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Getting sick is part of being a child, but it can be scary for parents. Some illnesses can seem mild, and suddenly take a terrifying turn; some symptoms can seem very serious and turn out to be nothing. Knowing when to call the doctor or take that trip to the emergency room isn’t always easy; here are seven signs that you should seek medical attention for your sick child.
Fever – A low-grade fever is a natural reaction to many illnesses, and isn’t necessarily cause for alarm. However, a high fever or one that persists for more than 48 hours is a definite sign that your child needs medical attention.
Vomiting – Vomiting is unpleasant, but par for the course with children. However, there are times when it should be taken seriously. Dark green bilious vomit is a sign of intestinal obstruction, and should be treated immediately. Vomiting accompanied by a severe headache is also a sign you should call the pediatrician; vomiting with abdominal pain can be an indicator of appendicitis, which is quite serious.
Coughing – Mild coughing in an otherwise-healthy child will normally go away on its own without intervention, but a cough that worsens after 3-5 days or isn’t improving within two weeks should be treated. Deep coughing accompanied by chest pain and wheezing or difficulty breathing should be considered urgent.
Dehydration – Diarrhea and vomiting resulting from a stomach virus can quickly lead to dehydration. Dry mouth, sunken eyes and the inability to produce tears are all signs of dehydration; if your child has these symptoms and can’t keep fluids down, you should contact your pediatrician.
Lethargy – In medical terms, a lethargic child is one that is difficult to wake up. An alert child who wakes normally when stimulated isn’t lethargic, even if their energy level is far below the normal threshold. Difficulty waking your child or severe disorientation is usually considered an emergency; call your pediatrician immediately.
Rashes – Rashes are common in children, and aren’t typically cause for concern. However, if your child has a rash and is running a fever, you should contact your pediatrician. A rash that doesn’t blanch under pressure or is purple is also a sign that you should call the doctor.
Weight Loss – Weight loss in children is almost never considered normal, and can be a sign of a chronic or serious illness. If your child has suffered a sudden weight loss, you should contact your pediatrician and describe any other symptoms they have in addition to losing weight.
In addition to these symptoms, you should also seek medical attention if your child is vomiting or coughing up blood, you suspect an allergic reaction or if symptoms of a chronic illness worsen. Above all, follow your instincts as a parent. You know what is and isn’t normal for your child; don’t be afraid to contact your pediatrician’s office because of symptoms that aren’t typically considered serious but are cause for concern to you.

Resource :- Livenanny.com

I’m totally agree with the article.. Child is very sensitive and you need bring her/his to doctor when they have any health problem. Never take for granted. Sometimes the simple disease such as fever can change her future life.

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What examination undergo by your baby
Your baby will undergo some research and investigation in a few hours of his life he lead off. The first is the Apgar score, given seminit after birth, then five minutes away afterwards. These exams are researching whether your baby has problems that require urgent medical support. Most babies are advisory, or just need to be considered for an instant time. If intervention is required, it only involves the administration of oxygen or air duct cleaning to help your child’s breathing.

Soon, your doctor will weight and measure your baby’s head wound. These measures will be incorporated later into the record books immunization. This will justify you follow his progress while he enlarged.

In some cases, ‘Guthrie’ exams or beak heel run before your baby is one week old. In this test, a little blood taken from your baby’s heel and tested for the enzyme deficiency (phenylketonuria) and deficiency of thyroid cyst and fibrosis. These problems are also recognized as the metabolism of Congenital Defects. Your baby may cry a little when the blood was taken but he will come back with proper bertenang. Therefore all these problems is rarely true for Asians, this exam is not given routinely to people of Malaysia (pediatric experts you will run this test if a one of parent is European descent).

Full examination of the newborn is run between four and 48 hours after birth. This gives your baby time to adjust to the outside world in addition to allowing medical attention right away if something is given a problem, which was rarely true.

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Some of parent don’t take care of their baby food. It is important to feed your baby with healthy meal. In the market, there’s many baby food that contains with chemical and not natural food. Organic baby food is a healthy and safe for your baby bodies. That’s why some of organic food has increased in their price because the importatnt to our babies.
Why need to feed baby with organic food? In this entry, I’ll give 3 main reson for you to choose organic baby food :-

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1. It is not just buying on the store. You also can make your own homemade organic baby food. All you need is just to make homemade baby food and include with organic fruits and vegetable. It will contain all vitamins for your babies.
2. There’s many option in flavors. Many product maker that make many flavors such as carrots, peas, sweet potatoes and many more fruit flavour. It will make easier for your babies to eat it.
3. Many baby food product contain with unhealthy sugar and other’s unhealthy ingredients. Using organic food it could improve child’s health for long term.

