Monday update December 1st/;' FLU SHOT CLINIC!!

I hope everyone has a nice Thanksgiving. We had a lot of traveling patients who weathered the storms.

Right now most of the ill patients have the harsh cough/ congestion/ fever illness.
We are not bothering most patients by testing it, but I bet we are seeing a lot of RSV. The cough has a certain sound.

We are also seeing lots of strep throat. Most of the tests are coming up positive.
If you have a child with a sore throat, fever and not a lot of congestion, I think it is worth testing them.
 A lot of parents will report that their kids have pretty yucky breath when they have Strep, so give your kids a sniff.

I do think we are also seeing some Slap cheek around. The kids with this have one or two red cheeks on and off. Some also have a fever.

There is still some Hand Foot Mouth persisting, but I am seeing less of that.

There are some vomiting kids, many of those also have ear infections.
I heard rumors that there is some NOROVIRUS starting to spread, but I don't think we have had any here.
Finally I am delighted to announce that we are having our first Saturday morning weekend FLu Shot clinic this Saturday December 6th from 9 am-Noon.
We will give shots or mist to any of the Noe Valley Pediatrics patients and families.
 Parent vaccines are $40. We will be happy to give you a receipt, but we do NOT submit the paperwork to your insurance.
Of course for all of our patients we bill the insurance as usual.
Our vaccine is the Preservative free/ Quadrivalent made by Sanofi.

There is no appointment necessary!
Have a healthy week.
 Judy