Welcome to my Mommy's Podcast!

This podcast is brought to you by SteadyMD and I have a story to tell you about them.

I love this Concierge Medicine Company because they have an amazing team of doctors and

they match you with one who shares your values and your health ideals.

This way, your doctor knows your full medical history and is available anytime you need

him or her for calls, video chat or text questions, which is what I usually use.

With their new family plan, you can ask questions about your kids and this is where the story

comes in.

Last year, I could only just now finally talk about this because it was so traumatic.

There was an outbreak of Empatigo in our neighborhood, possibly from a water slide that

all the kids in the neighborhood played on.

And if you don't know, Empatigo is a type of staff infection on the skit.

It was bad.

There were 30 kids with skin infections all at once.

It was pitiful to witness and they kept transferring it back and forth because it's highly contagious

and can live on surfaces for weeks or months.

So all of us were doing an extreme amount of laundry and cleaning and trying to stay on

top of it.

And all of my neighbors were having to take their kids to urgent care or to local doctors

and they were getting all kinds of opinions on the best type of treatment, ranging from

multiple courses of oral antibiotics to use of topical antibiotic creams or both

medicines.

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