Tag: Fever

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How important is it to dress up your children well?

The United Nations Children’s Fund has done such an experiment. Let a little girl appear in the same public place twice in the image of exquisite dress and untidy dress respectively, In the end, we were treated differently by passers-by. We may know from the video that [people cannot judge by their appearance], but there is no denying that we all like beautiful things. Naturally, clean and beautiful babies are more likely to be cared for by others, thus making them more confident. It seems that it is really very important to cultivate children’s aesthetics, at least the external beauty of the baby’s own body. Although the baby is small, he also has a love of beauty. In fact, from Read More …

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Think the baby speaks late? This is the only thing you need to prepare to teach your children to speak.

Recently, clove mothers heard some young mothers say that their babies are almost two years old and cannot speak. They are very anxious for fear that their children will lose at the starting line. So how late is the child talking? In fact, although most children can speak 20 words by the age of 1, each child is unique and it is normal to speak at different times. It is not too big a problem to postpone the time as long as it is within half a year. If the child is over two years old and cannot speak at all, then consider taking the child to see a pediatrician. Many parents hope that children speak early, which is good Read More …

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The sky-high price of Cordyceps sinensis requires money and may kill you.

When it comes to Cordyceps sinensis, the two words that we are most likely to think of are expensive and supplementary. How expensive is Cordyceps sinensis? On the shopping website, you can see nearly 10g of high-end products with 6,000 yuan, which is more expensive than gold. How much does Cordyceps sinensis supplement? Turn on the mobile phone to search, and all the words that come out are [enhancing immunity and fighting cancer], which sounds very [nourishing]. However, all this is just a [Chinese] hoax. Is Cordyceps really worth that much money? In 1974, in Qinghai, the origin of Cordyceps sinensis, the price of Cordyceps sinensis was around 28 yuan/kg, while the gold price at that time was about 11 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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In those years, we used the wrong compound cold medicine for children.

If the baby is ill, it is very necessary to take him to the hospital for a definite diagnosis. But if the doctor’s diagnosis is [acute upper respiratory tract infection] (also known as viral cold) and tells you that there is no specific medicine at present and you are allowed to go home without prescribing medicine for the baby, do you think the doctor is a quack? Many people will have such a wrong understanding, so they immediately change hospitals and find another [good] doctor to prescribe a bunch of miscellaneous cold medicines. There is no lack of children’s cold medicines recommended in advertisements every day, such as good dolls, Hu Tong, Yucatan, Hui Fei Ning and Ai Chang, and 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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Antipyretic: Which side effect is small, oral or suppository?

After continuous popular science, netizens now know that there are two kinds of antipyretic drugs widely used in the world, namely [acetaminophen] and [ibuprofen] recommended by the World Health Organization. Moreover, acetaminophen is the first choice of antipyretic due to its long clinical use time and high safety. Because acetaminophen has two different dosage forms, oral and suppository, netizens often ask me such questions: [acetaminophen can have suppository for rectal administration, why should there be oral dosage forms? Shouldn’t suppositories have less side effects than oral administration, and wouldn’t they hurt the liver? ] With this question in mind, let’s compare the absorption and metabolism differences between oral administration and suppository. Absorption and Metabolism of Oral and Suppository The main Read More …

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Does the baby have a fever? Maybe it’s not a bad thing

Baby fever is an inevitable problem for every mother in the process of child-rearing. There is a folk saying [there is no child who grows up without fever], [the child has a fever and grows up once a time], and the simple saying contains two meanings: first, the child has a fever that is very common; Second, it is not necessarily a bad thing for a child to have a fever. This is quite reasonable, but having said that, as a mother, it is hard to avoid worrying about her child’s fever. Of course, some anxiety is also human nature, but in the face of fever, mothers should learn to deal with it calmly and give their babies more care Read More …

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Can eating ice cream also cause food poisoning? Watch out for these 4 microorganisms

Recently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that Listeria monocytogenes was detected in the ice cream products of Blue Bell Company in the United States, which has caused 8 people to seek medical treatment due to infection and 3 people to die. The ice cream also entered the Chinese market last year and was sold in Shanghai, Sichuan, Heilongjiang and other places. Listeria, perhaps many people are still unfamiliar with this name. However, according to a report in the 2010 China Journal of Food Hygiene, the detection rate of Listeria in food safety monitoring in 13 provinces in China is 3.7%, with raw meat products having the highest detection rate. Food poisoning caused by microbial infection is Read More …

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The summer epidemic [herpetic angina] should not be taken lightly.

As summer approaches, many children who come to the clinic due to fever are diagnosed as herpetic angina, and parents will ask with concern: Is it hand-foot-mouth disease? Is it serious? What if you don’t eat? ] Let’s answer the parents’ concerns one by one. Don’t worry, it’s not HFMD Herpetic angina and hand-foot-mouth disease have the following two main differences: Different Herpes Positions Herpetic angina only has herpes in the oral cavity, while children with hand-foot-mouth disease may have herpes in the oral cavity, perioral cavity, hands, feet, buttocks and even the whole body. Different severity Herpes angina rarely appears severe, while hand-foot-mouth disease has a certain proportion will turn into severe. A few children with hand-foot-mouth disease may Read More …