Child Care: How to Give Syrups, Drops and Tablets to Children?

Syrups: Children are fussy about taking medicines. It is a common problem and causes problems to the parents and to the treating doctor. In a not so uncommon scenario, the parents have to catch hold of the child forcefully, the child thrashing, resisting to his fullest extent. Parents have to catch hold of his arms, then his legs; one of them have to hold his face so that there is no movement of the neck and open the mouth of the child somehow. Then the spoon of the medicine is forcibly put in the child’s mouth.

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Child Care: How to Treat Dental Caries in Children?

The most prevalent of all forms of disease are those of infancy and early childhood. The chief cause of a very large number of these diseases lies in faulty feeding habits of modern age. Unless this is realised by parents, there can be little hope of rescue for their children from the various ailments suffered by them.

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Child Care: Wrong Feeding is the Main Causes of Diseases in Children

If your child is advised admission to a hospital, parents are full of anxiety. There is a lot of bother in hospital admissions for a family. The normal family life is disrupted with the mother having to stay in the hospital with the child and the father having to be constantly on the run going here and there to fetch medicines, food, clothes etc. Uppermost anxiety in the parents’ mind is about the child’s condition. Sometimes the child is put on an intravenous line and the child may take time to become accustomed to it.

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Child Care: How to Treat Vomiting in Children?

Vomiting also refers to the forceful oral expulsion of gastric contents. The contraction of the muscles of the abdomen and diaphragm raises the pressure within the abdomen and forces out the contents of the stomach. Generally, the act of vomiting is preceeded by an unpleasant feeling of nausea with excess watering of the mouth.

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Child Care: How to Treat Diarrhea in Children?

Dental caries or tooth decay is the most important cause of tooth loss. It is characterised by a bacteria-induced progressive destruction of the mineral and organic components of the enamel and dentine, the two outer layers of the tooth. It is considered to be one of the most common diseases of modern age caused, in large measure, by eating devitalised foods of today, which are too soft and too sweet.

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Child Care: How to Treat Dysentry in Children?

Dysentery is a serious condition affecting the large intestine. It is characterised by inflammation and ulceration of the bowel, a colic pain in the region of the abdomen and passing of liquid or semi-formed stools with mucus and blood. Chidden are more prone to this disease than adults.

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Child Care: How to Treat Infantile Colic?

Colic is a painful stomach condition. Babies between the age of three and six months usually suffer from this condition. It is characterised by pain in the abdomen as a result of complete or partial blockage of one of the hollow tubes – intestines, ureters and bile ducts. The muscles lining the tube contract in order to expel the contents but cannot, and the resulting tension produces the pain. Typically, colic occurs between the six O’clock and ten O’clock evening feeds.

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Child Care: How to Treat Intestinal Worms in Children?

The worms and other intestinal parasites which infest human beings are more common in tropical and subtropical areas. Most of these worms and parasites gain entry into the body either through the mouth or through the skin of the feet. Children are more prone to infection from these worms than adults.

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