Articles tagged with 'strep' | Checkup Newsroom

It’s allergy season in Texas! (Isn’t it always allergy season in Texas?) But, unfortunately, we also are in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has listed...

1. When a child has a sore throat, in general, there is a 37 percent chance that it is strep (Group A Strep, aka, Streptococcus pyogenes) 2. Fifteen-20 percent of kids WITH NO SYMPTOMS AT ALL will be POSITIVE FOR STREP if tested. This means 15-20 ...

Sniffling, sneezing, tummy aches and worse. A lot of things are in the air right now making kids and adults sick. So what are our physicians seeing? Halley Hogan, M.D., a pediatrician at Cook Children’s newest location in Prosper, Texas, took some...

“So, you’re saying my child has strep booty?” “Well, umm, uhhh, ummm, yeah I guess that is what I’m saying….And, now that I think about it, I will definitely be calling it that for the rest of my career.” Group A beta-hemolytic stroptoccal phar...

As the husband and son of teachers, I understand the importance of education. As a pediatrician, I want to make sure that kids are in school as much as possible so that the experts in education can do what they are called to do. Along with this go...