Children's Health

Grow­ing pains are noth­ing to wor­ry about and will come and go through­out child­hood, but have you ever won­dered what it means or why it hap­pens? Pedi­a­tri­cian, Dr. Mali­ni Kumar, explains what is actu­al­ly hap­pen­ing to a child’s body and how you can help.

Mar­ket­ed as a healthy alter­na­tive to smok­ing, vap­ing is a rel­a­tive­ly new trend that is grow­ing at a fast rate. In Sep­tem­ber of 2019, the Cen­ters for Dis­ease Con­trol (CDC) and the U.S. Food and Drug Admin­is­tra­tion (FDA) issued a pub­lic warn­ing, urg­ing peo­ple not to use e‑cigarettes. Pedi­a­tri­cian, Dr. Kevin Ger­mi­no, shares facts, risks and tips on talk­ing to your teens about the dan­gers of vaping.

Swal­low­ing is a com­plex process and some­times there are com­pli­ca­tions, such as dys­pha­gia. Our ENT depart­ment dis­cuss­es how dys­pha­gia occurs and how it can be treated.

Oto­scle­ro­sis, or ear drum scar­ring, can affect patients at any age and gen­er­al­ly wors­ens with time. After a patient under­goes a hear­ing test or audio­gram, an oto­laryn­gol­o­gist can deter­mine if a patient has ear drum scar­ring and if it can be treated.

How­ev­er you choose to feed your baby, mak­ing sure your lit­tle one is receiv­ing the prop­er nutri­tion can be a hard, chal­leng­ing, yet reward­ing jour­ney. At DuPage Med­ical Group, we are lucky to have two expert lac­ta­tion con­sul­tants’ on-staff, pro­vid­ing com­pas­sion­ate and com­pre­hen­sive sup­port to moth­ers and their babies.