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Effects of Smoke on the Health of Your Child
It’s a secondhand smoke, also known as environmental smoke is the emanation *- snuff expelled by smokers, the end product of combustion of a cigarette, snuff or pipe. The last puff for cigarettes has many harmful chemicals other than nicotine, and anyone who wants the vapor is considered an involuntary or passive smoking.
In each cigarette you can find 4800 chemicals, most of them undesirable in terms of health. The substances most studied so far, by its negative effects on the body, are carbon monoxide, tar and cyanic acid.
Did you know:
- Children who aspire secondhand smoke are highly likely to suffer from pneumonia, bronchitis and ear infections.
- The children of parents who smoke are likely to develop asthma. If not present, are common choking attacks.
- Each year, 300,000 cases of infections, such as bronchitis and pneumonia in infants under 18 months who aspire secondhand smoke-are roughly between 7,500 and 15,000 hospitalizations.
You can protect your life and your family away from home, be sure your child is in school and day care programs absolutely free of cigarette smoke.
Attention 24 Hours
All babies are different, each according to his personality requires a particular care. Some are independent from its early days, staying quiet all alone in the crib or playing in his first months to observe objects in a yard, while others are a bit more absorbent crying or complaining asking the arms of a parent to bedtime or a simple caress every moment of the day.
The baby is quiet often easier to educate and that requires attention but gives room for your mom to do other things. The case of absorbent baby is very different, it requires a mother with patience, ready to cuddle in their few hours of sleep and 24 hours dedicated to their distraction.
It is common for mothers of babies restless-absorbers tend to despair and became slightly tender; Losing patience moms feel a little guilty, qualifying themselves insensitive and not very tender. The first thing to do in these situations is to try to restore calm, understand that we are all human and each baby has its own personality.
As a mom is to know your baby every day, do not put unnecessary adjectives such as spoiled, and so on. look that often what they want is attention and to mourn all who seek to communicate their needs. Start to discover that crying means each tone is very important because for the baby to mourn the act is not a fad but a way of saying “I need something.” Remember patience is the key.
Finally it is important to be aware that there are situations where we can meet all your needs, sometimes the solution is not in our hands. Also be clear that insofar as you leave the task of helping educate a restless baby will muco easier, let your husband hold him in much of the time your baby on demand.
Do not forget to share your growing baby with your partner and for most moms that try to be perfect can not give what they have because, like the rest of the world are human.
Computers Could Delay the Development of Children
Computers slow psychomotor development of children, according to a recent survey, only should be allowed access to this technology after completing elementary school.
The Alliance for Children an American organization, nonprofit that investigates child growth said in a report that computers and the Internet prevent preschool creatures interrelate with each other and with adults. The specialist also indicates that children who use computer programs to draw, refuse to consider manual labor unrefined. Children need to manipulate objects with their own hands. That way they can understand abstract concepts such as proportion, texture, flexibility and temperature artifacts.
Moreover, scientific studies show that early introduction to computers does not increase the creativity of infants and can cause eyestrain, as well as damage resulting from repeated stress and obesity.
The reduction in time off school hinders children’s social skills. The use of computers at an early age desensitizes children to the emotions of his teammates. The infant brain is more active in terms of socialization and why is particularly dangerous to be exposed to the creatures for so long against the monitors.
When children play with computers, rule out the possibility of playing with peers. They are used to living a virtual world, not real.
A Child Who Snores Doesn’t Breathe Well
Much parents ignore the children snore because they think it’s an upset passenger. The reality is different and should be a warning sign. Who snores and restless sleep half the night wakes up for air. The child can develop high-risk conditions for cardiopulmonary circuit overload and heart function.
The purpose of the alarm message is not medical, but preventable. If this occurs during a cold, no problem. Children who have difficulty swallowing a piece of meat is likely to suffer from this condition.In the U.S., researchers have made a series of reports on children and adults with obstructive respiratory tract who develop heart failure. Even deaths have been recorded for it.
Referring to the most common cause of snoring infant, noted an inordinate increase in the tissue of the tonsils and adenoids. The only absolute indication for operation is when the tonsils are too large and obstruct the airway. Not by a simple tonsillitis, easily treated with antibiotics was surgically intervene. The excessive development of tonsillar tissue may also alter the facial development.
