Health Problems of Infants

CALCIUM DEFICIENCY

Calcium deficiency in new born babies,in older infants and preschool children is in association with Vitamin D deficiency. Calcarea Phoshoricum is a great boon for such children.

Symptoms

• Irritability
• Jitteriness
• Pain in lower legs.
• Baby finds comfort on massaging his legs.
• White patches are formed on cheeks, forehead, or arms.

Suggestions:

• Pregnant and lactating mothers must have adequate amount of calcium and Vitamin D in their diets to prevent problems associated with calcium deficiency. 
• Artificially fed children are more prone to develop calcium deficiency. The high phosphate content of non-human milk depresses the level of calcium in the blood. 

Medicines in Homeopathy
Calc. fluor., Calc. carb., Calc. phos.

Though rare in breastfed infants, calcium deficiency can occur in such infants whose mothers are deficient in calcium and Vitamin D. 

PREVENTION: Exposure of infants and mothers to adequate sunlight can help in prevention of this condition.

TEETHING

Teething can start at any time between 3 month to 12 months of age. 

Teething symptoms

• Drooling baby
• Babies may refuse to eat or drink.
• Irritability
• A tooth visible below the gum
• Swollen, bulging gums
• Trying to bite, chew, and suck on everything she can get her hands on
• Rubbing her face
• Difficulty in sleeping
• Grabbing her ears
• Waking more at night and generally being more unsettled.

Suggestion

• Gently rubbing over the affected gum with your clean finger may ease the pain. 
• Many children find that biting on a clean and cool object is soothing (for example, a chilled teething ring).
• Chewing on chilled fruit or vegetables may help. 
• Carrots and cucumbers are excellent soothers.

Homeopathic Medicines for Teething

Podophyllum, Belladonna, Calcarea phosphorica, Caffeinum. 

EAR INFECTION

Watch and wait if you notice fussiness, fever, trouble sleeping, or pulling at the ear that lasts for one to three days following congestion or an upper respiratory infection.

Visit the doc if these symptoms last for more than three days or if baby seems to be in severe pain and younger than 6 months. Doctors prefer to let baby's immune system fight an ear infection at first, but antibiotics may be in order if he isn't better after three days.

Homeopathic Medicines  for Ear Infection
Belladonna, Ferrum phos, Hepar sulph., Pulsatilla..

STOMACH VIRUS

Visit the doctor if vomiting or fever lasts more than two days, if baby doesn't want to drink, if she goes for six hours or more without urinating, or if there's blood in her stool. Your baby might have a serious infection such as salmonella or E. coli, which may require treatment with an antibiotic.

What Temperature Indicates That Baby Needs to See a Doctor?

"Fever and the symptoms that accompany it, such as congestion or vomiting, are your baby's way of fighting infection, "Babies tolerate high fever -- 104 degrees plus -- a lot better than we do, and duration is usually a much better indicator of illness than how high it is."

Its Time To see Doctor if the fever lasts more than a day, if other symptoms interfere with baby's ability to get rest and eat well, or if your parental instinct tells you something is wrong. If your baby is younger than 2 months and comes down with a fever, you'll need to take it more seriously and get him checked out immediately -- with newborns, it's much trickier to figure out which infections might be brewing.

Homeopathic Medicines for Fever
Aconite napellus,  Belladonna,  Ferrum phosphoricum

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These medicines are only suggestive and should not be taken without consulting a homoeopathic physician.

Health Problems in New Borns, Part - II

DIARRHOEA

Loose stools with frequency more than 10 in a day are labeled as Diarrhoea in small children.In babies who are teething( 6 months+),at times the number of stools goes as high as 15-20 ion a day.The stools can be watery, frothy, with mucus, smelly, whitish or multi colored.

Causes :

• Food poisoning
• The stomach of babies is not used to too many variety of foods. At 6 months of age, one fruit is to be started and continued for a week before the second fruit / vegetable is introduced in the babies diet.
• The water is added in the child's diet and the water should boiled before giving.
• Rice and wheat should not be given together
• During teething the metabolism of the child changes and that he passes loose stools.
• Formula diets can also cause diarrhoea

Suggestions

• Baby fluid intake should be in plenty.
• Exclusive Breast feeding. Certain elements in breast milk can inhibit the growth of the germs that cause diarrhoea.

