Pregnancy & Parenting: Tips, advice and information for Indian parents!
Pregnancy & Parenting: Tips, advice and information for Indian parents!
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Many of us would waive an article on immunisation as irrelevant to us. And yet, our own personal experience has shown that even educated parents ignore new vaccines, unaware how critical they can be to their child's health.
Cures from the Kitchen Shelf. External application of half a teaspoon of dry ginger powder with hot water over eyebrows and forehead gives relief in headache.
Accidents caused by baby products are quite common. This is because most products in the Indian market are not made according to any safety standards.
High fever upto 102 degrees Fahrenheit in a newborn could be dangerous and needs immediate management...
Test out the wonders of drumstick leaves, ginger and garlic.
A mild electric shock gives only a brief pins-and-needles sensation. A severe one may knock your child down as well as render her unconscious.
There are no dengue vaccines, so what you could do is keep a dengue patient away from other members of the family and use a mosquito net.
Bumps in the head are quite common in young children and may scare you too. They may look serious and can be, but often they are not.
Your house could be a good breeding ground for mosquitoes if it does not have proper ventilation or is badly lit.
Kids are using common household products to get an instant high. These products are easily available, cheap and are legal.
When food or any other foreign body goes into the lungs instead of the stomach, your child will try to eject it out with a lot of sputtering or coughing.
Most babies throw up a little milk after feeds, especially if the baby has not been burped well. This regurgitation is often described as vomiting...
Poisoning is one of the most common emergencies in children. If you think your child has had something poisonous, the faster you treat it, the better.
In pregnant women, hook worm infection may cause a miscarriage or lead to low birth weight babies and still births.
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Chicken pox is caused by a virus that can be transmitted by proximity to an affected person. Usually, children under ten years of age contract it.
An infectious disease, Hepatitis B spreads through contaminated blood and body secretions such as saliva, vaginal secretion and semen of an infected person.
As children have a tender skin, they bruise easily. Here are a few things you need to keep in mind.
In newborns, a sudden twitching of the eyes or lips, flickering of the fingers, repeated yawning, or sudden stiffening of the body are referred to as fits...
Redness, swelling and watering of the eyes usually indicate conjunctivitis in a newborn and is not an unusual phenomenon among babies...
The time for your child's immunisation is here, but is it really safe for your child? Here are few questions you should not forget to ask your doctor.
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