The specialist warned that continuously breathing through the mouth leads to the palate becomes more narrow and suffers an elevation, such as arched palate. Following are problems swallowing and breathing, they will suffer a lifetime of breathing problems and dental, as well as crossbite, temporomandibular joint disorder, lack of development of the midface and lack of development of the mandible.
Short Leg Syndrome
A direct relationship between nasal breathing and lung development. If for no good nostril breathing, not develop a lung and at this present deviations from the column due to the evolution of one side of the chest. The Americans call “short leg syndrome” who have a nostril always blocked and the corresponding leg shorter as a result of this condition.
If your child has already had their tonsils and adenoids removed, what would be the reason to snoring? These bodies are not the only culprits of snoring, but the most common. A child may have a deviated septum, an allergy and palate problems. Installing an anomalous mechanism of bad breath and swallowing, place the tongue in a certain position in order to breathe during sleep, creates and maintains the habit.
Examiner must bite the child and if you have high arched palate call your orthodontist. The dentist can detect any abnormalities responsible for snoring oral and speech therapist can help with exercises that tackle poor swallowing and incorrect tongue position.
What can I do when it is necessary to intervene surgically to the child?
The operation, which in some cases improves the problem of snoring is called faringopalatoplastia. Before deciding on an intervention of this kind should study the reasons and see if they have neurological problems because of such alteration.
It’s a simple surgery and success is guaranteed in terms of a good diagnosis. The patient was hospitalized in the afternoon, dinner and sleep in a room and, sometimes, you can not make the diagnosis in one night.
The ideal position during sleep is on a normal pillow and is recommended to treat sleeping on your side, because usually in that position does not snore. Alcohol promotes snoring because by ingesting the mechanisms of sleep. A central nervous system alcohol out of hand the normal mechanisms of sleep onset by brain swelling that occurs.
Sometimes children who snore should be allocated a separate room for other siblings to sleep. The important thing is not to despair, because new scientific strategies can eliminate forever this annoying “noise” at night.
Therapy for Premature Heartbeats
Premature babies are fragile and defenseless creatures who have left a welcoming and relaxed to face the outside world too quickly. They need our help to succeed, especially the presence of the mother, something that hardly can be replaced by a web camera.
The closer you sit the baby of maternal warmth, his breath, heartbeat, that is what has been deprived by his premature birth, the better.
The Neonatal Unit of Hospital Universitario de Canarias (Tenerife) has been using for 7 months based therapy nannies whose background the sound of the heartbeat and that seems to help reduce stress for preterm infants . So the music that brings benefits demonstrated in premature infants, joins the rhythmic beating contributing to its improvement.
This therapy has been applied in 70 premature infants, in which there has been an improvement in his condition, stabilizing their breathing and heart rates, oxygen saturations increasing and decreasing the heart rate in the cases of infants with tachycardia. Besides the nannies beats bottom promote sleep and make babies cry less and less irritable.
All these improvements seem based on the fact that the sound of the heartbeat produces a positive stimulus in the infant, as is the one who hears inside his mother. The music listening 2 times a day and usually lasts between 15 and 20 minutes, depending on the reaction of the premature infant.
Memories of Childhood
The most significant developments of children easily remember them when saving elements that help us revive them. The first tooth, first cut the curls of hair, the first lens or the first baby clothes may hoard in special containers and decorated for that purpose.
If your child is moved at the age of milk teeth fixed, you can sheathe a shoe box with wrapping paper or fabric in a bright color. Cut in the center of a small square box and Frame it with strips of paper. Cut mice figurines or pictures you find allusions to the teeth and decorate the box with those pictures.
In this container may deposit your children the teeth when they fall out and wait eagerly “the arrival of mouse” who gives money or candy in exchange for teeth.
Other activities you can do with your children is to manufacture an envelope to save locks of hair. You will have to cut out a rectangle on a sheet of corrugated cardboard or sturdy paper, fold it in half, forming an envelope and taping the edges with glue or silicon. Decorate with dried flowers, stickers or illustrations appropriate.
A photo album will always be welcome, especially when prepared by your own son. Provide him with several sheets of colored paper or cardboard and a hole punch to agujeréalas folders. Let your child decorate each sheet of paper with different shapes, leaves and flowers, folded origami, illustrations, cartoons, etc.. Finally, place the leaves in a folder made the same submissions or hold it with a few strips of tape.
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Hypochondriac
When a child is overly concerned about their health is one step from being a hypochondriac. If the symptoms are said to feel real (the parents are eating well, no fever and is not depressed), may be you are nervous about something or not get enough sleep. But it is important to discuss with the doctor about her fears.
