Profound Thanks

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Russell Faust, PhD, MD, FAAP, ABIHM

Expressing my profound gratitude for your readership: for joining me here every month, for visiting, for reading, for sharing your stories.15,000 of you visit every month, some of you many times per month. Many have purchased items through my Amazon links, or purchased my eBooks. I appreciate your confidence and trust in me, and I am blessed to have you all in my life! Thank you.

Pediatric Recommendations: Some Valuable Resources

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It’s rare that I endorse products or websites. Here are two pediatric resources – valuable resources that will help you care for your children. These two sites have provided valuable information and products for our own family, and you will love them as I do. “You totally have to check them out.”

TESTING – CT Imaging the Sinuses

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Another family just came to see me, referred for “sinus headaches”. They bring a computer disc with them containing the CT scan of their 4-year-old’s sinuses. The child has had many CT scans. As we review them, it quickly becomes clear that no one has ever reviewed ANY of the scans with them. So I gave them a short course in “Reading Sinus CT Scans”. Here it is …

Reflux in Children – Causes and Treatments

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Review of Reflux in Children: Causes, and Treatments / Remedies. Without medications – natural remedies.

Is REFLUX Causing Your Child’s Asthma?

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About 75% of those with asthma have reflux symptoms. For adults, that means heartburn, burping. For children, they often don’t have classic symptoms. In fact, asthma or other respiratory disorders may be the symptoms in children. This brief post describes how to tell whether you should consider reflux as the cause of your child’s asthma.

Honey – Natural Antibiotic

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A review of why honey is such a great natural antibiotic, and how to use it to control chronic infections, including sinusitis.

Saline Sinus Rinses: What Good Are They? 4/4

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If you insist on making your own saline solution …

Before I switched over to the store-bought, Nasopure saline rinse system, this is the recipe I used for years:

Saline Sinus Rinses: What Good Are They? 3/4

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It’s one thing to have someone suggest that you should do saline sinus rinses. They usually won’t tell you how to do them, like it’s something too indelicate to discuss. Well, let’s discuss it now …

Saline Sinus Rinses: What Good Are They? 2/4

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Medical Evidence to Support Sinus Irrigations: A study from the University of Michigan (well-designed, and executed as a randomized, controlled trial of over 100 people with chronic rhinosinusitis) found that symptom severity and symptom frequency were significantly reduced in those who used sinus rinses on a daily basis compared to those who did not. Similar [...]

Some Good Books, and Other Stuff

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By my calculations, if only 138 Million of you click through my link to Amazon and spend $1,000 each, I will have enough to help support my Fig Newton addiction. That’ll happen, right?

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