While you enjoy the outdoors this season, and especially the beach, it’s crucial to keep your baby safe in the sun! Babies can quickly suffer the short and long term damage of sunburn that might cause pain, fever and even dehydration!
Do cold sores happen to children? Would my child develop a red blister on his lip? Would it hurt? Would he need any medical treatment? Is it contagious? As a mom worried about her child’s health, a red blister on his lip may disturb her and she’ll be worried until she finds the right treatment for it.
The bee bites can be dangerous for some kids who develop an allergic reaction to it. This is a real disaster! It can cause complications and in the worst cases it can lead to death. Allergic reactions to flying stinging insects including bee bites are relatively common.
School has started and winter season too! We are all waiting for the first rain and the first snow to build a snowman with our kids. But with school season comes the flu season, an infection that parents, caregivers and schools worry about.
Food allergies during holidays are one of our biggest concerns. Holidays are here and treats are ready to be distributed to kids. What to do and how to keep your child away from food that triggers allergy? You know that any tiny piece of a food that triggers allergy in your child can be dangerous.
Every mother is concerned about giving her child the right diet to cover all nutrients. As mothers, we start providing our kids with healthy food from an early age. A diversified diet would give your child all nutrients his body needs. Experts do not recommend giving multivitamin supplement for all kids.
Summer is here and lots of family trips are scheduled. Only one thing makes you hesitate about these trips; car sickness. Your child complains from motion sickness; he feels dizzy every time he’s in the car. This unpleasant condition makes the trip miserable for you and for your child.
Kids are at a high risk of having a fracture especially that they play roughly, jump from high levels and do not calculate the risk of injuries. Differentiating bruises from fractures is a bit confusing especially if you have never experienced any bone fracture before.
You wake up in the middle of the night on a weeping voice. You check on your child and you see him clutched to a pillow and curled around it. He has stomach cramps. Stomach cramps commonly happen to children and can be treated once you identify the cause.
My 9 year-old boy told me that during school time he noticed that he can see white spots in his left eye. This happened for the first time and he was worried about it. As parents, we do get worried when one of our kids mentions an illness and especially if we don’t know what might be its cause and its prognostic.
Your child’s teacher may call you to draw your attention on your child’s spelling mistakes. Your child excuse would be that he cannot see the board clearly and had a terrible headache during the day. As a parent, you should doubt if your preschooler has a vision problem.
No mom will like seeing her child having diarrhea, but you should know that it is impossible to prevent any contamination especially if your child is attending school or nursery.