Homeopathic medicines for Diarrhoea

Common Homoeopathic medicines are Belladonna, Ipecac, Pulsatilla, China, Chamomilla, Calcarea Carb, Calcarea Phos,Podophyllum.

CONSTIPATION

There are many causes of infant constipation. One of the most common causes of constipation in babies is the introduction of solid foods.

Causes

• Introduction of solid food(s) – breastfed babies may be more prone to constipation when solid foods are introduced. This is because their tiny tummies are used to processing the easily and highly digestible mother’s milk
• Diets low in fiber
• Diets of excessive dairy products (yogurt, cheeses, milk)
• Foods such as Bananas, Cereals, Breads, Pasta and White Potatoes may contribute or cause constipation.

Exercises to Help Relieve Infant Constipation include:

• Tummy Massage – Gently massage and rub baby’s tummy in a clockwise direction. Place your hands at baby’s navel and massage in a circular motion, moving your hand(s) out and away from the center of baby’s belly.
• Bicycle Legs – Place your baby on her back and lightly hold her legs in a half-bent position.  Gently begin to move your baby’s legs as if she is riding a bicycle. Alternate “Bicycle Legs” with Tummy Massage.  *”Bicycle Legs” also may help to relieve a baby who is gassy.
• A Warm Bath – A warm bath helps relaxing the baby.

Suggestion:

• Start with one fruit (apple) or Vegetable (carrot) steamed and pureed.  Give it for 10 days before starting new vegetable or fruit. 
• In a month can start with two fruits and two vegetables.

For Babies younger than 4 months

Try giving one to two ounces of diluted fruit juice such as grape, prune or apple-prune twice daily and practice some of the above exercises. 

Homeopathic Medicines for constipation:
Some Homoeopathic medicines are Nuxvomica,Calcarea Carb, Bryonia, Alumina.

 
These medicines are only suggestive and should not be taken without consulting a homoeopathic physician.

to be continued...

Health Problems in New Born's, Part - I

If you're a new mom, you'll likely have moments of panic about your baby's health. Your child's health is important. Learn about common allergies, cold and flu; how to treat a fever; ear infections; rashes; sore throats, stomach aches, and more.

Common Health problems in new born are:

BRONCHITIS

Bronchitis most commonly affects babies and young children under a year old. Most cases are mild and improve without specific treatment within about two weeks, although some children have severe symptoms and need treatment in hospital. Bronchitis is an infection or inflammation of the large air passages to the lungs. (These airways are called bronchi.) When your child has a cold, sore throat, flu, or sinus infection, the virus that caused it can spread to the bronchi. Once the germs take hold there, the airways become swollen, inflamed, and partly blocked with mucus.

Symptoms:

• Cold symptoms
• Runny nose 
• Nose blocked
• Difficulty in feeding.
• Breathing through mouth.
• Slight fever (100 to 101 degrees Fahrenheit) 
• Crankiness.

Suggestion

• Avoid giving antibiotics to babies as it reduces the babies immunity and the child keeps falling sick more often. Try Homeopathy instead.

Homeopathic Medicines:
Homeopathy provides good treatment for bronchitis and patients can be easily treated in 4-6 days. Common medicines for this are Aconite Nap, Bryonia, Phosphorus, Antim Tart etc but these should be given after consultation with the doctor because symptoms vary from each child to child.

COLIC

Colic is the term used to describe uncontrollable crying in an otherwise healthy baby. If your baby is younger than 5 months old and cries for more than three hours in a row day or three or more days a week for at least three weeks, he's considered colicky.

Symptoms

• Cry is loud, continuous and irritating.
• The baby's face often gets flushed or red. 
• The belly is sometimes distended or prominent 
• The legs alternating between flexed and extended straight out
• The feet are often cold and the hands clenched.

Begins at age of 2-3 weeks

on peak at the age of two months.

Subsides by age of 3-4 months.

There are factors that may worsen the colic symptoms:

• Overfeeding in an attempt to lessen the crying.
• Feeding certain foods, especially those with high sugar content (for example, undiluted juices), may increase the amount of gas in the intestine and worsen the situation.
• The presence of excessive anger, anxiety, fear, or excitement in the household.

