Tag: Child Health

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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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How to treat children’s cough at home without going to the hospital?

[Children cough, cough is afraid of cough pneumonia! ] This advertisement is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people that many parents immediately give their children medicine when they hear their children cough. In fact, the logic of coughing up pneumonia is similar to that of fever burning out the brain, making a mistake about the causal relationship. Cough does not cause pneumonia Pneumonia may cause cough, but cough will not cause pneumonia. Many parents say that their children get pneumonia after coughing for a few days, because the children already have lung infection when coughing. However, children with mycoplasma pneumonia may only have symptoms of cough. Cough may be an early manifestation of pneumonia, but it cannot Read More …

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How to Maintain Children’s Bone Health: Interpretation of the American Academy of Pediatrics Guidelines on Optimizing Children’s and Adolescents’ Bone Health

I. Recommended amounts of new calcium and vitamin D According to the recommendation of the American Medical Research Institute in 2011, this guideline updated the recommended amount of calcium and vitamin D in children’s daily diet (see the figure below). It should be noted that we only need to supplement according to the recommended amount. There is no evidence that exceeding the recommended amount will be better, let alone according to the upper limit. Exceeding the upper limit may cause side effects. Second, encourage calcium and vitamin D from diet As can be seen from the above figure, the daily calcium requirement within one year old is less than 300 milligrams. The calcium content in breast milk can meet the Read More …

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How to correctly deal with children’s fever?

There are many reasons for children’s fever. Infection, inflammation, tumor, metabolic immunity and other reasons can cause fever. Children of different ages have different causes and treatment measures for fever. For parents, it is difficult to judge the cause of children’s fever, and how to deal with it? The age of that child is very important If your child is less than three months old, As long as the body temperature is higher than 38 ℃, you should go to the hospital. Because at this age, especially during the neonatal period (0-28 days), more than 10% of fever is caused by serious infection, such as bacteremia, meningitis, pneumonia, etc., and the immune system of the newborn is not perfect, which Read More …

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How to give children snacks?

Eating snacks is an irreplaceable happiness in every child’s childhood and should meet the needs of children. How to choose nutritious and healthy snacks for children is indeed a big problem for parents. If you don’t give them food, your child will be greedy. Give it, and worry about affecting children’s health, or eat [small fat mound]. So, how to give children snacks, should they eat snacks from how? Snacks can be eaten! Encourage sharing Snacks are also one of children’s social activities. If you limit your child to not buying at all, it will often make the child very depressed, but you need to control the amount and encourage the child to share with his peers. When sharing, the Read More …

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Children wetting the bed is also a disease, how to do?

Do you remember the last time you wet your bed when you were a child? Did your parents beat you? Have you been laughed at by the children? I think the vast majority of people do not remember the distant bedwetting years at all, because many people have stopped bedwetting as long as they can remember. Therefore, what parents are really nervous about is definitely not the bedwetting of too many children, but the feeling that they are still urinating at an age when they should not urinate. After the mental age of most children reaches 5 years old, they already have bladder control ability during the day and at night. Is your child still wetting the bed? However, there Read More …

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Americans do health care for their babies in this way.

Parents often consult: [The physical examination of children’s health care in our hospitals here is always bone mineral density and trace elements, but many popular science said it was unnecessary. Do children’s health care really need to do some what examination? ] The most important thing in children’s health care is not to draw blood or use various instruments for examination. In addition to evaluating children’s physical development such as height and weight and the level of sports, language, cognition and other abilities, In addition to doing physical examination for children, another very important step is for doctors and parents to exchange information about children’s rearing and health-which are well done and which can be improved. In the next stage, Read More …

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Children’s Cancer: As Long as You Don’t Give Up, There’s Still Hope

Cancer makes people turn pale at the smell. If the cancer patient is a child, everyone will be even more nervous. Although cancer can threaten life, there is still optimistic news: in the past few decades, progress in cancer treatment has increased the five-year survival rate of children’s cancer to more than 80%. At present, various types of childhood cancers can be cured or controlled, allowing children to obtain a better quality of life until they reach adulthood. The following references to [cancer] refer to [malignant tumor]. Children’s Cancer Has Hope for Treatment, Children’s cancer is different from adult cancer. For the same type of cancer, children’s recovery results may be better than adults’. Treating tumors in childhood is often Read More …

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Parents know this, children suffering from asthma can also grow up healthily.

The respiratory tract of asthmatic patients is very sensitive. When stimulated by allergens, strong reactions will occur, and the airway will become narrow, resulting in dyspnea. We can intuitively understand the changes of children’s airway when asthma attacks through the figure. Because children’s airway development is not mature, asthma poses a greater threat to children. If children’s asthma is not treated properly, the acute attack of asthma may be fatal. Will the child have asthma? Asthma is very [cunning], especially in young children. It is likely to be confused with acute or chronic bronchitis, pneumonia and chronic cough. Therefore, parents should be alert to whether the child suffers from asthma when the child has the following conditions. Repeated attacks of Read More …

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Is Lanjunjing a vaccine? Is it effective?

At the beginning of 2015, several media began to pay attention to a drug called [Lantigen B]. It is said that many children have used the drug as a second type of vaccine (i.e. A vaccine at their own expense), and many vaccination sites have also recommended it to parents as a vaccine. However, on April 10, Yu Jingjin, director of the Disease Prevention and Control Bureau of the State Health and Planning Commission, made it clear at the press conference that [Lanjunjing] is not a vaccine, but a [therapeutic biological product] approved by the State Food and Drug Administration and cannot be used as a vaccine. Later, a well-known financial weekly published an article called “Lanjunjing Disturbance”, which was Read More …