July 2017 - Elite Care Family Medicine

During the summer, it’s easy to let the video games, tv, tablets, and smartphones take up all our time. This week we’re inspiring parents and guardians to encourage their children to get outside and exercise.  So, if you have been thinking about changing things up, feeling like you need to play more with your children, or getting some exercise yourself, now’s the perfect time to turn over a new leaf. Children need 60 minutes of physical activity every day, but when...

You watch your children closely when they’re at the pool. You don’t swim anywhere there’s not a lifeguard, and you don’t leave your children alone with any amount of water not even in the bath tub. All the precautions in the world are never enough to ward off the latest fatal illnesses running rampant through your Facebook newsfeed. The latest of these articles happens to be dry drowning and secondary drowning. Drowning is medically defined as trouble...