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 PDACast.

It's a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from the campus of

nationwide children's hospital. We're in Columbus, Ohio. It is episode 32 for June 24th, 2015.

And we're calling this one poison ivy, tick bites, and sunburn. I want to welcome everyone to the show.

So we're going to go a little off our usual course today.

And to those of you who are regular listeners of the show, you know what our usual

course is.

We either cover news parents can use or we answer listener questions or we interview pediatric

experts like we did last week.

Today, though, I wanted to provide something useful for summer, since we are definitely

in the thick of it now with the 4th of July just around the corner. So I wanted a useful

summer show, and I got to thinking, what am I seeing this time of the year when I'm seeing

patients? What problems are the kids having? What are families asking about? The ones I see face to

face, because even though you aren't asking those questions, the ones that you guys have been

writing in, has of late have been on the more esoteric side. Things like erytheoma multiformi and

electromagnetic waves come to mind, which is fine. Don't get me wrong about that. I love

answering those questions. But there are also the common everyday questions. And even though you

aren't specifically asking, they are questions I'm sure many of you are thinking about. It's what I like

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