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Vaping & The Risks
Cloud chasing has become quite common among teenagers and young adults, even among a few of my own not-so-little ones unfortunately, and...

Dr. Penny Lane
Oct 5, 20223 min read
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Pancreatic Exocrine Insufficiency
Maldigestion is a challenging presentation for clinicians as a plethora of concerns can be at play. One that seems to be commonly missed...

Dr. Penny Lane
Sep 29, 20227 min read
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Does Your Jaw Click? TMJ Disorders
One of the more common findings upon clinical exam, or even while taking a client's history, is TMJ. They often don't report it when I...

Dr. Penny Lane
Sep 27, 202213 min read
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Rosacea: More than Just a Red Face
Rosacea is a common condition, and unfortunately chronic for about ten percent of people with fair skin. It is generally more common in...

Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 30, 20228 min read
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Ladies? Funny odor? Embarrassed? Let's Talk.
I should have written about this a long time ago. It's a very common, grossly misunderstood women's health issue. So common in fact, that...

Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 21, 20228 min read
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Mononucleosis: The Kissing Disease
As one of the many herpes viruses, this one living in the epithelial cells of the pharynx and parotid duct, #mononucleosis infects about...

Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 19, 20225 min read
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The Battle of the 'Opathies
I've mentioned I am reading through a book published in the 1870s regarding the #vaccine controversy, Which Sanitation and Sanatory...

Dr. Penny Lane
Aug 2, 20224 min read
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Oppositional Defiant Disorder
Although nursing school was more than twenty years ago now... woah, no, almost thirty years ago, I can't say that I remember learning...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 8, 20229 min read
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Sensory Integration Disorder
While once thought to be one in the same with autism, we now recognize sensory integration disorder as its own specific...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 4, 202213 min read
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Sensory Integration Disorder
While once thought to be one in the same with autism, we now recognize sensory integration disorder as its own specific...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 4, 20229 min read
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Von Willebrand Disease
Von Willebrand disease (VWD) encompasses a group of inherited bleeding disorders related to qualitative or quantitative defects of von...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jul 1, 20227 min read
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Hemochromatosis: Iron Overload Disease
My entire life my hemoglobin has been high and I always joked that clearly I was meant to be a mountain girl, because high hemoglobin...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 28, 20229 min read
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Asthma in our Little Ones
Common in childhood, #asthma usually presents as wheeze, breathlessness, chest tightness and #cough, many times at night. Too often these...

Dr. Penny Lane
Jun 17, 20228 min read
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Headaches after Concussion
In my clinical training as a family nurse practitioner, I remember it being pressed upon us that the medical community has largely failed...

Dr. Penny Lane
May 18, 20229 min read
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Speaking Up is Extreme Self-Care
A few weeks ago I wrote "Did you say Meaty Vagina? You're an Idiot" and had loads of private messages, thank-yous, and shared posts but...

Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 27, 20227 min read
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Lyme Disease
The most commonly reported vector-borne disease in the United States and one of the more commonly overlooked causes of ongoing symptoms...

Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 27, 202217 min read
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Lupus
Maybe you've heard of it. Selena Gomez is a suffer of #Lupus and necessitated a kidney transplant because of nephritis. One of my...

Dr. Penny Lane
Apr 22, 20229 min read
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Histamine Intolerance
The first time I diagnosed #histamine intolerance was probably about ten years ago and admittedly, it was a blatant case. She had been...

Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 27, 20225 min read
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Eczema
Nearly a quarter of our little ones have eczema, an inflammatory skin condition. Just as asthma has, eczema and most all other forms of...

Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 24, 202216 min read
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Pediatric Asthma
More and more children are suffering with #asthma today than when their own parents were children. Children of the 1980s doubled their...

Dr. Penny Lane
Mar 24, 20225 min read
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