Tips help Children to Sleep Well

August 23, 2011

Parents who decide how much sleep children need. Most children aged 1-2 years old need 10-13 hours sleep per day, including the baby naps anymore.

Some parents find that they need more sleep during the day. However, some will think that, precisely because so many so little nap during the night, children slept little and often harass them. So, please note the following to your baby at night and sleep more deeply:

Establish routine: If children woke up very late in the morning to sleep for the night, let them wake up a little earlier each morning to encourage your baby to sleep more at night when the house was sleeping. Afternoon and evening not to put baby to bed now sleep at night she can sleep better.

Every night when they woke up, repeat what you did to their bed at bedtime each night. If you lull them by feeding little baby woke up half the night when you’ll have to do so.

Avoid baby active at night. Active and strong before bed will cause a lot of excitement, leading to the baby sleeping, or awake during sleep. If the shower makes the baby feel relaxed, let your baby shower before bed

Your children can still sleep in the crib age. Placement should stay away from the cage curtains, windshield, hanging paintings or wall hangings because when high winds, these items can be dangerous for the baby.

Environment is one of the factors causing the baby awake at night. They can be too cold or too hot. During the winter months, your baby should wear warm pajamas.

Children scared to sleep alone because they can see the bizarre shapes when darkness falls. You should dim electricity, help them massive darker.

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Should Babies Drink Water?

August 17, 2011

The pediatrician, said children aged under 12 months should not add too much water, because the implications are huge if it comes to children drinking excess water. Young is too young, do not know what response like, dislike, and not sufficient enough so parents must choose enough doses for children.

Ngoc Ha’s mother made her very proper explanation, breast milk itself contains a certain amount of water, in addition to providing nutrients feed the body, this baby is also enough water for the baby in a day. Infants, and breastfeeding mainly divided into many small meals, even just 1 hour back to a once nursing mothers should not worry you are dehydrated.

For adults, the water is necessary and sufficient to add the necessary, but for other babies, add little water when the body has enough water needed to cause serious disease

When additional water is needed?

However, say that does not mean that children are not drinking while under 12 months old, there are some cases you still need to add water to the child.

- When children begin feeding (usually from month 5 onwards), then in addition to breastfeeding, you should also let me drink some water. Besides water, the baby can drink fruit juice with a certain dose, should not be too much.

- When your baby has a fever, body water loss should be added quickly and the more breastfeeding. This is also a way to help her body temperature decreased slightly.

- The weather is too hot, baby play, a lot of exercise to lose a lot of sweat, which means the amount of body water loss was rapid. This time, the addition of the baby is absolutely necessary, you should also let me sit in a cool place to avoid losing too much water.

- Your baby has diarrhea, water loss should pretty much apart from breastfeeding than usual, you should also let me add a little water to drink to replenish lost water.

- Your baby is vomiting causes dehydration, if the baby is breast feeding after each vomit to avoid starvation and dehydration, while the baby is feeding, they may drink more water.

However, for very young non-breast milk, but in addition it is necessary to add water, like a new baby can digest milk is good for dry and high in more than breast milk so if not enough water will affect your baby’s digestive system later.

Generally, for infants under 3 months old then you can add about 30ml of water per day, over 3 months old, between 30 – 50ml. For fully breastfeed your baby, just take a small sip of water after feeding dessert was done to avoid thrush.

You need to regularly monitor your child’s expression to know whether she has enough water, signs of water shortage is most evident baby constipation, dry mouth and demanded a drink. After birth, you can consult your doctor about drinking regime for your child to avoid child drink too much or too little.

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How to identified correctly fever in children

August 16, 2011

Fever in children has always been interested parents, is one of the main reasons that parents or young people to seek medical care, emergency. Understanding of fever for adults can help us feel at home or caring for young children to visit early in the medical establishment to be detected and treated promptly.

When called the “fever”

According to medical literature, a child is called a fever when the temperature measured inside the anus higher than 38oC. Temperatures measured at other locations on the body temperature is often lower than in the anus. So, if the pair armpit temperature was measured from 37.5 oC or more children at that time known as fever.

Myself fever, itself not a sign of life threatening except in cases of extremely high fever and prolonged, such as higher than 41.6 ° C (as measured inside the anus). Fever may be the only signs point to a serious condition but sometimes just a manifestation of a common infection status. There is a center in the brain called the “hypothalamus” (hypothalamus) have full control of the functions of the body temperature. As commander of the hypothalamus increases the body temperature is one way the body against infection-causing agents. Fever is a common manifestation of infectious diseases, but there are other medical conditions not caused by infection but can cause fever.

