Emerald Coast Pediatrics - Dr. Kenawy

09/01/2025

✨REMINDER✨

As a reminder, our offices will be closed on Monday, in observance of Labor Day! This DOES include after care!

We hope everyone has a safe and fun Labor Day! ❤️🤍💙

08/28/2025

As a reminder, our offices will be closed on Monday, in observance of Labor Day! This DOES include after care!

We hope everyone has a safe and fun Labor Day! ❤️🤍💙

08/22/2025

🌈 Today is National Rainbow Baby Day 🌈

A rainbow baby is a child born after the loss of a pregnancy, stillbirth, or infant loss; bringing hope after heartbreak, much like a rainbow follows a storm.

We honor the strength of families who have walked this journey, remember the little ones gone too soon, and celebrate the joy that rainbow babies bring. 💕🫶

08/13/2025

When you find your long-lost twin….and they’re a work of art! 🤭 We had an unexpected visitor in the office! We think he’s pretty happy with the decor. 🦎

08/12/2025

☢️ It’s going around… and little hands are sharing it fast. 🦠🌡

Hand, Foot & Mouth Disease is making the rounds in our community. It spreads quickly, especially among little ones, so hand-washing is your best defense! Swipe through to learn the signs, how it spreads, and what you can do to help keep your family healthy!

08/11/2025

🤩 BRAG POST 🤩
Let's see those First Day of School photos!!!

Wishing all of the students, teachers, and families a safe and successful first day back to school! 📚 📝✏️

Please remember that school buses are back on the roads and little ones may be crossing streets! 🚌🚌🚌

🚸Slow down, stay alert, and help keep our kids safe!🚸

08/05/2025

🥛 Thinking about trying raw (unpasteurized) milk? Here’s what you should know!

Raw milk might sound “natural,” but it can carry harmful bacteria like E. coli, Salmonella, and Campylobacter. Pasteurization kills those germs without changing the taste or nutrition.

Recently in Florida, 21 people (including 6 kids under the age of 10) got sick after drinking raw milk from the same farm. Some ended up in the hospital with serious complications.

We all want to make healthy choices—just make sure they’re safe, too. When in doubt, pasteurized is the way to go. ✅

07/24/2025

🧺 New Mom Survival Kit: built just for her, not the baby.
We’ve got the cozy robe, the snacks, the dry shampoo... but we want to hear from YOU.

💬 Moms, what’s one thing you’d add to a new mom self-care kit that truly saved your sanity?

👇 Drop your must-haves in the comments! 👇

07/22/2025

07/15/2025

As pediatricians, our goal is to provide education to caregivers to ensure your children are safe and healthy. Please follow along as we continue our series about vaccine preventable diseases.

Illness: Haemophilus Influenzae Type B (Hib)

📍 Type of infection: Bacterial

📍 Spread: Close contact with infected person. This bacteria is commonly found lining the surface of the nose of back of the throat.

📍 Symptoms: Stiff neck, headache, fever, breathing difficulty, drowsiness, coma. Disease can progress to coma or death quickly.

📍 Risks: Prior to the Hib vaccine, Hib was by far the most common cause of meningitis in children (infecting around 20,000 children every year in the US). Risks of infection include meningitis, sepsis (bloodstream infection), epiglottis (swelling of airway), pneumonia, and cellulitis (skin infection, most commonly of the side of the cheek), death. Some children recover from disease but can be left permanently paralyzed, deaf, blind or mentally impaired.

📍 Treatment: Rapid initiation of antibiotics such as Ceftriaxone. Unfortunately there are increasing rates of antibiotic resistant strains.

📍 Prevention: Hib vaccine

For more information visit: https://shorturl.at/fvNIB

07/14/2025

🍼 What was easier for you as a parent?
🅰️ Potty training
🅱️ Sleep training

💗 There’s no one-size-fits-all in parenting. Share what worked for your little! One mama's tip is another mama's lifeline. 🫶