http://www.oeconline.org/our-work/healthier-lives/tinyfootprints/eco-healthy-homes-checkup-kit Stop by our office for your own copy of the Healthy Homes Check Up Kit! Check the link above to get your own copy, and make sensible choices to protect your family from health hazards that are in most of our homes…because we spend money to bring them home via the grocery store. Talk [...]
How about some BPA, lead, and pthalates to go with that organic garden?
It’s an iconic thought from my childhood, remembering drinking from the garden hose while out doing yard work. Makes me cringe now when I realize that not only was I ingesting bacteria (water + heat in a hose grows bacteria), but lead (leached from the hose and its brass fittings), BPA, and pthalates (among [...]
2013 Sunscreen Guide – Safer sunblock for your child
http://www.ewg.org/2013sunscreen/ Use this link to evaluate the safety of the ingredients for various sunscreens. Keep in mind that they are rated based on the safety of their ingredients, not by how well they work or how convenient they might be to apply. I’d recommend checking them out on a vendor site and reading buyers’ comments [...]
From Sniffle to Sniffle: Out with Colds, In With Allergies! Prevention Here:
We’ve been thrilled to start to see a winding down of cold and flu season, though many of you who’ve been here recently can verify it’s not gone entirely yet! However, we seem to be starting immediately into allergy season, as verified by Yours Truly, The Most Allergic Person In The Valley. I consider treating [...]
We’re Excited!
Of course, we’re big Finding Nemo Fans here, and we can’t wait for the sequel! Especially if Ellen says the story is a good one! More info here: http://www.stack.com/2013/04/06/finding-nemo-2/ On top of that good news, we’re working on an Open House and some additional exciting announcements! We’re so appreciative of our patient family and all [...]
Talking With Your Child About Tragedy — And Remembering the Children of Newtown With Prevention
Globally, hearts are broken over events in Newtown, CT. We’ll be helping lead a discussion locally on the many ways we can make improvements that will help prevent this from recurring here. The response will be thoughtful and multifaceted as the problem, so constructive ideas that move beyond extreme opinion will be encouraged. Contact us [...]
Safe Travels to all of you traveling over Christmas!
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/north-america/travel-tips-and-articles/77521?affil=huffpostmod Travel safely and avoid germs for you and your loved ones. If you haven’t yet gotten a flu vaccine, now’s the time to get one to give your body some time to develop immunity before the holiday deluge of germs from all your well wishing friends and family! Here’s a few quick [...]
Flu Season is Here! Get protected.
http://thechart.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/03/flu-season-ramping-up-early-experts-say/?hpt=hp_t3 Click on the above link, or cut and paste it into your web browser.
Pictures with Santa – THIS SUNDAY 1-5 – Columbia Gorge Hotel – Benefit
A joyous event to help give a chance to one of our favorite Hood River kiddos who’s fighting a rare form of cancer. Volunteer work and donations by Northwest Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, Photographer Erin Tegeler, Rosauer’s, the Hood River News, Walgreens, the Columbia Gorge Hotel, and the Hood River Fire Dept, who will [...]