The Lake Shore Pediatrics Blog

Our Barrington office will be closed tomorrow.  Patients can instead be seen in our Libertyville office during normal Saturday hours, from 9am-12 noon.  Extra staff will be available to see patients and dispense medical advice.  Please call Libertyville at 847-362-5707 if your child needs to been seen.

Lake Shore Pediatrics just received our supply of Flumist, the nasal spray flu vaccine.  This season’s vaccine includes the H1N1 strain as one of it’s 3 components.  Flumist is available to children 2 years old and up if they have no history of asthma or reactive airway disease.  Please call and make an appointment for your child to receive this vaccine soon.

We are expecting our supply of injectible flu vaccine in the coming weeks.

The American Academy of Pediatrics has released a public service announcement discussing the importance of immunizing children.  Please visit www.ProtectTomorrow.org to view two short videos featuring people directly affected by vaccine preventable diseases.

We have recently been informed that our Barrington office will reopen tomorrow morning, May 20th.  Our phones will be turned on at 8:30am for appointment scheduling and/or health advice as we  resume our normally scheduled hours of operation.

Thanks again for your patience.

We were just notified by our building’s management company that the entire office complex housing our Barrington office may not reopen until Friday, May 21st (at the earliest) .  Apparently other offices were flooded and suffered damage during the storms, and every office space needs to be decontaminated before a single patient is allowed in the building.  Again, we apologize but please realize that this is not under our control.  Patients can be seen at our Libertyville office for the time being, and you may call for health advice by phoning Libertyville at 847-362-5707.

Status updates will be posted to this blog as soon as we receive them.

This morning (Thurs, May 13th) the Barrington area fire department closed the office building next to Good Shepherd Hospital for safety concerns due to flooding.  Our phone lines are being monitored by our answering service, and patients can been seen at either our Libertyville or Lake Forest offices for the time being.  Please call our Libertyville office at 847-362-5707 if you have questions concerning the health of your child. 

We will post an update as to when the Barrington office will reopen as soon as we have that information available.

McNeil Consumer Healthcare has issued a voluntary recall of ALL of it’s liquid Tylenol and Motrin products.  This includes Infant Concentrated Drops and Children’s Liquids.  Also included is Zyrtec sugar-free and dye- free syrup and liquid, and Benadryl sugar-free/dye-free liquid.  This recall is for products that “may not meet quality standards” and has not been associated with any adverse events.

Lake Shore Pediatrics has removed all of these products from our stock.

Follow this link for the recall press release and list of all recalled products:  http://www.mcneilproductrecall.com/page.jhtml?id=/include/new_recall.inc

As you may have read, a rotavirus vaccine named Rotarix was recentally recalled and further use suspended by the FDA due to discovery of a contaminant virus in the vaccine.  Lake Shore Pediatrics does not and has never used Rotarix.  We administer Rotateq at the 2, 4, and 6 month Health Maintenence visits to prevent rotavirus disease.  Rotateq has been thoroughly tested and does not contain viral contaminants.

Lake Shore Pediatrics is currently recruiting patients and families for 2 new studies being conducted by researchers at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.  “Fit 4 Kids” is a 2 year study for children between the ages of 4-10 and their families that provides an intensive program to treat obesity.  CMH’s “Food Allergy Study” is a multi-year program investigating possible causes and treatments of food allergies.  Click on the links below for more information.

http://www.childrensmrc.org/comp/

http://www.childrensmrc.org/allergy/study/

The Chicago Tribune recently published an article summarizing the findings of Britain’s General Medical Council, which concluded that the original article alleging a link between the MMR vaccine and autism was fraught with errors.  The journal Lancet has declared that “it never should have published the report” and that the study was conducted unethically and with “callous disregard” for it’s subjects. 

Read the article for yourself here: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-britain-autism-doctor,0,332817.story

Or read Time Magazine’s version here: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1957656,00.html