Eventhough there’s no guarantees that using organic food better than nonorganic food but it is good for the balanced diet and without conventional pesticides. So, why don’t you try organic baby food?
It is easy to find, there’s many organic baby food online. Just find in the net and you will find many product.

p/s :- Before buy baby organic food, get advice from expert. Sometimes, there’s a fake product claim as organic baby product.

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THREE years ago, the U.S. National Toxicology Program issued a report that the chemical known as bisphenol A (BPA) may cause hormone-related problems, including early puberty in children and cancer tumors.BPA Chemical substances commonly found in baby bottles. It become worse when a bottle of water used for drinking during pregnancy also contain this chemical. There are concerns over its exposure to BPA can affect the unborn child both in terms of neurological or behavioral. Babies also have the same risk if it was found true.

Currently, the Food Administration and the U.S. Drug Administration (FDA) has no plans to ban BPA in plastic. Likewise, Canada has taken the first step is to label hazardous chemicals.

However, despite the exposure of the BPA, the parents still have the option to select from a cup or a bottle of milk for the babies there.
There are BPA-free bottles of milk on the market and the glass milk bottles as an alternative.

The best way is to avoid the use of safety-related controversy by avoiding plastic containers from using it.

Not only are security guarantees and even your own child does not need to worry.

Through the study, the addition of BPA to the content of the milk bottles at a certain temperature affect the health of infants and children.As a precaution, parents are advised to be able to choose a bottle BPA-free milk, such as polypropylene (PP), polyethersulfone (PES), polyamides (PA). Milk bottles which contain adequate BPA is usually hard and transparent. Also, note the plastic identification code on the label under the bottle of milk. Milk bottles with BPA will be labeled with ‘* the 7′, ‘* the 7 and PC’ or ‘* the 7 and the other’

The effect of milk bottles containing BPA are long term, especially in infants hormones.

Identify the types of polycarbonate milk bottles

l It is hard and clear where it contains BPA.

l milk bottles can also be identified by identification code is commonly found in plastic baby bottles down.

l identification code is the number 7, number 7, and PC, the number 7 and the ‘other’.

l Meanwhile, baby bottles are BPA free are usually labeled with the word ‘PCB free’ or independent CPA.

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Period is 40 weeks full content. Births at 28 weeks is considered as very preterm (extreme prematurity). Birth of a baby at 36 and 37 weeks is considered a moderate preterm births (borderline prematurity). This is important to consider because it regards a baby’s ability to adapt itself to the environment outside the womb. The more premature the baby, the more difficult for him to adjust himself as functional systems and organs are not mature yet.
Babies born at thirty-six weeks having a better chance to adapt itself to new environments when compared to babies born on the twenty-eight weeks. This is not surprising because the system is like a baby on the respiratory system, liver function, physical growth and nervous system, uro-jenital and skin are all still lacking. From the birth of the second stage of eight weeks will bring some difficulties for the baby.

Births at the twenty-eight weeks is usually fatal in infants. But since 20 years ago, g, technology and knowledge about infant care is very premature infants has increased rapidly. In the past, most babies born at twenty-eight weeks off the normal. Now most of them can be saved with modern technology. There are even baby care centers in the world who have managed to save babies born even at twenty-three weeks. However, it should be reminded that the more premature the baby is born, the more difficult for him to adjust to new surroundings. Without special treatment, the risk of death would be higher. The higher perinatal services in an area, the high rate of infant mortality. Developing countries certainly be recorded perinatal mortality rate is higher when compared with countries that have been developed.

Causes of Premature Birth

The break in the lining amonion case with early (premature rupture of membranes) and uterine muscle contraction (uterine contraction) can lead to premature births. There are also women who frequently expressed in the second trimester fetus because the cervix is not strong (cervical incompetence). This can be treated with an operation to strengthen the cervix.

Pregnant women who experience high blood (pre-eclamptic toxaemia), or a placenta that is not appropriate place (placenta praevia) is always a premature baby.

Uri may be torn from the uterine wall (abruptio-placenta) cause bleeding. If it occurs too early the baby may be born prematurely.

Sometimes the baby itself has to be born early because of circumstances such as Rhesus-isoimmunisation ‘in which red blood cells of the embryo splits quickly due to his mother’s antibodies into the fetal blood circulation. Fetal life may be threatened if he was not born earlier. This condition is more common in western countries.

