Northwest Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine

http://www.parents.com/videos/v/61651697/avoid-a-car-seat-mistake.htm Also, don’t buy used car seats or sell yours. Car seats have an expiration date because the plastics and belts weaken over many seasons of use and different temperatures. Our office will soon be collecting used seats for recycling. Contact Dr. Martin for more info.

As parents, we should always encourage our kids to be safe around the water, including taking swim lessons, swimming with a buddy or adult in the presence of a lifeguard, and understanding dangers like rip currents. Here’s a quick resource before you hit the beach. (Also, see the updated sunscreen guide linked below). http://oceantoday.noaa.gov http://ripcurrents.noaa.gov

We look forward to welcoming you to our new location at 810 13th St, across from Providence Hospital on your way up the hill, just before Jackson Park, with convenient access from Hood River Middle School and May St. Elementary schools. Our new space is slightly larger to accommodate our growth, and expands upon our […]

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/05/health/asthma-school-reinhardt/index.html It’s that time of year again. Our allergy and asthma patients are rolling in, many happily for preventive “tune ups”, including flu vaccines to help prevent the nastiness of influenza viruses on their respiratory system. Allergy and asthma testing has recently been enhanced at Northwest Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, in recognition of the role […]

We enjoyed being ridiculous in disco attire and having families join us for some great wood fired pizza from Focolare and bouncy house courtesy of Bambinos! It’s back to work now as we prepare with you for the back to school rush. Let’s send our kids to school healthy, prepared and ready to learn!

Judy Blume’s been back on the media landscape recently.  One of our favorite bastions of adolescent hopes and fears has been talking about a movie, directed by her son, based on her 1981 novel “Tiger Eyes”.  She’s also disclosed recently that her character Margaret from “Are You There God?  It’s me, Margaret”, was based on […]

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 […]

  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 […]