Cary, Fuquay-Varina and Apex Pediatrics

Cary, Fuquay-Varina, and Apex Pediatrics will be open fore business as usual starting Wednesday, February 3rd.

PLEASE be safe on the roads.

Check out these websites for some health and safety tips when winter weather strikes:

Winter health and safety.

Outdoor Activities

We are delighted to have a new nurse practitioner join our practice! Holly Healy, a nurse practitioner with several years of experience in general pediatrics and pediatric gastroenterology has brought her experience to our busy practice. Holly will most of her days between our Fuquay-Varina and Apex offices, but will help in our Cary office as well. She and her husband Brian have relocated to Wake County from Northern Virginia. In addition to general peds and GI, Holly speaks Spanish and has been lactation trained. Please join us in helping her feel welcome!

We at Cary Pediatrics are doing our best to assist our patients in receiving the "seasonal" flu vaccine as well as the new "H1N1" vaccine.

We continue to receive shipments of H1N1 influenza vaccine at all three offices, and can make flu visit appointments until our supply is depleted. We may continue to get shipments of vaccine from the state but cannot predict how much, or when it will be delivered. Call your office to see if they are currently making flu vaccine appointments. It is recommended that all children 9 years of age and younger get two doses of the H1N1 vaccine, separated by a month. Patients 10 and over need to only receive one dose.

At this point, we have passed through the second wave of H1N1 illness in our community, the second being more widespread than the first. Pandemic influenza specialists who accurately predicted the October wave of H1N1 flu believe that a third wave of H1N1 will occur this winter. This may occur at the same time as the seasonal flu peak.

The most likely seasonal virus strain that we will see this winter is resistant to the medication we use for high risk children who have H1N1 influenza. This will make treatment more complicated, and may lead to more conservative management of children in our practice.

Wake county has created a special website for the flu. It includes treatment approaches, the "truth" about the flu, and good specific information.

Wake.gov Influenza Site

An excellent NY Times article addressing this can be found here:

NY Time article on Tamiflu and H1N1

At Cary, Fuquay and Apex Pediatrics, we are doing our best to meet the needs of our patients and our community. We are following the recommendations made by the CDC and our local health departments. We are available Monday through Saturday to evaluate your child, discuss appropriate treatment, and help you care for them.

We have also been getting numerous questions about the novel H1N1 vaccine. Our providers are recommending this vaccine in addition to the routine seasonal influenza vaccine. The newer vaccine has been developed using the same vaccine technology that has produced many years worth of seasonal vaccine. It does not contain new or altered products to speed it toward production. Because of this, the safety profile should be the same as for the routine flu vaccine.

The expectation is that this vaccine will be best if there are two doses for children 9 and under and a single dose for all people 10 and over. This vaccine is available in all of our offices while supplies last for our patients. Please call for an appointment.

We have added a new page with information and links about caring for your adolescent.