Characteristics of preterm infants
From the physical characteristics and nerve babies are born prematurely, a doctor can determine the baby’s gestational age. The body is very premature babies is very gentle and not much moving. The skin on her body looks shiny, not like babies that look dismatur dry, thin-shelled berkupas. Fold the folded-ear easily. For baby boys, two eggs often can not be detected in the scrotal sac.

Premature babies quickly chills and if steps are not taken to maintain body temperature, this will lead to death.

Because veins are still immature nerves again, premature babies sucking milk is always difficult and requires other ways such as through a feeding tube nasogastik. As well as baby dismatur, premature babies are more prone to deficiency of glucose in the blood is always menggelentar or get fit. This is serious because it can cause brain damage that leads to physical and mental disabilities in the future

Premature babies simple yellow (jaundice). This is caused by the chemical bilirubin which can not be removed from the heart of the system as soon as possible because the function of this system has not matured yet. Premature babies can not stand the yellow. Chemical bilirubin easily penetrate the restrictions, called “blood brain barrier ‘to stick to the parts of the brain called the basal ganglia. As a result of premature babies will have cerebral palsy and hearing loss that can lead to speech problems in the future (kernicterus).

Premature babies prone to respiratory congestion or ‘respiratory distress syndrome’. This situation stems from the lack of materials called ‘surfactant’ is usually formed by the baby’s lungs themselves until the age of 34 weeks gestation. If the ‘surfactant’ shortage because too premature birth, the baby will be disturbed by breathing because oxygen can not be absorbed into the blood through the lungs.

Bluish or ‘cycnosis’ if allowed to continue to damage the baby’s brain.

Premature babies prone to infection such as infants dismatur. Doctors and nurses who care need to be careful to detect the early signs of infection so that immediate treatment can be arranged.

Treatment for premature babies
Treatment of an infant is based on problems that are to a baby. As baby dismatur, premature babies also need a viable treatment preferably given in hospitals that have expertise and tools needed. This is because these two groups of low birth weight babies have a higher risk of death than babies who are born premature have a medium-heavy weights. Treatment centers, special baby in developed countries like Europe, the United States and Japan have been successful, to save premature babies born as early as the beginning of the twenty-three weeks or have heavy weights in 500 grams (1 pound). This can only be achieved by using modern technology and high quality care.

Premature babies are born outside the hospital when the hospital would be in cold conditions. Cold will aggravate the baby quickly and complicate further treatment for him. Premature babies are born in the hospital will be treated in an incubator that maintained body temperature.

Babies who have ‘Respiratory Distress Syndrome requires sufficient oxygen – the oxygen level in the blood must not be too high nor too low because both conditions are dangerous to the baby. Devices that record information such as heart beat, breathing rate, blood pressure and body temperature can be attached to the baby’s chest. Baby’s blood should be checked from time to time to determine the materials, such as elektrolik, glucose and oxygen are not on the level that could jeopardize his life.

If yellow is detected, phototherapy must be started early so that the brain damage is so miserable baby. Yellowish dangerous levels should be treated with blood exchange (exchange transfusion) to prevent a condition called kernicterus.

Many premature babies can be saved with optimal care in neo-natal period without any interruption in the veins nerves.

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UV radiation from the sun can damage your child’s eyes. Disclosure under the direct UV radiation can cause serious eye diseases including macular blindness and the leading cause of impairment to blindness.
The child is at risk of negative effects of UV radiation because most of them do not know to protect their eyes. As a result, the damage occurred in their eyes at a young age.
Here are some tips on care your child’s eyes: -

1. Use eye protection to block 100% UVA and UVB radiation.
2. Limit exposure to sunlight.
3. Wear a hat or wear a hat for protection.
4. Choose your glasses with a larger framework for broader coverage.

Hopefully this guide can help parents in ensuring children’s eyes are in good condition

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Dental care gums and teeth should start as soon as the baby grow.Parents should teach their children to take care of their teeth so their teeth healthy and beautiful as an adult. It is important to protect your child from damage and decay in milk teeth hurt. Read this guidelines

Babies below 24 months
1. Clean baby’s mouth with a clean cloth after and before bed.
2. Do not let your baby fall asleep with a bottle of milk in their mouth unless it is filled with plain water only.
3. Visit the dentist when the first tooth did not appear when your child reaches the age of one year.
4. Brush your teeth with a small brush and soft after meals and at bedtime.
5. Continue to clean other parts of the mouth with gauze or a soft cloth.
6. Discuss with your dentist or specialist about additional fluoride.