Ideally, the doctor will do a complete and thorough checkup to rule out an organic problem. If results are negative, the doctor will try to reassure him by explaining, so he understands that his symptoms did not indicate who is ill.
It is important that both her pediatrician as their parents try to find out what is troubling him and help him to cope. Many times, children are children of parents apprehensive hypochondriacs, that is those who are ill often take many medications or consult a doctor constantly.
More Laughter in Infants
Sure, since the day he was born, renouncement of these will make him smile. Already in its early days will seem that gives you one of those gestures so special when you look at, but it is just a face, a reflex.
Typically do not get to see him really sonreís its sixth week of life. From this point it will be really pleased if you put him make funny faces and funny noises.
From four months, when anything you do grace accompanied with gurgling laughter. And will it meets about six months to discover the need to make you laugh. On these occasions he laughs because he knows that you laugh with him. It is an act of imitation, but still can not understand why his own laughter, just wants to do as your mom or dad.
From the year when you begin to understand the world around you, you begin to entertain the unusual situations. Watch the expressions when he puts mom tries to put a cookie in his mouth sucking, or when it gets a paper hat. Can even understand some jokes and puns my easy. Enjoy all these moments of laughter and fun. It is a very rewarding in the growth of your child.
Bottles and Infant Formula
When the baby stops being fed through breastfeeding to switch to bottle prepared formulas, taking into account some suggestions:
Heat the food. Place the bottle upright submerged in warm water. Avoid using the microwave. It will be at the right temperature when you try to pour a few drops on your wrist and feel warm.
Baby’s head leans on my arm a little to you and with the head higher than the rest of the body, so you can easily swallow.
Hold the bottle always at an angle such that the teat fills with milk. Otherwise, the baby will swallow air along with the food. When you enter a pacifier in his mouth be careful not to push it much.
You can prepare several bottles of milk and store in the refrigerator, but never kept for more than 24 hours.
When you go to feed your child, find a comfortable, quiet place to sit with him. You will probably be more comfortable lying on a sofa or low chair to support him on your lap.
Supports the child’s head in the crook of the elbow and hold his arm back. Keep your buttocks firmly. Make sure there is horizontal. Semisitting should be in position to breathe and swallow without risk of choking.
When you start to suck, tilt the bottle so the teat fills with food and not leaking air.
Sometimes the baby falls asleep while eating, reason is that gases may have. Wake him up and do burp.
The goal is to make burp out the air swallowed during feeding or during crying that preceded it to avoid discomfort. However, each baby has a different attitude to the gaseous and not always feel more satisfied for having burped. Allow the child to pause to do so spontaneously expel the gases.
The burp is positioned to place against your shoulder and massaged his back with a gentle upward motion, avoiding the heavy slaps. You must protect your clothes with a towel or clean cloth diaper, because the baby may drool, spit up or vomit a little milk. Another effective way is sit on your lap and lean forward without bending at the waist. Remember to hold his head with his hand, lest he lose his balance and sliding toward the front.
Colic and the Temperament of the Baby
Colic is not the physical disorders or diseases. Some U.S. experts define colic as crying child continuously for more than three hours a day. The crying is not because you’re hungry, have wet diapers or other visible causes. The baby just will not calm with nothing.
A colicky baby can have a good appetite and healthy suckling reflex. Sick babies may have colic but will not have the same force of sucking reflex and they also drink small amounts of milk. A colicky baby likes to hug and cuddle him. While sick babies, apparently “sore”, prefer to have little contact despite their qualms. Creatures with colic may occasionally regurgitate, but if your baby is vomiting is desirable that you go to your doctor.
Doctors think that cramps are not caused by an allergy to milk. Babies who are breastfed also may suffer from colic. Actually it is not known if the fumes produce colic can be difficult to say whether it was first the gas or colic. A colicky baby can swallow air while crying and not necessarily while feeding. The anti-gas drops do not provide effective treatment.
Colic depend on baby’s temperament. There are some suggestions to prevent your baby suffering from colic. First, make sure the child is not hungry. Immediately continue comforting. Walk with your child in his arms swinging. Put it on your lap face down and rub his back. Swing it with care. The move could ease the effects. Take breaks and let another adult in charge of caring for a while. If the crying continues, drive your car. The vibrations and vehicle movement generally calms the baby.