Continuum Wellness News

Why make your own snack? First, consider the ingredients in the popular snacks, just don’t cut it if you are looking for healthier snack choices. Too much salt, hydrogenated oils, artificial colors and that’s just a partial ingredient list. We didn’t even mention the fat and the salt. And then there [...]

Tags: good snacks for children, healthy snack, make your own snacks, tortilla chip recipe, tortilla snacks

McNeil Consumer Healthcare is recalling certain lots of children’s and infants’ liquid Tylenol manufactured between April and June 2008. According to the company the recall is due to “an unused portion of one inactive ingredient did not meet all quality standards.”
The recall does not apply to children’s Tylenol meltaways or junior strength Tylenol [...]

Tags: drug safety, liver health, over the counter drugs, Tylenol 2009 recall

A new vaccine for swine flu is most likely to be targeted at vulnerable groups such as young children and pregnant women. But a Radio 4 documentary has discovered that little or no data exists on the safety or effectiveness of flu vaccines on these groups. (read more)

Tags: swine flu vaccine

The article below outlines some of the challenges that are thrust on a child when a parent is sad or depressed. Homeopathic care (with a qualified homeopath) can offer solutions to those seeking an alternative to allopathic care. Homeopathy is of help for the entire family and as the article below suggests, [...]

Tags: healing depression, how sadness effects children, sadness

If for some reason you need to take pharmaceutical drugs, protect yourself and loved ones by reading the package inserts. According to this research adverse drug events happen to the the tune of $3.5 billion dollars, and those are the reported incidents.
The new Food and Drug Administration drug package insert: implications for patient safety [...]

Tags: drug dangers, drug safety, drug side effects, patient safety

These prices reflect the current cost for a particular state as of February 2009. Thought some of you might like to know. Some doctors feel as the prices are high, here’s an article from the NY Times, here.
2009 List of Immunizing Agents and Average Wholesale Prices

Product Name, Company
Brand/Product Name
NDC Number
Unit
Dose
AWP/
Dose*

Diphtheria Tetanus acellular Pertussis [...]

Tags: costs of vaccines, immunizations, pediatricians

Sour Economy Sweetens Americans on Herbal Meds
The choice between $75 prescription sleeping pills or a $5 herbal alternative is a no-brainer for Cathy and Bernard Birleffi, whose insurance costs have skyrocketed along with the nation’s financial woes.
The Calistoga, Calif., couple seem to reflect a trend. With many Americans putting off routine doctor visits [...]

Peanut allergies can be deathly.  Seemingly no one knows why.  This may be partly due to a lack of connecting the dots and the partiality of some who do “research”.  As food for thought this article (here) provides some possible causes for this hypersensitivity.

Tags: cause of peanut allergy, children and peanut allergies, family health, infants, peanut allergies

What I love about this article below is that it captures succinctly a number of key points of homeopathic philosophy.  For example, that you are not your illness.  That the origins of a ‘disease’ that you are experiencing *today* may have ancestral roots.  But whatever the cause of the problem it has something to do [...]

Tags: causes of illness, energy medicine, healthy pregnancy, homeopathic philosophy

I posted a government survey here on this blog which concluded that 38 percent of American adults and 12 percent of American children use complementary and alternative medicine (here). The Washington Post did an article on this topic too (here)
Critics of these health care approaches are up in arms, claiming that acupuncture is a [...]

Tags: benefits of alternative medicine, who uses alternative medicine