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 in Columbus, Ohio.

It is episode 298 for October 15th, 2014.

We're calling this one essential oils, anemia, and a teething pain.

I want to welcome everyone to the program.

We have a listener episode of the show lined up for you this week,

so answers to your questions.

And I mentioned three of the topics in the show's title.

I'll get to the complete rundown here in a moment.

But first, I want to remind you about our 700 Children's blog.

It's available at 700children.org. Lots of great topics and trusted authors from the experts at

nationwide children's hospital. And you'll notice it's not just one author. So we

tap into the vast resources of our entire campus of physicians, hundreds of them, to bring you the information that you're looking for.

And just some recent topics that you'll find there on the blog,

The dangers of secondhand cigarette smoke and what to expect from ear tube surgery.

So you want to check those out.

And then there's also one that I recently wrote called the ABCs of Homemade Baby Food,

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