Tag: Pediatrics

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Baby’s deciduous tooth health care

The baby’s first tooth is a milestone event for many families. Teeth have the function of chewing food and assisting pronunciation, and also affect the development of maxillofacial region. The quality of teeth is closely related to the baby’s nutritional status and psychological development, and the health of deciduous teeth is also related to the development of permanent teeth in the future. In recent years, parents have also paid more and more attention to children’s deciduous tooth health care, but there are still many misunderstandings. Today, let’s talk about common problems in deciduous tooth health care. First, when the baby grows what teeth in what? Deciduous teeth do not begin to develop only after birth. In fact, when the baby Read More …

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The child suddenly grew up? Watch out for children’s precocious puberty

Precocious puberty of children is a medical problem as well as a social problem. In the movie “The Killer Is Not Too Cold”, little girl Mathilde has a classic line: [I am already mature enough, I just get old.] We can take this sentence as a footnote to children’s precocious puberty: precocious puberty means premature aging. Of course, it is inappropriate to give this example. Mathilde is only mentally precocious, not sexually precocious. I. Manifestations of Precocious Puberty in Children Medical definition of precocious puberty in children is: girls are 8 years old and boys are 9 years old when secondary sexual characteristics mature, such as reproductive organ development, pubic hair and axillary hair growth, breast enlargement, menstrual cramps, etc. Read More …

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Truth Nimesulide: A Second-Line Anti-inflammatory Analgesic Prohibited for Children Under 12 Years Old

[Sincerely appeal to friends with little babies, do not use nimesulide granules for antipyretic treatment of children’s fever. The trade name is Ruizhiqing. Since work, I have met five such patients, with Wright’s syndrome and four invalid rescue deaths! Another little angel left tonight, hoping to tell friends with babies that this medicine has been banned for children under 12 years old, and they should not go to private pharmacies and clinics to listen to poor doctors and give it to children. From ICU doctors of children’s hospital] In the past two days, some netizens have seen the above information in WeChat, and some netizens have asked me to verify the authenticity of this information. I will analyze it here. Read More …

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The list of wise choices issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics

The American Academy of Pediatrics has released two [wise choices] lists of 10 items, listing common unnecessary examinations and treatments in pediatrics. (1) Obvious viral infectious respiratory diseases (sinusitis, Pharyngitis, bronchitis) should not use antibacterial drugs. (2) Cough medicine and cold medicine should not be prescribed or recommended for respiratory diseases in children under 4 years old. (3) CT scan is not necessary for immediate evaluation of mild head trauma. According to the Clinical Observation/Pediatric Emergency Nursing Applied Research Network Standard (PECARN), To determine whether imaging examination is needed. (4) Neuroimaging is not necessary for simple thermal epilepsy (CT, MRI examination. (5) CT scans are not necessary in routine abdominal pain assessment. (6) Do not use large doses of dexamethasone Read More …

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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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How to Choose Children’s Antipyretic Drugs

Parents asked: At present, there are many antipyretic drugs for children, and adverse reactions are often mentioned. How should parents choose? Should we pay attention to some what in use? The pharmacist replied: First of all, rising body temperature is a natural defensive response of the human body. It can increase the synthesis of human body, enhance the activity of phagocytes, and sometimes the change of body temperature is also helpful for disease diagnosis and judgment after healing. Therefore, not all children must use drugs immediately as soon as they have a fever. In general, children with low fever (< 38.0 ℃) do not advocate the use of drugs to cool down, but should adopt physical cooling method. What are 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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The baby has toothache, so medication should be cautious.

The American Food and Drug Safety Association (FDA) mentioned in a recently released drug safety newsletter that The 2% lidocaine gel used for oral anesthesia should not be used to relieve toothache in infants due to the serious risks it may cause. The agency said: [Oral treatment of toothache with 2% lidocaine gel is not approved, and infants may cause serious harm or even death due to the use of this drug.] This year, FDA evaluated 22 related cases of oral 2% lidocaine gel used in infants to treat oral diseases (including toothache and stomatitis) or swallowing excessive 2% lidocaine gel by mistake, and reported serious side effects (including death) in the above cases. FDA warns: [Local analgesics and other Read More …

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These common sense of child-rearing, saving money and possibly saving lives,

Introduction: There is a lot of wrong knowledge about parenting. It is time to abandon the old and backward wrong ideas and believe in science and modern medicine. STEP 1 Don’t wear too many clothes Children should wear at most one more dress than adults. Overdressing is not conducive to children’s activities and may also lead to heat-covering syndrome. Avoiding overdressing can reduce the risk of sudden infant death. [1] Step 2 Breastfeed Breastfeeding is economical and convenient, is beneficial to child development, reduces illness and is also beneficial to the mother’s physical recovery. WHO recommends exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months after the birth of the baby, and continues breastfeeding until the age of 2 or more, while supplementing other 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 …