Children’s Health
General Care of The Sick Child: Care The Child Needs
What care the child needs?
A sick child will require a lot of company, be clothed at all times, care, love and dedication of its parents. There is nothing more terrible than seeing a sick child and only to misfortune.
Kids know exactly what difference can search their parents and so the father, as well as love, the child will seek safety, but the mother also seek pampering, primary care, maternal touch and sense. Sick children also know that their condition of patients gives some advantages compared to other children (not go to school, to ask for special quirks such as toys, trinkets, gifts, etc.). And try to take advantage of this. Parents should try to be balanced in this matter. Other children, however, will draw “good game” if the Father, full of pity, give in to all requests for the crafty ones. Read the rest of this entry »
General Care of The Sick Child: Coping with Serious Illness
Should we tell the child who is sick?
It is important to remember that parents and doctors should, as a function of age, explain to your child about your condition in terms you can easily understand and assimilate.
Sometimes parents have to go through the bad time that the doctor informs them that their child has a serious disease. Although this is one of the worst and most agonizing experiences you can spend a few parents, the doctor will tell you the truth with his best tact and sensitivity. In these circumstances and depending on multiple factors can be observed large variations in responses to tragic news, but all of them surely will be followed by a great suffering for the parents. Read the rest of this entry »
General Care of The Sick Child
A disease can be a very unpleasant and traumatic for a child and their parents. Believe it or not, children have feelings and reactions and develop their own ideas to these problems, so you should have great care to respect its integrity, intimacy and even shame.
Visit Doctor
When a child is ill would be interesting for parents to “prepare” your child to visit the health center or hospital, explaining in simple and appropriate to their age what will happen: that, as is mailto should visit a doctor and/or nurse to try to help you get well.
Currently the vast majority of sick children are treated as outpatients and only a small percentage (seriously ill) should be admitted to hospital for diagnosis, treatment and recovery.
In no case will convince the child appropriate with falsehoods and lies to go to the doctor with their parents. The lack of sincerity is something the child can immediately recognize and misleading to assume a breach of trust that ultimately only serves to zoom out and lose their trust in us. Read the rest of this entry »
Bedtime Routine for Children
What is a bedtime routine?
It is important to a period of rest before going to bed, always keeping the same bed time. The routine before bedtime is doing the same things in the same order at the same time each day before going to bed and sleep.
An example routine:
- Allow the child to calm down by playing a quiet game together
- Allow to choose which pajamas or nightgown be
- Listen to soothing music
- Read or tell a story
- Put his blanket, teddy bear or anything else that makes him feel safe.
- For both the child and the rest of the family, a routine of 15 or 30 minutes is best. Read the rest of this entry »
How Long Does A Child Sleeping?
How long do you need to sleep a baby three months?
A three month old baby usually sleeps between 13 and 15 hours a day. Will be approximately five days and the rest at night. The baby may wake up once or twice every night.
If parents have to feed or change the baby at night, should do so quickly and quietly, with little light as possible, without talking or playing with him at the time, preventing the child may be excited to go back to sleep .
So when the baby wakes up, try to go back to sleep. If you removed the duvet cover it again and pat baby’s back gently, just to know that they are there. This may be enough for the child back to sleep, allow a few minutes before doing anything else.
Parents should teach the child that nothing happens exciting night and talk and play only happens during the day. Babies do not care if they sleep at night and awake during the day or vice versa. Parents should teach what is best. Read the rest of this entry »
How Much Sleep Children Need?
How important is sleep?
Sleep is very important in our lives. When we sleep our body can rest and renew energy. It is quite natural to talk about how we slept and whether our children have slept and how much.
Sleep is also important dreams. When we dream, we process all the events of daily life. Have a good night’s sleep thus affects our psychological wellbeing.
Sleeping well is often the result of having good sleeping habits. The teaching of these habits to children is the responsibility of their parents. Keep in mind that sleep is the daily activity to which the child spends more hours. Read the rest of this entry »
How to Choose Safe Toys for A Baby?
How to choose safe toys for a baby?
Small toys are dangerous. Babies are very curious, put everything into his mouth to try something and if swallowed can cause choking.
Make sure the teddy bears and dolls to play with your child does not have removable parts that your baby can swallow.
When your baby receives gifts, check whether you have label recommending that the age at which it is addressed. By law, the manufacturer must warn the corresponding label if the toy is safe or not for children under 3 years.
The buttons, coins, stones and other small objects are equally dangerous for young children and should be avoided at all costs.
Some music boxes and toys can emit a noise so high that they pose a danger to the baby’s ear. Read the rest of this entry »
Infants: How to Make Your Home Safer
What should you do to keep your baby safe?
Domestic accidents are a very common cause of injury and even death in young children. Many of these accidents could be prevented by making the house and garden more secure. Moreover, it is also important to choose clothes, appliances, and appropriate toys, and care not to cause any harm to your child.
Make sure your home also means being alert all the time what your child is doing. Monitoring is therefore an important issue in the care of his son, trying to keep out of reach items and products that can be dangerous for him. Special attention should be windows, balconies and terraces, stairs, electrical outlets, stove and oven, cleaning products and medications.
If, despite all the security measures you implement in your home, an accident occurs, it is important to know how to act. Read the rest of this entry »
Healthy Feet for better development
The lower extremities, supports the body: the feet are usually ignored in health issues, and is believed to cause no problems, but neglecting them can have negative consequences.
There ailments detectable after 2 years of age, which can be corrected so that children have a better development.
“The review begins with orthopedic birth, the pediatrician can diagnose problems immediately, many orthopedic problems that need to be detected at birth, because if left to go have serious consequences for the patient’s life, from a dephasing of smaller hip or disability that is tremendous, “says orthopedic Máximo Gómez Acevedo, representative of the Mexican Association of Orthopedics and Traumatology of the West Zone.
“The five most serious problems that must be detected at birth a baby are the dysplasia of the hip, foot deformities, such as lack of union between bones, spinal deformities, hip dysplasia is the most difficult to detect and is the cause more problems over time.
When the toddler’s parents should be on the lookout for how it moves and the position of the feet.
“Most children become a normal gait as the van practicing, in the first year of walking is when you tune all the details of the march, the process is a process of neurological maturation, the child will control their bodies head to toe and the latter dominates, as are the feet, “says the specialist.
At birth, doctors assume all human beings have flat feet and the use and encouragement of loading and running the arc is formed.
“If there is an alteration in the way at that age is necessary to start treating it, but if undetected thick evident before, like the legs Charrita, one must see the doctor to see what treatment should be to take”
How best to brush the teeth of children
To enjoy a proper dental hygiene in both smaller as adults, many experts recommend dental health in children clean their teeth at least 3 times a day.
The best practice is still doing so every time we eat, and in this sense we must educate the child so that, when something bigger, you do on your own, adopting a style of much healthier dental health.
But how best to brush your teeth? How can brush your teeth to prevent these are bite
Better to brush your teeth, you must follow these steps: Read the rest of this entry »