Tag: Infant Health

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Pediatrician Cui Yutao: Rotavirus Diarrhea Does Not Need Antibiotics

Editor’s Note: What is rotavirus There is a virus that mainly invades infants and young children. After being invaded by it, infants and young children develop mild upper respiratory tract symptoms in the early stage, which will soon cause vomiting and acute diarrhea, and often dehydration. Because the virus looks like a wheel under an electron microscope, it is called [rotavirus]. Rotavirus can invade people of any age, often affecting children under 6 years old, and children under 1 year old are high-risk groups. The younger the age, the more severe the symptoms. Symptoms are characterized by acute watery stool, so it is especially easy to cause dehydration. In the early stage of rotavirus diarrhea, liquid containing certain electrolytes, such Read More …

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Don’t Use Children as Toys: The Right Way to Play with Babies under 1 Year Old

Babies under one year old have new changes every day and are full of curiosity to explore the world, but babies at this time cannot express their wishes by themselves. How can we accompany our children well and let them spend this period healthily and happily? Is there something what cannot do? The most important thing is to play with the baby instead of playing with the baby as a toy. Some people may scoff at this: It is difficult for what to play with the baby? Not necessarily. Generally speaking, if adults don’t pay attention to the baby’s feelings and treat the baby repeatedly just because the baby’s response to some behaviors of adults is fun, then adults are Read More …

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Is it really better for children to be fatter? Mom and Dad, please pay attention

Obesity is a high risk factor for various cardiovascular diseases and endocrine diseases. With the development of society, simple obesity in children has become one of the diseases affecting children’s health. However, due to the aesthetic orientation of China’s social environment and the insufficient understanding of the harm of obesity by society and parents, most obese or overweight children have not received timely intervention. Parents think that children’s good appetite is a sign of health, Most of them worry that their children are too thin, But they don’t realize that the healthy children in their eyes are already in a state of disease. At present, the incidence rate of obesity among children in our country is close to the level Read More …

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Infants aged 4-6 months can only rely on vitamin D supplements.

Sources of vitamin D in human body: sunlight irradiates skin; Diet; Vitamin D fortification. Due to the shortage of vitamin D in breast milk, when the baby cannot add supplementary food within 4-6 months, it cannot receive enough sunlight to irradiate the skin and can only rely on vitamin D supplements. In order to prevent vitamin D deficiency rickets, in addition to receiving as much sunlight as possible, one vitamin D preparation acceptable to infants should also be selected. The article was reprinted by Clove Garden authorized by the author.

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Infants should be fed as needed.

Feeding infants is not regular feeding, but should be fed on demand (hunger needs). Don’t worry about hypoglycemia and other problems during sleep in healthy babies. In particular, babies should gradually develop the habit of sleeping for a long time at night. Newborn babies need irregular feeding. After about two weeks, a 2-3 hour cycle of feeding is gradually formed. During the sober period of the baby, the feeding interval will be short. Feeding intervals grow during sleep. It is advisable to feed 7 times a day. Author: Cui Yutao The article was reprinted by Clove Garden authorized by the author.

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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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Care carefully to keep the baby away from diaper rash.

Diaper rash, big trouble? Some netizens left a message saying that they had seen three or four hospitals and finally found a method to treat the baby’s diaper rash on my microblog. A friend of mine recently also shared with me her experience of fighting with her son’s diaper rash, saying that it was difficult to deal with. In order to keep the baby’s buttocks dry, she often had to take a hairdryer and blow it hard at the baby’s buttocks. Is diaper rash really so troublesome? Baby’s red buttocks are mostly stimulated by feces and urine. Every baby may get diaper rash in infancy, which is commonly known as “red buttocks”. As the name implies, diaper rash refers to Read More …

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Vaccines are the umbrella for baby’s health.

Five Frequently Asked Questions about Vaccination 1. Measles Vaccine and Egg Allergy In the case of vaccination, The most difficult thing for Chinese parents is that when the baby goes to the community to get measles vaccine, the community doctor must confirm that the baby is not allergic to the whole egg before giving the injection. Measles vaccine usually suggests that the vaccination age is 8 months, but from the perspective of feeding, it is too early for the 8-month-old baby to eat whole eggs, and it should be postponed to 1 year old before eating whole eggs, otherwise it is easy to be allergic. Strictly speaking, parents should not be so entangled with this matter. The components of measles Read More …