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755. In the age of the child from four months to a year (especially in the second half) displays of exudate-tion diathesis may change. This is due to the introduction of complementary foods. If earlier diathesis manifested as sweaty-check, milk crusts, redness on the cheeks, this is now the type of skin rash hives, catarrhal changes in the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract, and can be severe skin the type of eczema.
If you find your child have any of the symptoms, you should contact the district pediatrician. Together, you install a new dish on what foods your child gives such a strong reaction.
756. Acute exacerbations of exudative diathesis necessarily make changes to the calendar of preventive vaccinations. If it's time some vaccinations
then it has to be postponed. Children "ekssudatiki" hard to bear vaccinations. You must remember this. Always tell your doctor about new aggravations of exudative diathesis.
757. In ancient times, rickets was quite common disease. Now rickets, disfiguring the person you meet is extremely rare. When people talk about rickets, only apply to the individual manifestations of it ...
In classic rickets in the body are as follows:
- Adversely affects the growth of bones, resulting in a bent legs appear clubfoot, changing shape of the skull (there are parietal and frontal mounds; bridge - sunken, sometimes it is as if he had not), deformed rib cage - there is so-called "chicken breast", on the edges formation of tubercles, which are easy to sound out - a "rosary", evolving forms of violation of the pelvis;
- Late and as usual teething, their teeth grow crooked;
- Decreased muscle tone, and in this regard, there joint laxity; stomach - flabby;
- Rachitic child is slow-moving, it is mostly lies and almost no interest in life;
- Children with rickets behind not only the physical but also in mental development.
Local doctor examines a child for rickets. If you find any of the features (such as "beads" on the edges, or a slight baldness neck, or decrease in muscle tone), then prescribe the appropriate treatment.
You also will need to comply with a valid order of the day in which there is room air and
sun baths, massage, gym, water tempering procedures.
758. Feeding children with signs of rickets has some peculiarities. Meat and fish dishes as well as cheese they introduced into the diet for a month earlier than other children. This is to ensure that the child is no shortage of protein.
Beneficial for children suffering from rickets, vitamin (not just vitamin D, and C, D, etc.). Therefore, the diet of these children fruits and vegetables are also entered for a month earlier than usual.
Semolina, by contrast, is excluded, as some substances contained in semolina, aggravate disorders of calcium metabolism.
759. Noted that if the baby's parents are healthy and correct way of life, if the mother during pregnancy, eating right, and not suffered toxicosis does not hurt, then the child in a family is born strong and healthy. He has enough immune forces to resist infection.
But if the mother had difficulty with health during pregnancy, the baby may be born weak. So far this is not particularly manifest. However, the weakened child usually becomes sick. Viral respiratory infections, sore throats ...
How to strengthen the weakened child health? First, you need to create the appropriate conditions around (good nutrition, regular walks and fresh air in the room, a clear schedule), and second, hardening (air and sun baths, hydrotherapy), third, Gymnastic Exercise
tion. All this you can read the chapter "Hygiene".
760. If your child is frequently ill, you should first of all to protect it from contact with outsiders - both adults and children. Please note that there is enough often you ventilate the room in which it is a child. In rooms with stuffy stagnant air (complete evaporation from the kitchen) has all the conditions for the development of various microorganisms. Clearly, in such an atmosphere, the child will be more likely to hurt.
761. Adversely affects the health of the mother or the baby smoking a family member. For example, a father. If the father is not able to quit smoking, he should at least not to smoke within the apartment (house).
762. When you enter into the diet of a child new foods foods (especially if you type a few ahead of time), the baby may be diarrhea. More often a response to a new feeding occurs in children who are mixed and artificial feeding. Digestive tract, if he is not ready to accept a new food fails, the food is not digested enough to slow down the process of absorption, so in the gut is a lot of liquid.
Do not panic if your child has a single case of diarrhea, need to reconsider his diet.
763. But if the diarrhea is repeated even by vomiting, it may well be a manifestation of some intestinal infection. Increasingly, such infection-
are observed in the summer (that you may be overlooked, and gave the child a dish that already visited flies).
