Health

Summer First Aid

By Dana Sullivan, Parenting
Most kids can't seem to get through the day without a bruise, a scraped knee, or a bug bite of some sort. Here, some simple home remedies for the most common outdoor complaints

Sources: Howard Spivak, M.D., chief of general pediatric and adolescent medicine at New England Medical Center, in Boston; William Boyle, M.D., pediatrician at Children's Hospital at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center; Varro Tyler, Ph.D., professor emeritus of pharmacognosy at Purdue University; the American Academy of Pediatrics; the American College of Emergency Physicians.


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