This is Pedicast.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome once again to Pediacast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike coming to you from the campus of a nationwide children's hospital. We're on Columbus, Ohio. It is February 4th, 2015, episode

number 307. We're calling this one adult congenital heart disease. I want to welcome everyone

to the program. So we're going to veer off the pediatric path a little bit today and talk about a

condition in adults, but it's a condition that starts at birth, persists through childhood,

and arrives at adulthood with a unique set of problems. And, you know, it's a topic that many of

you out there, you may have a child at home who has congenital heart disease,

and you'll be interested to know what's on the horizon. What will your kids be up against

during the adult years? So that's coming your way. First, though, I do want to remind you

about our hospital blog, 700 Children's. You can find it at 700childrens.org. Unlike many

health care blogs, we don't rely on one or two writers.

So we call upon the collective expertise of our entire institution.

So you get articles written by the experts themselves, which means they're full of great information from a source you can trust.

And some recent topics, kidney stones in kids, they're not common, but they're not

unheard of either. Debunking diabetes myths, the benefits of reading to your child, encouraging

youth engagement with their community. And then I love this one, the benefits of fluoride in drinking

water. So it's another one of those topics, yeah, kind of like vaccines, which lends itself to fear mongering,

and there's a lot of agenda-driven folks out there using fear rather than evidence to promote their position.

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