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It's National Poison Prevention Safety Week! Did you know that each year, half a million parents call Poison Control because their child got into a medication they shouldn’t have or took more of their medication than prescribed? Follow these medication safety tips to help keep your child out of harm's way.

For even more information on poison prevention and medication safety, check out Dr. Bear Bites on Instagram with Jennifer Q. Tran, director of the Children's National Safety Center.
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What is a pediatric gastroenterologist?

Did you know that digestive, liver and nutritional problems seen in adults are often quite different from those seen in children? Learn more about pediatric gastroenterologists and when your child might need to see one.
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Overcoming stranger anxiety in young kids

One of our readers recently wrote us because her 4-year-old daughter was having intense stranger anxiety at home, to the point where she refused to be left alone in a room. Read the advice our clinical psychologists gave her.

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