Many parents of children with any discomfort decide to use the emergency to be seen by a specialist. Learn to differentiate a banal case of an emergency, remain calm at the right time and know how to act, it is essential to protect your child.
We must go to the emergency room if …
- A fever over 38 degrees does not refer.
- Appearance of patches on the skin of purple color in a context of febrile illness
- Presence of seizures
- The child has beaten the head and lost consciousness. (more…)
Breast milk contains a substance that kills cancer cells
The benefits of breast milk are well known. Strengthen baby’s immune system and helps to maintain good health throughout life, and that adults who were infants tend to have lower blood pressure, less cholesterol and lower rates of overweight, obesity and type 2 diabetes, according to data the World Health Organization (WHO).
Just investigating the antibacterial properties of breast milk, a group of researchers at Lund University and Gothenburg University in Sweden have discovered that a substance found in breast milk can kill cancer cells, as publisher of the journal PLoS ONE.
Although this substance so special, known as “Hamlet” (Human Alpha-lactalbumin Made Lethal to Tomour cells), was discovered in breast milk for several years, now is when it has been possible to test its effectiveness in humans. Thus, patients with bladder cancer who were treated with the substance killed the cancer cells removed through the urine after each treatment, so there is hope that they will become a medicine for cancer treatment in the future.
Hamlet is composed of a protein and a fatty acid found naturally in breast milk, although not yet known whether the substance is formed naturally in the milk or may be formed in the acidic environment of the stomach of babies. Laboratory experiments have shown that Hamlet kills 40 different types of cancer, and researchers come to study its effect on skin cancer, tumors in the mucous membranes and brain tumors. And most importantly, Hamlet kills only cancer cells and does not affect healthy cells.
Provision of hypoallergenic milk is the major step taken by the parents for children who are allergic to cow’s milk. But in reality there was no significant difference in infant formula-fed (bottle) with hypoallergenic milk.
In perfect hydrolyzed milk, whole cow’s milk protein is broken down completely so that risk for triggering allergies than bottle-feeding is less common. Hydrolysis of milk is usually not recommended for babies who are breastfed and have a high risk of allergy because of a history of allergies from their parents. (more…)
Hint of obesity or overweight children during his life can be seen before the two-year-old child. One sign is the increase in weight rapidly.
A study involving more than 100 children and adolescents who are obese show, half of the children were overweight at age 24 months and 90 percent obese at the age of five years. A quarter are overweight even before the age of five months.
In developed countries, obesity has become a serious concern for health practitioners, health disorders may be caused by excess body weight. In the UK, approximately 27 percent of children suffer from obesity.
Although the weight increase rapidly in childhood have not understood the cause, giving a more solid foods early, poor diet, and lack of physical activity expected to contribute.
The researchers say, children’s eating patterns are formed before the two-year-old child. Therefore, changing eating habits in children older ages are considered more difficult.
These results should be “early warning” for doctors and parents to instill healthy eating patterns early as possible.
Premature babies are more vulnerable to health problems compared with babies who just months. Studies show that premature babies have a greater risk of suffering from autism when he was growing up.
Thanks to medical advances, life expectancy was premature babies is higher. However, children born to less-month delay was often experienced growth and development. The smaller the gestational age and birth weight decrease, the higher the risk of growth disturbance.
In a study of 219 children born before 26 weeks of gestation, about 8 percent of children meet the criteria for autism spectrum disorders at the age of 11 years. Compare with the 153 children who were born just months everything was normal. (more…)
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Caring parents be the deciding factor nutritional condition of children. Abundance of food in the house would be useless if not properly processed by the mother or other family members. When this happens, no wonder if children are malnourished, and even malnutrition. Especially if the child is fed only improvise or even snacks to deceive the stomach to fill.
Malnutrition occurs because the child’s lack of attention from parents. Children abandoned and nutritional needs are not considered because their parents more often in the garden. Not because there is no food in the house. (more…)
Diarrhea in infants and children is a childhood disease that involves removing softer stools and more frequent than usual.
Many babies who are breastfed or semi liquid stools soft eject every time they eat. This is normal.
Most times it is common to defecate after meals, due to an intestinal reflex mechanism (when it begins to move the esophagus during swallowing, the “peristaltic wave” spreads throughout the intestine and bowel movements). Therefore, diarrhea is considered if the infant or child poops more often than they eat.
Can also be accompanied by other symptoms like fever, vomiting, or painful bowel sounds. In these cases the word is also used gastroenteritis.
Acute diarrhea is said, when it lasts a few days. We call the protracted diarrhea that lasts more than 3 weeks. And if it lasts more than 3 months, is said to be chronic diarrhea. (more…)
One more reason for you to give your baby the breast: breast milk is good for the baby’s psychological development. There is evidence that children who are breastfeeding for a short time have more behavioral problems.
Breastfeeding lasting less than six months is associated with increased morbidity in children’s mental health, according to a study in Australia.
Breast milk contains fatty acids and bioactive components that benefit baby’s mental development. One of these components, leptin affects the hypothalamus, hippocampus, pituitary and adrenal glands, reducing stress, while the formula has a depressive effect on the baby.
One interesting finding of this research reports said that younger mothers with fewer years of academic preparation, high stress levels, with less income and who smoked during pregnancy are the most frequently breastfed their children less.
What are the aspects of parenting that are most important for modern parents today? When we look at this problem, we can only sympathies with today’s modern parents, because most of them work or running some jobs full time. There is very little time to spend with children and babies, if both parents work, and where the mother does not work, taking care of a baby is a demanding full time job that keeps the mother busy at all times.
In fact, the care of a baby is a 24-hour job, because even a baby can wake up any time during the night, when parents are trying to recapture the dream, so that parents are basically on call all day and night. That’s why we need modern tools and equipment, including toys and gadgets that can help parents to raise children in a safe and healthy, and still be able to shower love and affection for young children. With these amenities, parents today can breathe a little easier, and get a little help from these tools to raise their children in easier ways.
First, as parents have to watch the baby’s health, and secondly, we must ensure the safety of the baby. So our modern tools and AIDS to help raise a baby focus towards these two points. By using these tools and support, parents can go to work in their professions, and raising a healthy child. These tools and support are what we call Baby Care accessories. Top on the list of accessories for baby care accessories will be referred to the baby’s health – it is the baby’s health information tools and instruments that monitor the baby’s safety. (more…)
A child’s nervous, tense or agitated will always struggle to get his homework (if only to start). Same trouble listening in class, understand or remember.
Children may well be stressed, and stress disrupts initially concentration, i.e. the attention and the ability to set learning
From the outset, we can limit distractions: grouping around itself the necessary equipment, and moving to a quiet place, which – without being totally silent – must be “separate”.
When duties, the greatest difficulties arise with children who do not up and move in the unconscious hope to scroll. Their behavior dilutes their cognitive function, and inevitably risk of annoying relatives already saturated by their own day. The excitement of children creates an electric atmosphere, which blew the parent at the slightest difficulty. You will never make a child still nervous, and his bad posture or repetitive movements are increasing your impatience. The time you spend telling him to “keep right” or “stop fidgeting” is a waste of time and unnecessarily lengthens the duties, as it degrades the quality of the exchange. (more…)
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