You should immediately call the pediatrician or the "first aid". Why the rush? .. Because if you have diarrhea and vomiting the baby quickly dehydrated. A child dies before our eyes. And after a few hours of his condition can be difficult. Pay attention, not dried out if the baby lips, not a sunken eyes, not a fuse prefontanel ... All this is very ominous symptoms of dehydration. If they are, call all the bells ...
764. The child has repeated vomiting or diarrhea, you suspect an intestinal infection and called a doctor. The doctor was about to come ... While waiting for the doctor, a little help to the child. With vomiting and diarrhea, he loses a lot of fluids and salts. So, it should give the kid a little lightly salted water to drink. On the one hand, it is somewhat easier to feel, on the other hand, the loss of fluid will not be so soon. And later will be much easier to bring a child from this dangerous condition.
765. If a child has repeated diarrhea, do not rush to dispose of diapers. In any case, one of them you should see a doctor. .
When loose stools often try to wash away the child. And you'll avoid skin irritation. You can handle the baby buttocks, perineum baby cream. Some cream protect the skin from further irritation.
766. Normally, a small child chair moves one or more times a day. But if you notice that the chair
No more than a day, it means that the baby constipation (food moves too slowly through the intestines). Constipation happens every child, so you have to know how to deal with them.
Good effect regular enemas. For this procedure, you need to prepare: a rubber bulb (called the common people, "pear" or "enema"), oil cloth, diapers, Vaseline or petroleum jelly and some container with lukewarm water (better-body temperature), you can use chamomile broth (chamomile - all panacea, its use widely.)
Spread the oilcloth on the table, then the diaper, put the baby on his back, his legs can be lifted up, and then type in a can of water, treat the balloon tip with petroleum jelly to avoid injury to the mucous membrane, and easily enter the tip of the child's anus. Do everything slowly and carefully, so as not to frighten the child. Slowly as a child entering the water into the rectum. One-cylinder introduced and wait a minute. Perhaps this will be enough. If the desired effect does not come enter another balloon. Make your child a superficial abdominal massage, stroking his hand in a clockwise direction ... Let us hope that long you have to wait.
767. There are other ways to deal with constipation in young children. The best way - prevention. If the child is breastfed, mother should eat more fresh vegetables and fruits. In addition, it is recommended to exclude from your diet desserts, as well as thick porridge. Perhaps only one of these adjustments will be sufficient to normalize the baby's stool.
768. You have already been introduced into the diet of baby foods. If the baby constipation, try to give him such products that stimulate peristalsis. For example: yogurt, oatmeal, carrot juice, beet juice, tomato juice, and you can also try pureed prunes.
Please note, if a child consumes enough fluids. Increase the amount given by the juice, do not forget about the boiling water and tea.
769. If a child has constipation, think about whether the cause lies not in lack of physical activity of your baby. Start doing gymnastics, let the child works more legs, a good effect is putting some regular child's stomach - certainly before each feeding. Every day for two or three times to lightly massage the baby's stomach (stroking his hand in a clockwise direction).
770. When the child is older, he would be able to give a mild laxative (senna, buckthorn bark). Also used mineral oil, which gives a tablespoon for half an hour before meals.
With constipation not unusual - cracks lining of the anus. These fractures can be very painful, especially the pain is felt during bowel movements. Baby cries. In older age, the child is even afraid to go to the potty, he's already remembers that this is due to the pain.
Of course, that there were no such cracks should first remove the cause - constipation. After each discharge of the child's stool should be thoroughly under-
washed. Anal opening grease baby cream (he has mild anti-inflammatory action) or one of the anti-inflammatory ointments, which can recommend a doctor. Can lubricate and just mineral oil.
771. In children under the age of one year is not uncommon to find an umbilical hernia. This protrusion (various sizes) in the navel. These hernias occur in children because of the weakness of the abdominal wall. Increases the likelihood of hernia in children restless, loving yell. You must have heard the expression, "shouted a hernia"? .. As umbilical hernia can occur in a child who has a chronic difficulties with chair - recurring constipation.
From this knowledge must come and tactics of your behavior. Do not push the child to cry once more, and if he is crying, try to calm him down as quickly as possible. Also find a timely warn constipation and quickly deal with them.
