Northern Oklahoma Regional Pediatric Clinic

08/05/2025

The new school year is just around the corner, and so is flu season. Before your kids head back to the classroom, make sure the flu vaccine is at the top of your back-to-school checklist.

The flu vaccine is the best defense to keep your child healthy, safe, and learning all year long. The AAP recommends annual childhood flu vaccination starting at 6 months of age. Talk with your pediatrician or visit our website for more information.
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08/05/2025

08/04/2025

08/03/2025

🚗☀️ “I’d never forget my child in the car!” — famous last words of someone who doesn’t understand how human brains actually work.

Here’s the truth: science has proven that this can happen to anyone—yes, even you with your color-coded calendar and your mom-of-the-year mug. It’s called prospective memory failure, and it doesn’t care how much you love your kid or how “on top of it” you usually are.

Thinking it can’t happen to you? That mindset actually puts you at higher risk. No one’s brain is magically wired to be immune—mine, yours, your neighbor’s, nobody’s.

I’ll die on this hill. 🔥

Come for me if you want, but bring receipts—because I’ve got science waiting in the comments. 📚👇

08/01/2025

When measles virus infects our bodies it infect “memory cells” of the immune system which are responsible for identifying pathogens you have been exposed to previously. These memory cells are killed by the virus, essentially deleting the immunologic memory to those pathogens and leaving us susceptible to them once again.

Studies have shown that children who have been infected with measles show higher rates of other infections after measles as compared with children who were not infected in high-income settings.

Measles vaccination has been shown to not only reduce deaths associated with measles infection but also from other infections thanks to protection of immunologic memory.

Read more on Substack: https://ow.ly/hrW850WyyP5

Learn more on YouTube: https://ow.ly/jUsF50WyyP8

Original papers: PMID31672891, PMID31672862
Papers showing effects of immune amnesia: PMID25954009, PMID30413497, PMID35813375, PMID35767276, PMID34965183

07/29/2025

07/20/2025

Alpha-gal syndrome affects an estimated 500,000 individuals in the U.S. but remains significantly underrecognized and underdiagnosed.

Learn about the cardiovascular implications of Alpha-Gal Syndrome, a tick-borne allergic condition in : https://bit.ly/4nYNi3Z

07/18/2025

07/16/2025