old granddaughter, the knot feels moveable and does not seem to bother her. We are concerned about this, her pediatrician recommended to just watch it for a while, she did order a cbc and sed rate, which […]
