Tag: Child Care

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Formula for Calculating Baby Weight

I often see novice mothers asking if their baby’s weight is normal. Too fat or too thin, parents do not have a reference standard. So, for babies of all ages, what kind of weight is normal? You can refer to the following calculation formula to calculate by yourself: Babies within 6 months: weight (kg) = birth weight (kg) + age × 0.6; Babies aged 7 ~ 23 months: weight (kg) = birth weight (kg) + age × 0.5; Babies aged 2 ~ 7: weight (kg) = age × 2 +8. Generally, it is within the range of standard weight ± standard weight × 10%. Exceeding [standard weight + standard weight × 20%] is mild obesity; Exceeding [standard weight + standard Read More …

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What vaccines does the baby need?

In our country, vaccines are divided into two categories: planned vaccines and unplanned vaccines: Planned vaccines are the vaccines included in the national regulations for planned immunization. Infants must be vaccinated after birth. Vaccination within the plan is free of charge. Planned vaccines include BCG vaccine, hepatitis B vaccine, poliomyelitis vaccine, DPT triple vaccine, measles vaccine, Japanese encephalitis vaccine and meningococcal vaccine, totaling 7 kinds of vaccines. The recommended vaccination time is as follows: At birth: hepatitis B vaccine (first time), BCG vaccine 1 month old: hepatitis B vaccine (second time) 2 months old: polio vaccine (first time) 3 months old: polio vaccine (second time), DPT (first time) 4 months old: polio vaccine (third time), DPT (second time) Five months Read More …

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How does the child vomit?

Not long ago, I saw a Chinese medicine doctor on Weibo, This paper introduces the treatment methods of spitting milk in children, Said dip your finger in ice boron powder (editor’s note: Click on the drug to check the adverse reactions. Search for the drug on the client to see the safety warning information for careful use), and press the tongue root [Huoding]. Regardless of whether the drug is poisonous or not, it is not hygienic. Healthy children may cause vomiting and aspiration if they stimulate their throats in this way. Such misleading makes people feel strange. Vomiting is actually a very common symptom. From birth to adulthood, almost every child will experience vomiting. When vomiting, the child looks very Read More …

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What if the child has a fever? These methods of reducing fever are probably wrong!

Give the child a bath and apply ice bags to his head when he has a fever. This is effective and has no side effects. It is really impossible to take antipyretics again. Do you think so? Congratulations, it’s all wrong. At present, no authoritative professional organization regards these methods as the first choice for fever reduction. Why? What kind of children need to reduce fever? In the latest guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics on fever reduction [1], it is repeatedly stressed that unless it is extremely high fever, fever will not cause harm to children, on the contrary, it is beneficial. Fever with definite causes, such as serious bacterial infection, can naturally be treated for anti-infection according Read More …

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The Easy Mistake of Giving Children Medicine

Not long ago, I read a report on drug safety for children published by the Global Organization for Child Safety, June 2014. Some of the data in the report are amazing. 1. 86.4% of the children were poisoned at home. 2. Among the causes of poisoning among children, the proportion of drug poisoning has increased year by year, from 53% in 2012 to 64% in 2013. 3. In 2013, Beijing Children’s Hospital collected 369 cases of children taking drugs by mistake. 4. Among the causes of drug poisoning in children, there are mainly children taking it by mistake, adults taking it by mistake, and adults taking excessive doses. The following figure: 5. 69% of parents usually put the medicine where Read More …

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Antibiotics Available for Treating Baby Otitis Media

The baby is crying and scratching his ears. He may have otitis media. Acute otitis media in infants is a common infectious disease. The incidence rate is second only to cold clinically, and it is also the most common complication after cold. Statistics from the United States show that acute otitis media is the disease that American pediatricians prescribe the most antibiotics. Many mothers may have such doubts, the middle ear is hidden in the ear, how did the germs get in? The answer is simple: The nasopharynx and the ear are connected through the eustachian tube, The eustachian tube of infants is especially short, It is also relatively wide and flat. The nozzle is usually open, And just communicates Read More …

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Drugs are not the first choice to relieve constipation in babies.

Drug dependence hurts more than disease. One day, a mother who bought medicine came to the pharmacy window. She wants to buy 30 kesselos for her two-year-old baby. I asked her why she bought so many, She said that her daughter would not defecate without Kaiseru, You need to use a dose of Kaiselu every day, It has been in use for more than a month, I plan to continue using it. Now the little girl will take the initiative to ask her mother to use a Kaisailu every night before going to bed, otherwise she will be agitated and difficult to sleep. I asked her if she had taken her baby to see a doctor and whether she had Read More …

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Stay away from three types of drugs to give your baby the best protection.

During early pregnancy, 99% of the drugs apply to the “all or nothing” theory I mentioned earlier. It may not cause harm to the fetus, However, There are indeed several special drugs that do not apply to this theory. These drugs include ribavirin and isotretinoin (formerly known as: Isoretinoic acid) and vaccines against measles, rubella and mumps. Due to the long clearance half-life of these special drugs in the human body, It takes a long time, sometimes even several months, for the body to completely expel the drugs from the body. At the same time, these drugs are clearly teratogenic, so not only pregnant mothers but also pregnant women must not contact them. Otherwise, drug residues in the body will Read More …

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Nursing and treatment of eczema is a protracted war.

Does eczema have medicine that can cut off roots? Is hormone-containing ointment really useless? Is breast milk the main cause of eczema? People ask me such questions every day on Weibo. Baby eczema has troubled millions of parents in Qian Qian. I did my best to answer countless parents’ questions about eczema. And will reply to the question and answer summary growth article, through the parents more than 40,000 times of forwarding spread to more suffering from baby eczema novice parents, has played a very good popular science effect. Now I will eczema nursing and medication knowledge to everyone to popularize, hoping to help more parents. There is no medicine to cure eczema. Eczema is high in preschool children under Read More …

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Why do pediatricians not recommend calcium supplement for children?

Some parents always ask me on Weibo, is there any difference between vitamin A + D and vitamin D supplementation for babies in what? How long will vitamin D take? In addition to vitamin D, do you need calcium? How big is the baby’s fish oil and calcium supplement? When the baby is two or three years old, many mothers have not made up for it. Why? Foreign professional pediatricians usually do not recommend infants to supplement extra calcium. To answer the above questions, Let’s explain three things first: First, domestic pediatricians recommend that babies regularly supplement not [fish oil] but [cod liver oil], [Fish oil] refers to supplements such as DHA, It is not recommended as a conventional supplement. Read More …