

Ginger for pediatric gastroenteritis
Tummy trouble in kids? 🦠🤢 Viral gastroenteritis (also called the stomach flu) refers to inflammation of the intestines or stomach and typically causes diarrhea or vomiting. In adults the most common cause of gastroenteritis is Norovirus and Rotavirus is a culprit in infants. Antibiotics do not treat viruses, so what’s a person to do? A double-blind, randomised placebo-controlled trial published just last year in kids aged 1 to 10, evaluated the effects of ginger as a treatm


Is melatonin safe for kids?
The answer is complicated. Are you surprised? 🤪 The Canadian Sleep Society estimates that up to 25% of children suffer with sleep concerns (related to getting or staying asleep) and this number increases to 50-75% of children with physical or neurolodevelopmental concerns. Infants experience polyphasic sleep cycles and it is developmentally NORMAL for them to wake multiple times in the night until sleep cycles consolidate with age. Children are considered able to “sleep thro