The root causes fever

Fever is not a disease, fever is a symptom of many different medical conditions. Usually the root cause of the fever divided into two types: the root causes fever due to infection and fever due to infectious causes are not. Fever caused by infection usually causes a status symbol of viruses or bacteria infection. Causes fever due to infection may not experience in many different medical conditions such as blood cells are destroyed, when the inflammatory disorder, when the breathing problem, due to dehydration; by heatstroke, heatstroke, fever after the vaccine, sometimes due to the thermal center (hypothalamus) in trouble …

The expression is usually accompanied by fever

When a child has a fever, along with state higher body temperature is a common expression such as tired, fussy, flushing, sweating, tremors or shaking, older children can get a headache … Need attention, monitoring changes in the signs above, but should not be too worried, stressed that the signs on the thought that children have severe medical conditions or complications.

Some children are in age groups from 6 months to 6 years old when the temperature increases abruptly may appear fit young then called febrile convulsions. When a child can be seen twitching legs, hands and some parts of the body twitching, eyes rolling backward. Although only a simple febrile convulsion but also saw fit very scared (especially parents and those who directly care for children) seizures but usually not more than 15 minutes and the child recovered completely within 1 hour.

What to do when the child has fever

In most cases the root cause fever in children are caused by viruses, so children will self fever, back to normal after a few days. Most parents or caregivers often try to find ways to reduce fever for children wishing to avoid febrile convulsions may occur. This is true in theory, but the experience of many experts that the condition itself is also much sauce works well with the status of the child, so much so that when fever should also do its mission.

Though fever is also necessary for the young febrile children. Can be used warm water to clean baby wipe but also to know how this child could startle or panic run. So should not wipe the whole body warm for the child when the child has a fever that just wipe in a few places like the forehead, armpit … The use of antipyretic drugs for many children still have opposing views but many experts say should start antipyretic medication for children as measured in the armpit temperature is not lower than 38.5 oC. Antipyretic drugs commonly used dose of paracetamol is not too 3mg/1kg weight and drink every time interval of at least 4 hours to avoid causing harm to the liver.

When a child has a fever usually takes more water (through sweat, respiration …) so it is important to encourage children to drink enough water, not feeding children “abstain” when sick. A still more important than trying to find ways of fever for children, even more than drug fever is to monitor the situation closely fever, for young couples rest and regular temperature.

When children go to hospital?

Parents, caregivers must understand, to track and identify the child when the doctor … Children should be brought immediately to the medical facility when at least one of the following signs: not to drink or not feeding, vomiting everything, convulsions; child unusually sleepy or packaging li ; child difficulty breathing; unusual rash, headache, multiple; children with fever after the area is malaria, dengue fever …

This means in the early diagnosis find root causes fever simultaneously with the timely intervention of treatment.

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Yoga helps kids more active and smarter

August 13, 2011

Parents can do to bring balance in young lives under the pressure of learning and physical changes? The answer is yoga.
Besides studying, swimming and doing homework, children being pulled in different directions on different activities. We still hear a lot about the younger generation will overload of stress or poor concentration in school and fall sick. In addition, it also reduces children’s activities. What can parents do to bring young life balance? The answer is yoga.
Yoga exercises and postures of the arrangement is good not only for adults. People of all ages are able to recover energy and find balance in life. And the audience that included children. From infants to teens, yoga exercises are appropriate.

For children who face the situation changes and wishes to life, yoga can bring to a method necessary to solve difficult situations. With a wealth of benefits, yoga is something that kids can start from as a child and along with it for life. So, you know what?

Yoga good for Children

Yoga can bring up the technical focus required for children before the busy activities. According to experts, there are many benefits and it is not just essentially create a foundation for good health but also the tools to solve the problem of stress. Children can use the techniques of yoga that we learn through situations related to learning problems or overload your friends and plenty more.

Children often continuous activity can reduce stress as well as the body changes. Yoga is an essential tool for children to balance and slow down. Yoga also can balance the effects of skyrocketing development process that allows children to develop body continuous, not abrupt.

Yoga can also enhance concentration skills. When we participate in specific activities, the body sends messages through the nerves connected to the brain, expanded information, breaking down the barriers created by stress.

Even the physical stress of the children now as the effects of backpack, pair of heavy books and sit at a desk all day at school can be reduced through Yoga.

CLASS FOR THE CHILD

So the children can start yoga how? For years, Yoga before pregnancy has become common for pregnant women coming to public life. There is also a class that babies can come to know the same mother as well as yoga classes for children are much larger. As a yoga teacher specializing in teaching the subject of this exercise is gradually turned into a trend and many people like to set it in school anymore.

The wonderful thing about Yoga for kids is what? That is how any child can participate without having an athlete Express.

Some parents join yoga classes with children said they felt great but that was very relaxed.
FROM THE CHILD WITH THE FRIENDLY

Even if your child is not ready to take a Yoga course, they can still practice at home. Investors may suggest folding body suit or a little old trees are also good posture for infants.

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