772. Carry out activities to strengthen the abdominal wall at the kid. This is especially gymnastics. When a child is very young, you limit the regular (during diaper changing) reupload it to the stomach. Let the child lie down a few minutes in this position. You will see how he would raise his head, pulling legs. Abdominal muscles are actively involved in these movements. And if you participate, you and develop. Subsequently be useful exercises connected with the raising of the legs in the supine position. Attempts to get the child also strengthen the muscles of the abdomen.
773. Not overlooked, and massage. Several times a day - you can each swaddling - massiruete baby belly. This stroking motion in a clockwise direction. The procedure should take three to five minutes. In addition, it is useful, it also gives the child a lot of fun.
774. Typically, umbilical hernia disappear before the year - as soon as the baby will get stronger abdominal wall. But some children protrusion is too large. Then it may be the probability of incarcerated hernia. Your district pediatrician will decide whether your child needs specialist advice.
775. Experience shows that the use of elastic bandages with umbilical hernia is not justified. Bandaging the desired effect does not. Bint dirty quickly, and it needs to be changed, a bandage bad breath skin.
Hernia, if it is not too large, will dissipate over time. You only have to contribute to the early strengthening of the abdominal wall in the child.
776. There is still quite unpleasant disease characteristic of this age - thrush. Fungal disease of nature. In this disease the child hurts to suck.
If you look in the mouth thrush sick child, you can see it in the language in the mucosal surface of the sky and cheeks bright film - much like the milk. But if you try to remove a tampon film, it can not be removed, but if comes off, then place it remains slightly bleeding wound.
Have you noticed that the child became restless, bad eating (even when obviously hungry) and just in case he looked into the mouth. If there is something on the mucosa, reminiscent of the film, call the district pediatrician. If the diagnosis of yeast infection is confirmed, the doctor will prescribe treatment. Until then, you can manually relieve the child: after every meal let your child drink a little boiling water. This is done in order to wash off the milk from the oral cavity and thus deprive the fungus food.
777. Some parents take for thrush blanching mucosa gum before teething. Be careful. You can even try to confuse you rub the gums with a cotton swab areas. Watch the eating as a child, do not throw a chest barely started sucking.
If you still doubt remains, consult your pediatrician.
778. You have probably noted, when doctors first examined your boy, he drew attention to the scrotum - whether it contains eggs. The thing is, sometimes it is the so-called undescended testicles or one undescended testicle.
In normal testes after birth is located in the scrotum. Some boys they go down in the first days of life. Newborn testicles are very mobile, and from time to time, in response to some stimuli (touch, cold), they can get up into the abdominal cavity. But then you notice that they again fell.
In that case, if the testicles of the baby did not drop into the scrotum to two years, children need to consult a surgeon.
779. The child at one time is very active, and his skin is tender. If we take into account that bad boy has his body, it is not surprising appearance of bruises and scratches on the legs, arms, face ...
Protect the child from such injuries is almost impossible. But do not worry about it. Minor scrapes and scratches - is gaining experience.
780. How to handle the scratches and bruises on the body
child? ..
If the scratches are not too deep and extensive, that in no special treatment is not required. Enough to thoroughly rinse under cold running water. With the rest of the body can handle himself. It happens that the child is afraid the sight of blood. In this case, it is possible to impose on the wound dressing. But do not leave the bandage long. Every wound heals more in the air.
If the wound is deep enough, contact your doctor. Can not it be that the wound on his face, and after healing it formed scar. He will remain for a lifetime. The doctor will decide whether or not to suture to the scar is not too rough.
781. Case every situation even in families where very carefully looked after the children. Just looked - and have overlooked ... For example, in the country the child stepped on a nail or cut a piece of glass.
A lot depends on how deep the wound as deeply penetrated infection. Such wounds should see a doctor. It may need tetanus shot.
782. With no experience of life, children are often exposed to the danger which an adult can easily avoid. This refers to the risk of being bitten by any of the insects most often bees, wasps ...
A wasp sting is very painful. Even the rare adult not scream. Child after such a bite very scared. What should be done at once? .. Try to calm your baby, tell me that the pain is about to take place. If it is possible to attach the bite cold ... After being bitten by a bee sting and should be removed as well to cool the bite.
When otguhol around the bite is too high, the child should see a doctor.