Summer Safety, Including Benzocaine Issue, Highlighted During WFAN Radio Program
Now that the Memorial Day holiday has come and gone, it’s officially summer! But before you head out for some fun in the sun, check out this program from Radio 66 WFAN in New York. Host Bob Slater chats with integrative medicine expert and pediatrician Dr. Larry Rosen. Dr. Rosen provides listeners, especially parents, with useful summer safety information. He discusses the recent FDA warning regarding benzocaine use in children, and alternative products to use. 
He also mentions several safe, natural approaches, such as cost-effective homeopathic medicines, to relieve summer ailments. Calendula is a favorite of Dr. Rosen’s–he calls it an “all-purpose toolbox” for relieving sunburn, minor cuts and scrapes, dry skin and diaper rash. For more info and tips, listen to the interview here.
About Dr. Rosen: Dr. Rosen is a board-certified general pediatrician committed to family-centered, holistic child health care. He practices primary care at The Whole Child Center in Oradell, N.J. and consults at the Joseph M. Sanzari Children’s Hospital at Hackensack University Medical Center, serving as Medical Advisor to the Deirdre Imus Environmental Health Center. Dr. Rosen is a nationally recognized expert in Pediatric Integrative Medicine, and a founding member and Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Complementary and Integrative Medicine. He is a contributing editor and columnist for Kiwi Magazine, as well as a contributing author/editor for several books, including “Integrative Pediatrics,” “Green Baby,” and “Pediatric Clinics of North America: Complementary and Alternative Medicine.”
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