All Entries in the "Child Care" Category

Gum diseases are caused by the accumulation of bacteria on your gums. It can lead to serious health disasters apart from tooth loss. This is the reason why it is often referred to as a silent disease. Serious gum diseases can lead to dangerous cardiovascular diseases like strokes, artery blockage etc. You can easily prevent gum diseases by following a strict health regimen for your gums. In this article, we have offered a few tips that will help in preventing gum diseases in children. It is extremely important to brush your teeth at least twice a day. Brushing your teething thoroughly removes the plaque and bacteria accumulated on the surface of your gums. These harmful agents enter our mouth through our food and water intake. It is important to brush your teeth immediately after your meal.  [...]

The IQ tests help in determining an individual’s intelligence levels and cognitive functioning. Often schools organize IQ test for indentifying whether any child requires special education or is suffering from learning disability. Several school psychologists use verbal IQ tests for measuring the ability of a child in understanding and using language. If your child is not scoring impressively in the verbal IQ tests, you can help him in improving his scores. Let us find out how. Check the material covered by the IQ tests of your child. Majority of the verbal IQ tests get designed for testing kids between the ages of 6 and 16 years. These tests materials cover the basic knowledge and skills that a child of this age group should possess. Traditionally, verbal IQ tests consist of 6 sub-sections,  [...]

Although often we associate dry skin with aging individuals, it can occur in people of any age group. Even a child can develop extremely dry skin. This might happen due to a number of factors; for instance low humidity during the winter months, using harsh soaps for prolonged period of time, misusing the moisturizers etc. Dry skin in children can trigger severe conditions like eczema, a condition marked by appearance of dry and flaky patches on the skin. To avoid onset of such conditions, use some simple remedies for treating your child’s dry skin. Wash all the clothes of your child carefully; it is advisable to use unscented detergents for the purpose. Never forget to rinse your child’s clothes twice; this will ensure that no trace of detergent is left in them. If your child  [...]

Kids often get injured and require gentle pain relievers for getting active again. There are several home remedies that can offer instant pain relief naturally; pain in children should always be managed with such home remedies. However, parents must consult the physician if these natural cures fail to offer pain relief to the child. Below we have discussed some of the most effective natural pain reliefs for kids. The cold soaks: If your child suffers from swelling, bruises, jammed fingers and toe stubs, a cold water bath can help in reducing their pain. You can also make your child soak their painful toes or fingers in cold water for 20 minutes to relieve them from the pain. Rest: If your child has incurred a more serious injury i.e. an injury that will take him off his fit for instance sprained  [...]

Majority of the commercial baby products include chemicals, which can cause serious harm to the baby. Thus, many pediatrics nowadays, are suggesting the parents to make baby products at home. In this article we’ll be discussing the process of making baby soaps at home. If you want to begin the process of making baby shampoo right from the scratch, you must have enough skill for accomplishing the procedure successfully; moreover, you will require ingredients like lye and vegetable shortening. Many of us don’t have the right knowledge of using these ingredients and if these ingredients are not used in perfect proportions it might cause serious harm to the baby. Thus it is advisable to use castile soap flakes as the main ingredient of the baby shampoo. Castile soap is extremely gentle in nature  [...]

Breast feeding your infant born via a surrogate mother or adoption is a great decision taken & it is attainable as well as comparatively easy to do with a fairly good likelihood of you producing considerable quantity of milk. Nursing & Breast Milk The duo main problems related to nursing such babies are firstly getting them to nurse & the other being producing breast milk. Setting expectations to a realistic extent is crucial for women in this situation. As nursing transcends more than just breast milk, several moms are content with being able to nurse sans the expectations of producing the complete requirement of the baby – it is the closeness, special bond & the natal attachment of nursing which several moms are yearning for. How to get the infant to take the breasts Though  [...]

It is only natural to be sceptical about a therapy approach that essentially is working on your head’s bone make-up & spinal fluid. Dubbed Craniosacral therapy, it is a non invasive technique of working on the body initiated by W.G. Sutherland, a practitioner of osteopathy from the U.S. who found the presence of an impulsive motion of the skull bones & observed a faint rhythmical impulse which is conspicuous all through the body. Craniosacral therapists assure pregnant women of no post-birthing consequences at the musculoskeletal level after being through their sessions which proffer immense relaxation to them. The Benefits of Craniosacral Therapy Sessions for Newly borns Every baby could be benefited from undergoing some sessions of craniosacral therapy. The delivery process is intense  [...]

