When a child is hurt, physically or emotionally, the child seeks solace from the parents and they also comfort him. Since this is a normal phenomenon and comes to both the child and the parents naturally, it is correct. However, there are some parents who want their child to grow up being brave and so may resist their natural impulse to comfort the child.
Month: February 2017
Child Care: How to Handle Children When They Have to Be Hospitalized?
If your child is advised admission to a hospital, parents are full of anxiety. There is a lot of bother in hospital admissions for a family. The normal family life is disrupted with the mother having to stay in the hospital with the child and the father having to be constantly on the run going here and there to fetch medicines, food, clothes etc. Uppermost anxiety in the parents’ mind is about the child’s condition. Sometimes the child is put on an intravenous line and the child may take time to become accustomed to it.
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Child Care: How to Give Capsules, Injections and Multiple Medicines to Children?
Capsules: While primarily meant for adults, there are a few situations where they have to be given to a child for want of a better or a suitable alternative. The same method as above should be followed. The capsule should be opened, the powder taken out on a piece of paper and then put in the viscous gel before giving it to the child.
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Child Care: How to Give Syrups, Drops and Tablets to Children?
Syrups: Children are fussy about taking medicines. It is a common problem and causes problems to the parents and to the treating doctor. In a not so uncommon scenario, the parents have to catch hold of the child forcefully, the child thrashing, resisting to his fullest extent. Parents have to catch hold of his arms, then his legs; one of them have to hold his face so that there is no movement of the neck and open the mouth of the child somehow. Then the spoon of the medicine is forcibly put in the child’s mouth.
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Child Care: How to Treat Dental Caries in Children?
The most prevalent of all forms of disease are those of infancy and early childhood. The chief cause of a very large number of these diseases lies in faulty feeding habits of modern age. Unless this is realised by parents, there can be little hope of rescue for their children from the various ailments suffered by them.
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Child Care: Wrong Feeding is the Main Causes of Diseases in Children
If your child is advised admission to a hospital, parents are full of anxiety. There is a lot of bother in hospital admissions for a family. The normal family life is disrupted with the mother having to stay in the hospital with the child and the father having to be constantly on the run going here and there to fetch medicines, food, clothes etc. Uppermost anxiety in the parents’ mind is about the child’s condition. Sometimes the child is put on an intravenous line and the child may take time to become accustomed to it.
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Child Care: How to Treat Vomiting in Children?
Vomiting also refers to the forceful oral expulsion of gastric contents. The contraction of the muscles of the abdomen and diaphragm raises the pressure within the abdomen and forces out the contents of the stomach. Generally, the act of vomiting is preceeded by an unpleasant feeling of nausea with excess watering of the mouth.
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Child Care: How to Treat Indigestion in Children?
Indigestion is a common ailment in children today and is caused by direct errors. It a condition of the stomach in which digestive juices are incorrectly secreted, resulting in discomfort.
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Child Care: How to Treat Diarrhea in Children?
Dental caries or tooth decay is the most important cause of tooth loss. It is characterised by a bacteria-induced progressive destruction of the mineral and organic components of the enamel and dentine, the two outer layers of the tooth. It is considered to be one of the most common diseases of modern age caused, in large measure, by eating devitalised foods of today, which are too soft and too sweet.
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Child Care: How to Treat Abdominal Pain in Children?
Abdominal pain is a common complaint of children, especially in the age group between five and ten years. It is estimated that about 10 to 18 per cent of school-going children suffer from recurrent pain in the abdomen.
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