Our treats, however, are not cheap trinkets, though they are not expensive either. We purchase “lollipops” in bulk from the local health food store and small, inexpensive fitness items like stress balls. That’s why when the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced yesterday the recall of almost 70,000 charm bracelet and rings (for the fourth time this year!), we didn’t have to rush to our storage cabinet to pull carcinogenic items from our shelves. The items in this particular recall batch were distributed at doctor and dentist offices nationwide between June 2005 and March 2010.

Let’s face it, not everything “natural” is good for humans to ingest. Cadmium is a naturally occurring metal but it’s not harmless. As a chiropractor I find it especially disturbing that cadmium, if ingested, can weaken bones and kidneys. Federal regulators were justifiably concerned that small children could be exposed if they were bite and suck on these cadmium-laced trinkets. Any adult who’s been around children knows that almost everything that is put into a child’s hand ends up in a child’s mouth. Health care providers can’t claim ignorance of this universal fact.

I can remember getting a toy from my dentist when I was a kid, but “back in the day” those trinkets, made of plastic, rubber, and even wax, were relatively benign. Today with cheap imports and little regulation, more care needs to be taken by parents and definitely by healthcare providers!

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Parents are adverse to just mask symptoms with pharmaceuticals, and they are worried about side effects. Their desire to maintain a state of true health for their children has led parents to seek health care alternatives that support their child’s own inherent ability to be healthy.

Pediatric chiropractic care is that option. All children are stronger with 100% nerve function. The immune system is controlled by the nervous system. When it is functioning optimally, children stay healthier.  In the case of children’s health, “the best offense is a good defense.” Children are exposed to an extraordinary number of health-endangering illnesses every day that it would be inconceivable to immunize them against them all, even if there were such immunization available. Your Camarillo Chiropractor is very familiar with colds, sore throats, ear infections, fevers, colic, asthma, tonsillitis, allergies, bed-wetting, infections, pains, falls, stomach-aches, and the hundred and one little (and big) things children go through as they are growing up.

One of the functions of a chiroractor is to keep your child healthy and strong so that the illnesses that seem to be an inescapable part of childhood, either won’t affect your child as intensely or will not affect them at all. Chiropractic adjustments aids in removing interferences to the inherent healing power that runs through your child’s body. When that power is released, the changes that take place many times appear to be profound.

Furthermore, a child is less inclined to be injured at play or in sports when his or her spine is in alignment. In addition, children who are brought in regularly for chiropractic care don’t seem to experience as many “growing pains” as other children.

Today, we are finding at your Camarillo Chiropractor that more and more parents are bringing their children to us for general childhood health concerns. Every child is have the right to manifest their absolute potential. Chiropractic care for children at your Camarillo Chiropractor is safe, gentle and effective.

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