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What's Going Around This Week

Last week, we saw a lot of kids with mildly red throat, low grade fever (if any), runny nose, and minimal cough. Symptoms were generally mild and seemed to last about 5-7 days. However, this virus was a real doozy for asthma. We had several kids with significant asthma exacerbations related to this virus, despite proactive asthma therapy.

This week, we have seen the same virus wrapping up its course, however, there's also been a few patients with diarrhea.
Stay tuned for What's Going Around next week.

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Just a reminder that we will be closed tomorrow, Friday, July 3rd, to celebrate the 4th of July weekend!
We will reopen on Monday, July 6th during our regular business hours.

We hope everyone has a fun, safe, and happy holiday weekend with family and friends!

Happy Independence Day!

Collagen!!!
You may think of it as an ingredient in skin care, but we think of it as the critical building block of connective tissues. It's like the bricks in your wall. What does it take to build collagen? You need:

*Amino acids
*Iron
*Vitamin C
*Copper
*Zinc

~B12 rounds it out to maximize collagen production.
~Vitamin D functions as a supporting actor by maintaining certain collagen-rich areas, like your bones.

Think of it like a recipe, and you need these ingredients. You could make chocolate chip cookies when you're low on ingredients, but if you only have a few chocolate chips, well, they're just not as good.

In our experience, patients with connective tissue disorders are exquisitely sensitive to changes in their iron status, and Dr. Stauffer hypothesizes that this is because iron is necessary for building collagen, so when your collagen is already mediocre (or worse) due to your underlying disorder, you're really going to feel it when your iron drops even to the lower half of normal. While amino acids, vitamin C, copper, and zinc are also necessary, deficiencies in these are rare in the USA. We find our patients feel better and function better when their storage iron (ferritin) is maintained between 50-100. We do this through oral iron and IV iron, depending on the situation.

What's your ferritin level?

Book Club: "On Doctoring," edited by John Stone and Richard Reynolds
This is a book of poetry about medicine and/or written by physicians about life. Dr. Stauffer says, "A few simple lines have defined me as a physician more than any other, and here is one of them."

"He Makes a House Call" by John Stone, MD (excerpt).But health is whatever works
And for as long...

On Doctoring Few subjects hold more universal appeal than that of medicine, and surely few books have evoked medicine's drama and magic more powerfully than On ...

This is happening now, down to age 6 months!

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We are passionate about iron deficiency!