Chicken Soup Denver

Chicken Soup Denver

Years ago, doctors routinely made house calls to visit sick children. Today, it’s a rare physician who provides this service. Instead, after-hours health care for an ailing child requires a trip to a crowded and noisy urgent care center or hospital emergency room, where a pediatrician may not be on duty.

Chicken Soup® was founded to provide Pediatric In-Home Urgent Care, serving the needs of parents and children when the doctor’s office is closed. We bring the pediatric office to your door, along with the confidence that your child is receiving expert care from a pediatric specialist.

Strep Throat

Strep Throat

We are smack in the middle of strep-throat season.  Parents, rightly so, are aggressive about screening their children for strep because early diagnosis and treatment can minimize time lost from work and school and make their kids feel better faster.   Just a few points to remember about strep and strep testing.  Over use of rapid [...]

Bronchiolitis – “How do I know if my child is getting worse?”

Many parents often ask me  how they can tell if their baby with bronchiolitis is getting worse at home.  Most people don’t have the benefit of having an oxygen monitor at home,  so parents need easy ways to tell if their child is getting worse and may need more immediate medical attention.  The most sensitive [...]

RSV stands for Respiratory Syncytial Virus

RSV stands for Respiratory Syncytial Virus

As February draws to a close, we are firmly entrenched in RSV season and I think it would be prudent to address some common questions many families have about this very common childhood illness.