Back on their feet: looking after your kids when they are sick
Posted on December 2, 2011
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Parenting has its high points and its low points. One of the best things about parenting is watching your children grow and change each day. One of the most difficult things about parenting is dealing with sick kids. What do you do to help make your kids more comfortable when they are sick?
Depending upon the age of your child, your plan of action may be different. For example, if your young child has teething symptoms, you would most likely give her a teething ring to chew on. Teething symptoms can include irritability, sleeping problems, ear pain, and a runny nose. Teething can last a long time and can cause quite a bit of problems for parents of young children.
When children get older, you will not have to deal with teething problems, but you most certainly will be dealing with other health problems. Your teen will most likely get colds, stomach aches, and other types of viruses. One of the best ways to deal with illnesses is to make sure that your child gets plenty of rest and drinks fluids. By getting rest during an illness, your child’s body will quickly heal and he’ll be back to himself in no time.
Depending upon the illness, you may need to take your child to the doctor for medicine. While teething pain very rarely requires a doctor’s visit, your child may develop an ear infection or other medical problem during teething. If your chid starts to run a fever, it is a wise idea to make an appointment at the doctor to see what is going on.
If your child’s doctor would prescribe medication for your child, it is important to follow the directions as specified. If you stop the medicine before it has been finished, your child may get sick again.
Answers About Eye Drops For Newborns
Posted on October 10, 2011
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Shortly after the baby is born, the nurse is likely to take your baby to a warming table where cleaning your baby a little more, weigh and measure him and take him back to you.When he returned, although it will probably be noticed that his eyes look wet or greasy.This is the result of what is given eye drops. Sometimes it’s more like a cream that is rubbed on the eye nurse. What is rarely discussed, and most people do not even know why your child is given eye drops at birth.
Eye drops at birth are given for the primary purpose is to help prevent any possible infection to your baby’s eyes from his journey down the birth canal during delivery. Eye infections used to be a major cause of blindness in children, often because of the same bacterium that causes gonorrhea or chlamydia in women. When a woman is infected with this bacterium (20 percent of women with gonorrhea and 70 percent of women with chlamydia have no symptoms identifiable), which are present in your vagina. As a baby in the birth canal, he / she can pick up bacteria from the mother’s vaginal secretions or liquids.
The eye drop is just a precaution. This practice is accepted and made much of the world, and is even a law in many states. The most common antibiotic given today is erythromycin, however, some places still administer silver nitrate which is the first antibiotic to be launched late 1800. Silver nitrate, however, was found to irritate the baby’s eyes and cause great discomfort. You can talk to your doctor about which medication to administer. The hospital should have both on hand. Just indicate your preference.
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Early pregnancy
Posted on October 6, 2011
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Early pregnancy, the menstrual cycle in healthy women of reproductive age, after the expiration of the period of more than 10 days, pregnancy should be suspected. Early pregnancy in the development of a fertilized egg to establish itself, the formation of the placenta of estrogen, progesterone, human chorionic gonadotropin for the success of the maintenance of pregnancy, the mother of these endocrine changes producing a series of reactions.
The first symptoms of pregnancy
The first symptoms of pregnancy – early pregnancy and menopause are the main symptoms. Normal menstruation is normal, after menopause, more than 10 days and has transcended the trend should not think of pregnancy.
The first symptoms of pregnancy – early pregnancy in response to stop after six weeks, no dizziness, fatigue, lethargy, loss of appetite, a partial eclipse, as promoted by the consumption of acidic foods, fat and tired, and more rarely, degree of nausea, vomiting, vomiting and morning.
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