Age 2-6 years
1. Parents should continue to clean the mouth of the children and allow them to participate based on your interests and abilities.
2. Start teaching them to use dental floss at the close.
3. Consult your dentist for regular teeth cleaning.

Age 6-12 years
1. Start transferring the responsibility of brushing and dental floss to children with parental supervision. Age 8 years is the average age of the child is able to brush their own teeth, dental floss mankala do when they reach the age of 10 years.
2. Children should be brushing technique and toothbrush type recommended by their dentist.

Children of all ages
1. Change your toothbrush every 3-4 months.
2nd Brush your teeth twice a day after eating breakfast and before bedtime.

For further information please contact your nearest dentist.

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Nowaday, the children obesity is one of dangerous disease. According to Pediatrics studies, children can get obesity as early 3 years. In the study, it found that childhood obesity should be prevent earlier than currently thought, perhaps even before birth.
There are many risk factors for children to get obesity:-

1. Family factors. Mother that has diabetes or depression highly will affect their child.
2. Eating solid meal in early age. Some of parent teaches their children to eat that food before 1 years of age. It is not good for their stomach.
3. Poor sleep also gives effect on their body function.
4. Sometimes parent not do natural breast feeding. It is not good because natural milk will give best immune for your children to fight bacteria and prevent obesity
5. Watching television in their bedrooms also risks that make your child get obesity.
6. Fast food not good for young children. Too much sugar beverages can make they get obesity in an early young age.

The best way to reduce the risk is changing behaviors. Mothers must know the important to breast feeding rather than buy milk in the shopstore. Parents also need to change their children behavior and attitude to prevent their child to get obesity.
Source and Reference :- American Academy of Pediatrics Website
As a parent, we must take care about this. Children obesity will give many big disease that can’t cure if you not prevent in early age.

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In the children age, they usually need the nutrition to get better grow. Taking vitamins and minerals seems isn’t easy for children especially the nutrition contain on meal that they dislike.
Your children need some nutritional supplements contain iron in the early age. It is important to prevent disease such as anemia. Some of children need nutritional supplements such as calcium. Calcium is important for strong bones and teeth. The allergies children from milk must get supplements of calcium that found in many nutritional products. Your children need to take other nutritional supplements for fluoride. It is important to builds healthy teeth.
Baby who are breast-fed by healthy mothers receive enough vitamins but infants who are breast-fed by malnourished women may be deficient in vitamin D.
Children in age four till twelve also need the right balance of minerals, vitamins and other nutrients. This period they need strong tissues and cells that effect in their future life. In this phase, your children brain is functional is need balance of nutrient. The impact is on the child’s brain impaired function. The supplement nutrition is important to your children brain functions such as attention, memory and concentration.
Nutritional supplement is important but you must beware before buy it. Always ask from the expert and get the supplement from certificate pharmacy,

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Growing children need balanced diet to get better health. Nowadays, many of children eat the meal from fast food restaurant. Most of those meals from the fast food restaurant not offer minerals, vitamins and nutrients that need for their bodies. Their growing bodies will suffer if don’t get enough nutrition.

The inadequate nutrition and diet will make the children malnutrition. It will effect on their growing. This are some problem in malnutrition children :-

1. Most of malnutrition children will have problem in their weight gain. Parents must take some these actions.
2. Dry scaly skin is always happens to malnutrition kids.
3. Slowing linear growth
4. Malnutrition kids will have problems with organ function. There are many illness that occur because of malnutrition such as osteoporosis, bloated stomach, heart problem, etc.
5. The problem in malnutrition will effect on behavioral changes. It will cause stress and mental problem. Parent must take attention when it happens and give support to their children.

What parent must do?

1. Children need vitamins to the children body. It help digestion, immunity, cell division and growth. Buy some vitamin recommend by a doctor or nutritionist. Get it from certified pharmacy.
2. Don’t serve food that hard or crunchy because it will cause problem with chewing/ swallowing.Teach your children how to swallowing, regurgitating the re-swallowing food.
3. Serve them with low-calorie liquids or fruit juices. It will prevent your child from eating food that contains more calories.
4. Serve meal with balance diet. Vegetable, wheat, fruit is a must for your children meal.
5. Keep a record of your child meal. It is better if you give the record for your doctor or nutritionist. They will advice about the nutrition that your children needed.

It is important for children to have proper nutrition. Most of children with proper diet will become more confidence, have more energy and their alert is high. From a research, there are over 150 million children are malnourished, so keep on giving balanced diet for your children.

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