Here’s a sneak peek into various baffling and amusing daycare centers facts. Your Kid might be behaving in a different way in day care as compared to home. Day care center is basically a child development center. Day care staff has rotational shifts all through the day hence one could be dropping off little Joana grinning & calm then picking her up in the analogous mode- however under no circumstances speak to the worker who in the midst of the day has to take her away from the meal table since she found the colour of her meal-table seat disagreeable. In case the worker was too busy to pen you a note illustrating the occurrence, one may never find out what your little one’s behavioural hiccups. Clear Perspective – Letting all at the day care know that you are keen for feedbacks about  [...]

Daycare Centers Facts include twelve surprising things that transpire at daycares which all parents must be aware of. Your little one fondly calls the day care teacher ‘Momma’ Particularly younger kids mostly have a tendency of transferring their feelings of fondness to those around – and the lingo going with it. When your kid is spending the entire day with a person who feeds, changes, hugs and tends to him/her in every possible manner, it is rather usual for the kid to develop attachment and fondly dubbing that individual as Momma. Daycare Centers facts are that many times day care workers would feel embarrassment that he/she is been called as Mommas, though they avoid mentioning it to their parents. Clear Perspective – Do not take this to heart and your kid doing so does not mean  [...]

Among majority of the children, Halloween festivities and trick-or-treat could be a mix of enjoyment and fright, however for a child having nut allergy, it could, in reality be unsafe, cautions a physician. Nut allergy is a form of allergy which could be a life-threatening scenario. Simply because the kid merely developed rashes on the foremost instant following exposure to the offender does not essentially translate to the fact that it would not be graver on the subsequent instant, according to Doctor S. Cahill, Asst. Prof. Pediatrics from Loyola Univ. Chicago Stritch School of Medicine. He stated that despite the fact that nut allergies can be grave; children must yet be able to experience a full-filled day during Halloween. He advises that parents should be ensuring that their kid is aware  [...]

An infant’s crying feels ear-splitting, discomforting and ceaseless to many. Mothers soon comprehend that their little ones have an entire gamut of screams, weeps and howls. And no sooner does one feel that one has deciphered reasons for the crying, the baby employs them in new-fangled ways. Here is a handy guide to understanding the triggering factors for tearing and helpful, imaginative ways of calming crying babies. Running the shower. Rubbing the baby’s tummy. Crooning to the tunes of ‘Rock-a-bye-baby’. Checking out some foliage with the baby. Barking or burping or making some astounding noises. Stroking the baby’s mane. Turning on the hair-dryer or some white noise. Handing over the child to some other person. Strolling over gravelly or uneven lawns. Massaging the infant’s  [...]

Blazing Behaviour When to seek medical assistance regarding fever is based on how old the child is. Two months or lesser age babies – For babies in this age band having rectum temperatures of 38 degrees centigrade or more, calling up the physician ASAP, irrespective of whatever hour is of paramount importance. The reasoning for it is that older infants are capable of fighting majority of the infections while younger babies are more susceptible – a grave infection could swiftly spread and lead to life-menacing complications. In such scenarios, the physician in most likelihood would want to examine the kid or in case the newly born is four weeks or lesser then the parent should take the child to the hospital. Three to six months age babies – It is imperative to contact a physician in case  [...]

A vital rule to bear in mind is treating the infant and not the fever. Lowering fever does not have to be done at all times as some extent of it might actually be advantageous in combating infections. Fever on its own is not a sickness and is a caveat that some aspect requires attention. Viral fevers as opposed to bacterial fevers fail to show response to antibiotic therapy. Several virus-caused fevers include Coxsackie virus (or hand foot and mouth disease causing agonizing sore or blister formations in such regions), common-cold and roseola (diagnosed by rashes on the torso emerging subsequent to fever breaking out). Bacteria-caused fever that would show response to antibiotic medicines is particular ear infections (although the paediatrician might adopt a wait-&-watch policy prior to  [...]