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Category: Nothing to sneeze at….

  • Vitamin D isn’t just for Rickets anymore!

    While on vacation in the Florida Keys, I was impressed with how quickly my legs and forehead turned from white to lobster red…ouch another sunburn!  Surely there must be some benefit (and definitely beauty) for all this pain.  Your answer awaits….it’s Vitamin D. Natural medicine and traditional medicine often don’t see “eye to eye”, but…

  • Practice Makes Perfect!

    I had the privilege this week of watching my favorite sport….10 players dribbling an inflated ball up & down a court, trying to throw it through a steel hoop more times than the opposing team.  Yeah, it’s my passion.  The Thunder vs Bobcats and Oral Roberts University vs the Sooners of Oklahoma.  (little in state…

  • Happy Thanksgiving message

    If you’re anything like me, waking up on Thanksgiving morning brings to mind a flood of memories to truly appreciate.  Maybe its the intoxicating smell of turkey (and the tryptophan will make you want a nap)  mixed with pumpkin pie, or the anticipation of Christmas that entices us to slow down and reflect on what is truly…

  • Stay Up to Date with Food Allergy

    I always enjoy National Medical Meetings….good food, meeting old friends, and yes, even learning something!  The College of Allergy annual meeting was held in California just one week ago……and what are the hot topics this year?  Here’s an article and interview from Medscape about this year’s meeting.  Why am I interested? Dr. Portnoy was my mentor…

  • Some Kids are Just Over the Top!

    I always wonder about the emotional maturity of such “brainiacs”.  Is this perhaps me wanting to compensate for intelligence that only a few have? http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/06/child-prodigy-sho-yano-earns-medical-doctorate-at-age-21/1?csp=hf&loc=interstitialskip

  • Improvement in survival without new drugs!

    Truly remarkable how cancer survival has improved in children WITHOUT the addition of new drugs.  There is so much more to health than just taking more medication!  Allergy operates in the same way–good avoidance is first, followed by other aggressive medications. http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/story/2012-06-04/childhood-cancer-progress/55333892/1

  • A Cultural and Historical Examination of the Cough Drop

    What’s medicine and what’s just candy!  Read on to find out.  My own personal thought is many patients with vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) respond to vocal hydration which can occur while sucking on a cough drop/candy.  Maybe we’ve been treating VCD all along with HALLs!  Stranger things have happened. A Cultural and Historical Examination of…

  • The most intriguing medical facts of 2011 from American Medical News

    I’ll won’t include every important fact, but some of my own comments might be helpful. For every American who quit smoking in 2011, another became obese.   Wow, travel to Italy (Europe) and this becomes quit clear.  Europeans smoke; Americans eat.  In some ways we cancel our vices out….can you imagine what would happen if we quit…

  • Provocative study!

     Or at least as sexy as you can get for a vitamin.  Of all the vitamins out there, vitamin D has the most PROVEN benefit for allergies & asthma.  Remember the cod liver oil?  Of course you don’t….you’re not that old! Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol. 2012;12(1):13-17. © 2012 The importance of vitamin D as an essential nutrient is…

  • Sleep disordered breathing

    Often allergy patients have sleep disordered breathing and want to know if allergies contribute.  Most of the time, interruptions in your sleep due to allergy consist of congestion, snoring, sneezing, and possibly apnea.  Anything other than those symptoms should be evaluated for alternative causes.  Specialists dealing with sleep disorders are allergists, ENT (otolaryngologists) and pulmonologists.  There…