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 is 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 411 for August 8th, 2018.

We're calling this one Samanella, meningitis, and teenage endometriosis.

I want to welcome you to the program.

We have a full lineup for you this week.

Salmonella and meningitis both have been in the news and probably in your social media feeds recently.

We'll talk more about those topics in a couple of minutes.

Our third topic this week is one that affects teenage girls.

And it's an important topic because we, and by we, I mean all of us, parents, health care providers, teenage girls.

We may not consider endometriosis when an adolescent girl experiences chronic pelvic and abdominal pain,

especially pain that kind of comes and goes. In fact, there are many out there who may not understand exactly what this disease process entails.

Maybe you've heard of endometriosis, but you're not exactly sure what it is. So we'll explain

that as we move forward. And even if you do understand endometriosis, you know what it is. We

tend to think of it as a process that affects adult women and may not consider it, at least not

initially, in the differential diagnosis of a pelvic

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