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Baby Food (1)
On the website feed Eroski I found a story of John Revenga that I found very interesting. Surely this has happened to many with your children. Suddenly they stop eating and there is no way to make them try anything new or to eat a dish best eaten within a few days before without problems. I hope you help. Let the first part.
It is essential that children have at their disposal a variety of foods appropriate and rational, not always satisfy your appetite with the products that they like.
Parents worry about feeding their children. The apparent lack of appetite or insatiable craving for some, refusal to eat anything, eat certain foods and slow the rate of intake are the most common difficulties. Each situation reflects some circumstances of the young age of the children and has a simple approach in most cases, although it is essential to remain calm and not exaggerate the problem.
Unpredictable appetite
Instability in the child’s appetite, one day not eat and the next left clean your plate, is a headache for parents and school lunch monitors. Often, even the desire to eat is related to mood. However, changes in appetite in children for short periods of time are common and, therefore, expected sometime in childhood. To understand, just learn the variations recorded the caloric needs of small depending on their age and growth rate.
In the first months of life, 35% of the calories you eat a baby is destined for growth, creation or expansion of new body structures, etc. With a year, although the weight and size increase, the growth rate is much lower and therefore devotes himself body requires fewer calories to function. In 2009, “Pediatric Nutrition Handbook” (Handbook of Nutrition in Pediatrics), published by the American Academy of Pediatrics stated that “a child’s appetite can be used as an indicator on your calorie needs.” Except for rare exceptions, and dismissed disorders or childhood diseases, if a child does not eat more is because you do not. Now it is indispensable to have at hand a suitable food supply and rational, by any means to eat only foods that you like. Falling into this position and keep in time may influence the child’s behavior and that is picky eating.
From birth and up to two years, the caloric needs of two children the same age can be very different to the point double in relation to each other, as revealed in a study by the Center Children’s Nutrition Research of the Ministry of Agriculture of the United States in 2002. This evidence calls to avoid the practice of “unfairness,” so common among parents with children of similar ages or between own brothers.
Treatment of Fever
Always consult your doctor or nearest health center.
What to do and what not to do when your child has a fever?
* Not always necessary to treat feverish conditions with temperatures below 38 °
* It is not necessary to try to completely normalize body temperature
* You must treat fever:
- In children under 3 years
- in children under 6 years with history of febrile seizures
- In the Heat illness or heat stroke
- causes severe discomfort when
General measures
* In children under 6 months to maintain exclusive breast.
* Ambient temperature: it must be comfortable, around 20 ° or 21 °
* Clothes: must wear light clothing, loose or bare
* Rest: avoid heat-generating activities (playing, running or jumping)
* Hydration: provide water on demand of the child, respecting the thirst
* Food: should be high in calories and offer respecting the initial appetite usually present
* Affection: the child needs to be accompanied and comforted
Bed Wetting: a problematic family
At what age is appropriate for a child to start controlling sphincters?
If we respect children’s time should be when available, when lifting with a dry diaper, when asked to go to the bathroom or potty seat (potty). That is the age at which children can or are able to control. However, not always the case.
Often, before a family situation that requires it, such as starting the garden, holidays, a family trip or stay overnight elsewhere, are required to start controlling sphincters when in fact they are not ready yet. At times, long before the two years. Hopefully close to three.
From this we mean when we say enuresis: children who pee during the night or sometime during the day but on several occasions, to those who, having learned to control their sphincters for some time, for some reason they stop. When, how, where and why questions are not arbitrary. If it happens to four years is almost “normal” (this usually happen if you began to control early).
The relationship between the family and pediatrician
While parents enjoy their children accompanying them, watching them grow up, playing and giving and receiving affection, will also spend moments of concern for their health and wellbeing.
The doctor carries out functions while the child is healthy, on issues related to their upbringing, education, growth and development among others, as if you become ill, both common diseases, such as more complicated diseases that require the participation of specialists in this time the pediatrician serves as the physician, coordinator and trusted person in the family.
Many families establish a relationship with the pediatrician that may persist until late teens. Like any relationship, it unfolds over time and depends on both professional and personal factors and is often the case that many adults continue to maintain contact with their ex-pediatricians, which leaves turn to be “ex” when their ex patients in turn become parents.
The pediatrician may also be consulted and provide solutions to behavioral problems, emotional and family. You can work in teams with teachers and educational psychologists in school problems. If your child has a special problem, can take to help you choose another specialist for care.