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Learn to Walk Properly
During childhood, the lower limbs grow faster than the trunk and they are subject to the influence of external factors acting from before birth. Thus, the curvature of the tibia has been attributed to an abnormal position inside the uterus. The same goes for some varieties of clubfoot.
Any child who is learning to walk initially displayed signs of flat feet. While some have a well defined bow before starting to walk, others lack it at all, however, later showed a completely normal foot. On the other hand, do not encourage the child to walk before it is able to stand up for himself. If you do this too soon and is helped to take the first steps, they are forced arcs and relax the ligaments that hold the foot. Thus, unwittingly, parents contribute to the child suffering from flat feet. Once consolidated the way, if the longitudinal arch was recently formed, it can help in the normal foot development by raising about 40 mm from the inner edge of the sole.
To strengthen the foot, experts advise that during the preschool period children go barefoot as much as possible. It is also recommended that when biking or go up stairs to do her toe work. From the second year of life, they can help the proper growth of the lower limbs, teaching them to stand on tiptoe, lifting and flexing the foot so that the body weight load on the forefoot. Anyway, it should be noted that up to 4 years, the foot of the majority of children is flat in nature. After that age, thanks to the gradual strengthening of the ligaments, will be dictated the longitudinal arch. However, if the deformation of the foot threatens to worsen, you should consult with an orthopedist.
Although experts advise that children go barefoot, walking inside the house can use a soft shoe upper part of which is the point and whose sole is made of suede or soft leather. For the foot has complete freedom, the shoes should be long enough. As the widening Antirix something every time it supports, it is necessary that the front of the shoe is loose. Although the boots do not mean support for the ankle, will prevent the young take their shoes because the heel fit and prevent slipping, as frequent as they begin to take the first steps.
Avoiding Accidents for Baby
Babies often move faster than we imagined and often go through tiny spaces, so it is much needed all our attention and bring them to condition the space of the home to avoid accidents. These bad experiences can be avoided if we consider the following tips:
- Make sure your baby does not reach the level of windows prevents these remain open and if possible put a fence to guard. If there are stairs in your house avoid placing a baby step.
- Watch your baby all the time in the bathroom in his first months banal restrained by you.
- Removes the child’s reach every object seudopunsante: scissors, etc..
- Place remedies and poisons in high place.
- As long as baby do not let up just a bed, looking to move a lot and often a fall is not recommended.
- When you go by car take him in his chair with seat belts. Him a ride to remember to tie car.
- Do not give toys or objects small enough to fit him in the mouth because you can choke.
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Fibers to Treat Constipation
Generally, constipation is caused by an inadequate diet, rich in highly concentrated foods and low in fiber. This problem need not exist if the child follows a balanced diet with foods that contain fiber, and take enough water. Fiber is a component of plant foods that the body does not digest and, therefore, is excreted in faeces.
Foods rich in fiber are whole grains and dairy products (bread, pasta, etc..), Legumes (lentils, chickpeas, beans, peas, etc..), Vegetables in general and the natural fruit.
They also provide a good amount of fiber dried fruits, which kids can eat in moderation after three years. Children under this age is better than not having a meal of small size, do not chew well and are more likely to choke.
On reaching the intestine, this substance captures water, thereby increasing the volume of stool and softens. When the diet is high in fiber does not have to cause discomfort to poop.
It is considered that the school-age child needs to consume between 10 and 16 grams of fiber per day, but it is not necessary to do calculations, we can be sure that this amount if you eat a balanced diet.
Childhood Vaccine Against Pneumococcal Meningitis
Childhood vaccine against pneumococcal meningitis caused by the twelfth edition of the Latin American Congress of Pediatrics held in Motevideo, Uruguay, was presented the first vaccine against pneumococcal bacteria, which may be applied to infants aged two months.
The bacteria, whose scientific name is Streptococsus pneumoniae, can cause dreaded diseases such as meningitis, pneumonia and otitis media.
More than 40 thousand children around the world are hopelessly polluted and then die. According to experts, children may suffer from convalescent mental retardation. In Latin America bacterial meningitis caused by pneumococcus affects 30% of small and causes the deaths of six infants a day.
It is estimated that within three years more than 80% of children have experienced at least once a disease caused by bacteria. Pneumococcus is the bacterial agent that causes pneumonia more frequently and are exposed children under 5 years.
The bacterium is resistant to antibiotics and the creatures with this condition often require prolonged medical treatment and even hospitalization. The pneumococcal vaccine has been used successfully in clinical studies in the United States and some European countries.
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Remember Popeye
Popeye was right, eating spinach is very important because it contains iron. During the second and third quarter, demand for iron triples and the recommended daily intake is 30 milligrams. The small house also should consume iron for infants breast milk and iron-fortified formulas are sufficient, but the cow’s milk, soy and goat are low in iron and therefore not recommended for children under 1 year. At age 6 months is important to feed them with fruits, vegetables and vitamin C-rich juices and to also ingest iron. Foods that contain iron include beef, turkey, shrimp, eggs, beans, plums and spinach.
The Newborn Screening Test
The Newborn Screening Test Gone are the time of delivery. That little person is expected since both your arms. Everything went wonderfully and you and your baby go home amid the joy of family and friends. But while your new baby is apparently healthy, a disease may manifest itself during the first weeks of life, producing irreversible damage to their health or even death.
How do I find out if the baby was born with a disease that puts him in danger? With the Newborn Screening Test, also known as Heel test that seeks to detect various diseases in the first days after birth, to give treatment that minimizes or completely finished with the effects that might affect you for life.
Some disorders that cause these diseases are: mental retardation, growth problems, cardiac malfunction and death.
Microbiology Specialists say that what is sought by this test is to detect diseases that have solutions with treatments and special diets.
In several countries, clinics, health centers, hospitals and private clinics perform this test for free.
The process is simple. It involves extracting a few drops of blood from the baby’s heel, which will be analyzed in a specialized laboratory.
Best results are achieved if the test is done between 4 and 7 days old. Medical experts say it is ideal to make it 4 days, because it is when the highest peak in the concentration of hormones or substances that cause disease.
In determining a test problem, the mother will be informed immediately and the child will be referred to specialized medical center to begin treatment as quickly as possible. The sooner the baby be delivered medicines and special foods, the more likely you do not have consequences in the future, or that they are minimized.
Recalls the importance of carrying your newborn to have this test. The Nips that surely will mourn, you can save your life. In this case meets the literally the saying that so we repeated our grandparents: “Do not leave for tomorrow what you can do today.”
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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.