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Kids don't explain what hurts. They just cry, refuse medicine, run a fever at 11pm, and leave you googling things you probably shouldn't be googling at 11pm. Heidy Martinez has spent ten years on one side of the CVS pharmacy counter and just as long on the other side - as a mom of two who has lived every single one of those conversations. The parent who comes in overwhelmed, the child who won't take the medication, the moment you realize the kitchen spoon you've been using to measure liquid antibiotics is not - and has never been - an actual measuring tool. Heidy joins Dr. Jake Goodman to walk through the pediatric health questions that come up most at the pharmacy counter. Why a virus doesn't need an antibiotic - and what happens when you stop the antibiotic too early. How to actually manage a fever based on your child's behavior, not just the number on the thermometer. What to look for when a scrape stops being just a scrape. And why the children's medication aisle at CVS, as helpf...

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