Tag: Pediatrics

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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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Taking Children to See a Doctor in Japan

Editor’s Note: I believe many readers have had the experience of taking their children to see a doctor. Do you have endless complaints about the current medical system? If you like to seek novelty, please follow the author of this article to see the experience of seeing a doctor under the foreign medical system. After reading it, you think of what? When I immigrated to Japan a few years ago, my daughter was just over 2 years old, weak and sick, so I had the most experience of Japan’s health care system, and I still took my children to see a doctor. Because I have been a doctor in China, there are many interesting places to look at Japan’s children’s Read More …

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Pillow baldness is not a disease, but calcium supplement for all is a disease.

Many parents may notice that within a few months of the child’s birth, the back of the head loses all its hair in a circle, which is very bare and ugly. When the enthusiastic people in the community see it, they also say that your child lacks calcium. They need to supplement calcium and go to see a doctor. In fact, the statement that occipital baldness is due to calcium deficiency does come from doctors, but doctors do not intend to deceive parents, but many doctors also believe that occipital baldness is a manifestation of calcium deficiency and rickets, because when we were studying in textbooks, occipital baldness was regarded as a symptom of rickets. Therefore, when you go to 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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Right half lying position can effectively reduce baby’s milk overflow,

Infant milk overflow is a common phenomenon, because the lower end of the esophagus and the cardiac sphincter located at the opening of the stomach are weak in strength. When the abdominal pressure increases (such as crying, lying prone, and exerting hard force), the stomach is compressed, so that the food entering the stomach returns to the oral cavity through the esophagus without pain. As long as the child is placed on the right side and semi-lying position after eating, milk overflow can be effectively reduced. In fact, milk overflow is not a serious problem. Probiotics and other microecological preparations have limited effect here. Author: Cui Yutao The article was reprinted by Clove Garden authorized by the author.

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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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Mother can continue breast-feeding for colds.

Baoma asked: My baby has been breast-feeding for almost two months. Now she has a viral cold and a body temperature of about 37.6. She wipes herself with alcohol every night for two consecutive days. Can she still nurse now? The baby also has nasal congestion and cannot sleep well. Dr. Cui answered: My mother’s body temperature is 37.6 degrees after catching a cold, which is a low fever. She does not need alcohol to wipe her body, takes more rest, and takes appropriate cold medicines to relieve symptoms, such as acetaminophen or ibuprofen. For infants, continue breast-feeding, do not kiss children, and avoid direct respiratory tract infection. If the baby also has nasal congestion and other symptoms, saline nasal Read More …

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Repellent Mosquitoes and Return Babies to Peace and Health

If eczema is a skin problem that parents cannot predict in advance and have to accept, then parents can still do something to prevent their babies from being bitten by mosquitoes. Once a netizen exclaimed on Weibo: “Mosquito-repellent toilet water contains pesticide DEET, which is the pesticide approval number. I spray toilet water every day, which is pesticide spraying on my body!” ] At that time, netizens rushed to forward it, causing public panic. Especially parents with babies are even more panicked: can this pesticide-containing mosquito repellent be used by babies? Is it safe? In order to solve many questions in parents’ hearts, this section I will talk about mosquito repellent products suitable for babies and nursing problems after mosquito 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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Antipyretic and anti-inflammatory drugs are most commonly used in the treatment of infantile rash and Kawasaki disease.

It is difficult to predict children’s acute rash, and nursing fever is the key. Infant rash is a common disease in children. Most babies, Before the age of 1, The first fever was caused by this disease. In fact, this is also a viral infection. The reason why children’s rash is discussed after fever is that, Is because it usually manifests the symptom is high fever. This kind of disease even if you take the baby to the hospital, many times the doctor also can’t clearly give the diagnosis, can only make the diagnosis after the disease. Such as the baby’s hot relief rash, is burned for 3 ~ 4 days, the rash came out, the doctor according to these Read More …