Preventative Care: Claritin

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Alternative Health Care Question

My son is 15 months old and has constant colds; he wheezes when he gets them. His pediatrician prescribed QVar and Albuterol - 2 inhaled medicines -and she said he'll need to do QVar for the rest of the winter. Are there any alternative approaches to colds and wheezing? I don't like giving him chemicals repeatedly. I don't like seeing him sick and feeling crummy. I want to do right by my son.

Visits & Tests

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Can You Tell a Doctor No?

As my children are fairly heatlhy they don't go to the doctor very often. However, I had to take my 14 year old son in for a sports physical yesterday so that he can run track at his school. While we did get him a physical at the same time last year, the doctor wasn't available so we saw a physician's assistant. Therefore, this was only the second time this doctor has ever seen him in the last two or three years. At the end of the physical, the doctor let me know my son was flat footed. That obviously wasn't that big of a concern. The...