Welcome To Right from the Start Pediatrics
Welcome to Right from the Start Pediatrics, where your child’s health and well-being are our top priorities. From newborn care to adolescent health, our dedicated team is here to provide compassionate and comprehensive pediatric care tailored to each stage of your child’s development.
We understand the importance of trust and communication, and we’re committed to partnering with you to ensure your child grows up healthy, happy, and thriving. Your child’s journey to a healthy future begins here.
Pediatric Care
Here at Right from the Start Pediatrics, we are proud to provide pediatric care to the little ones of our community! Our family medicine and medical aesthetics physicians specialize in preventing, diagnosing, and treating a variety of health issues in patients of all ages. Pediatric care is important to ensure the proper development and growth in children.
We are your one-stop-shop for all of your child’s health care needs. From well check ups and immunizations to sports physicals and treatment for illness, we are here to help your child experience a healthy life. For more information or to schedule an appointment, contact us today at (618) 526-8850 - Breese Office or (618) 526-8850 - Shiloh Office .
Statement by AAP President Dr. Andrew Racine on today’s HHS announcement about the childhood immunization schedule: ![]()
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“Today’s announcement by federal health officials to arbitrarily stop recommending numerous routine childhood immunizations is dangerous and unnecessary. The longstanding, evidence-based approach that has guided the U.S. immunization review and recommendation process remains the best way to keep children healthy and protect against health complications and hospitalizations. ![]()
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For decades, leading health experts, immunologists, and pediatricians have carefully reviewed new data and evidence as part of the immunization recommendation process, helping to keep newborns, infants, and children protected from diseases they could be exposed to in the United States as they develop and grow. Today’s decision, which was based on a brief review of other countries’ practices, upends this deliberate scientific process. ![]()
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During this uncertain time, the AAP will continue to publish our own childhood vaccine recommendations.”
Good morning! Well it appears the change in vaccine schedule is imminent - BUT NOT FOR ME. I follow those who know and will continue following what research has told me for 25+ years and what the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends. I am NOT going to stray from that. I will count immunizations that I feel are important and necessary as important and necessary.![]()
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Not quite sure what "make America healthy again" means when they're risking the health of children, who become adults, and who are all part of America.![]()
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Any questions about this, let me know, but know things are not changing here, at least with regard to immunizations.![]()
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Happy New Year!!!![]()
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at Right From the Start Pediatrics 🎄🎁
I may have said this a couple of months ago, yet we continue to get refusal after refusal. We doctors and “medical people” don’t make this stuff up. Vaccines often prevent illness, but more importantly they prevent what’s in this article (hospitalizations, and worse) and the New York Post is a rather conservative paper. ![]()
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And no, I do not have any conflicts of interest. I profit on vaccinating only by seeing my patients and their families live a happy and healthy life.![]()
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“So why is it so bad this year? For one, flu vaccines are on the decline, with fewer people than ever having gotten a shot this year.![]()
And even for those who did get vaxxed, their protection is not as good as it could be. Production on the flu vaccine starts about six to nine months in advance, meaning the strains it’s designed to protect against are a matter of prediction of how the virus will mutate. ![]()
Those predictions are based on data, and are often pretty good — but sometimes, like this year, they miss the mark.” But, though you may get ill, it is very unlikely that you will die from the flu if you get the vaccine.![]()
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‘Super flu’ sees spike in US hospitalizations — here are the symptoms to look out for
nypost.com
With peak flu season still going on until at least February, signs of the unusual “super flu” variant behind the rising sickness don’t seem to be slowing down anytime soon.