Child Health

By Jerry Trollock - Mood swings are normal for a person cannot be either sad or happy or angry all the time. Kids are adults only smaller and they have the same range of emotions. However, if they become a constant problem that creates complications in life, they should be take care of.

By Neva Meyers - Baby teething is a very tiring process for both babies and parents. It is not really hard to understand that a baby is going to have teeth as the symptoms are evident usually.

By Neva Meyers - Autism is met with kids and it is very important to recognize it early. Children with autism are different and they require a lot of special attention and patience from parents and teachers. But they can live rather normal if diagnosis and treatment is in time.

By Neva Meyers - Dyslexia is not so infrequent condition in kids. Auditory dyslexia is the form of it and it is a problem with hearing sounds and making sense of them. It involves phonological processing issues and, if left unattended, can complicate a future life of a person considerably.

By Tom Farrel - More and more parents worry about childhood obesity. For your kid to stay healthy you should take actions for childhood obesity prevention.

By Valentina Spragovskaya - Balanced nutrition is an optimal proportion of nutrient materials, biologically active substance and other constituents. Unbalanced feeding makes particularly negative influence on child health. Considering this, parents should effectively think over their child menu. Interval between child nutrition should be not more than 3, 5-4 hours. Some products( milk, fermented milk product, butter, fruits) should exist in their ration everyday, another products (fish, eggs, cheese, cottage cheese, sour cream)-should be consumed 2-3 times per week.

By Claire Billes - If you notice your child bites own nails, this can be an occasional biting or a forming habit. Many people suffer from nail biting even in adult age, so it’s recommended to stop this habit as early as you can. In addition nail biting causes a range of health problems to your child. These are various fungal infections on nails. Also your child constantly gulps new bacteria from fingers. As children can play on street, bacteria from ground or other surfaces can pass to child’s mouth. Finally, nail biting prevents normal nail growth.

By Claire Billes - Child obesity sounded like a joke even fifty years ago. Today it becomes common and thus many start considering it insignificant and thus unimportant to cure, but medical researches show a direct connection between extra weight and such health problems as diabetes, heartburn or asthma.

By Claire Billes - Many parents think if their child has good appetite, this is simply wonderful and find nothing serious in slowly increasing weight. Other part of parents think their baby eats too little and try to make their son or daughter eat more. We all know good appetite is one of signs of normal body functioning, but is overeating healthy? The answer is clear. Overeating and thus obesity can cause numerous problems to your child and you.

By Andrew Mayer - Occasionally the immune system cannot respond fast enough to outpace the rate of invading bacteria reproduction, or the bacteria may produce toxin chemicals so rapidly that they cause some damages before the immune system can respond adequately. When this happens, antibiotic drugs help your body kill off the bad bacteria without attacking the body’s own cells.

By Andrew Mayer - Not smoking around the children is important to safeguard his health. Researchers have proven that passive smoking has a permanent impact on the respiratory system and long-term health of your child. Inhaling tobacco smoke increases the probability of asthma and other critical respiratory conditions and contributes to a host of childhood illnesses, including asthma, middle-ear infections, bronchitis, pneumonia and even cot death.

By Andrew Mayer - Minor side effects after immunizations are quite common, but they are usually temporary. Your child may get inflammation and puffiness at the site of the vaccination injection. A little rash, particularly after the MMR injection, is common. You can effectively relieve these side effects by giving your children the advisable dose of ibuprofen and paracetamol, before or after the injection.

By Andrew Mayer - If you want your kid to eat healthily, you have to serve him a variety of nourishing foods for growth, energy, and development. Food isn’t something worth arguing over, and if your kid insists on eating cheese potato chips, that’s OK - as long as they don’t become his staple diet.

By Andrew Mayer - Even if you try to do everything correctly, your child will get sick - and probably quite often.  This is not a bad thing: curiously your child’s immune system needs to come into direct contact with viruses and bacteria in order to develop a good resistance to the bad germs.  In fact, a few studies shows that the more health problems your child gets in the few years after birth, the healthier he’s likely to be later in life.

By Andrew Mayer - For many of us, the local physician is our first port of call for medical problems. The local physician can make a diagnosis, prescribe drugs, and refer your child to more complete health services if required.

By Claire Billes - Certainly, every parent wants to raise a child that will have no serious health problems. Health is something we should maintain during all our life, so it's important to teach your child how to take care of yourself and what's healthy and what's not.

By Claire Billes - It's not a matter of question our children need toys. Toys entertain, toys develop, toys help to explore surrounding nature. But are toys always safe? We usually buy dolls, games or teddy bears without a thought this piece of plastic or plush can harm our precious baby. However, this is not always so and not all toys are safe for children. 

By Ray Sting - In the first days after conception, when the first division cycles of the fertilized ovum, applies to harmful influences largely the "All or Nothing" - Act. A significant damage leads to the death of the ovum.

By Ray Sting - Children take a special place, which influences the environment (in the broadest sense) on health. For this reason, health and environmental authorities, paediatricians and environmental medicine frequently with questions of the special sensitivity of children to environmental influences from the face.