Suggestion for relieving colic babies:

• Sit on the chair and hold the baby with his face down and place hi nob your thighs with his face looking at the ground. Put slight pressure with your knees on his chest. With your hands, rub the back of the chest - motion of the hand being from center of the back towards the head.This causes the air inside to move towards the mouth and escape.
• Do not Overfeed. Stick to regular schedule and timing.
• Breastfeeding mothers should avoid too many milk products, caffeine, onions, cabbage, beans, broccoli, and other gas-producing, irritating foods.
• Avoid juices (young infants should not be drinking juice anyway).
• In the formula-fed baby, try changing to a formula containing whey hydrolysate (such as Good Start) or try a low-allergy formula (such as Nutramigen, Alimentum, or Pregestimil).
• Try walking the baby in a front-pouch-style carrier with his legs drawn up and pressure off of his belly.

Homeopathic Medicines

Homoeopathic medicines that can relieve colic are Chamomilla, Mag Phos, Plumbum Met and others but should be only given with consultation with the doctor.

 to be continued...

These medicines are only suggestive and should not be taken without consulting a homoeopathic physician.

Who Are We??

We are all a part of the Divine Light, the vital force, energy, whatever you might call that is within all of us that makes life possible. We come from one life, and if the lessons are learnt and completed we move on to another dimension.

We Must Understand

We must fully understand that a lesson has to be learnt from all sides:

• To give as well as to take.
• To forgive as well as to be forgiven. 

Diamond in Us

We are like those unpolished diamonds which need to be cut and polished from all its faces. All of us possess the same Light / Energy / Power within us to shine like a 24 carat diamond. It is the job of the soul to clean each facet until the surface starts shining. Our task is to keep learning and become God like through knowledge.

Past Life Regression therapy helps us to understand a lot of nuances about ourselves, the way we react, the way we act and the way we live our lives.

A Lady Checking number of Car's

A lady came to me who, while history taking mentioned that she had a habit of checking car numbers every time she would be on the road.On doing the PLR(Past Life Regression)  she saw that in her previous life time she was hit by a car on the road and she noted that car number to tell her husband ( of the previous life time).Her husband came running and picked her up, but before she could tell him the car number, she passed away. So in this life time, she is still searching for that car.

We had done the PLR(Past Life Regression) for some relationship issues, but this also came into light and got treated. Now she has stopped checking on car numbers.

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The mother post child birth

Today we will talk about the mother post child birth.

Usually in the Indian households the whole family is excited about the new baby specially more so if it is the first baby and also if it is male.So all the attention is on the baby and the mother 's nutrition gets neglected.

Mantra to staying fit post child birth

• A mother's body needs to recover from the trauma of childbirth. She needs added nutrition for lactation.
• Milk, curd, cheese should  be in the daily diet(800-900 ml).
• Protein in the form of dal, egg, fish or chicken.
• Coconut,almonds,pistachio are also essential
• Green leafy vegetables and fruits-oranges,apples ,banana,papaya etc are a daily must.
• Good fat in the form of omega 3fattyacids present in flax-seeds, olive oil, home made white butter are required to make the joints work better and the skin to get back its luster.

Postpartum depression

Postpartum depression is also common in new moms. For this the mother should have a segregated 'my' time which she is using to communicate with her friends,parents office people or at times getting a massage done or meditating.

During this time she should be stress free and relaxed knowing fully well that her husband or mother or someone is taking good care of the baby.

The Husband should also be appreciative of his wife as to how well she is handling the new role of the mother and should be supportive in handling the baby.

The touch and hug therapy works very well here too wherein it has to be reinforced into the mother that she looks as good as she used to look before.

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Growth in Children - Part - IV (Importance of Touch)

Today we will understand how important is touch for the new born.

A baby's first emotional bonds are built from physical contact. The mom's loving touch, hug, caress, massage makes the baby feel safe, comfortable and reassured. These babies smile very early and start developing eye contact very soon in life.

All types of touch lead to improved physiological, cognitive, emotional and social development. The loving touch of the mother during massage,bath etc gently stimulates the baby's senses and nurtures his developing mind. It improves the sleep quality and quantity.

Research shows that hugging your baby 8-10 times a day improves his overall growth and development and later on communication and learning skills.

Physical contact like hug, pat, hand shake or a rub on the back with your child is a must till the age of 8-10 years to provide him with reassurance at every step.

to be continued...

Growth in Children - Part -III (Infant care)

INFANT CARE
A new born baby needs lot of love, care and nourishment .The best nourishment for the baby is mothers milk which should be compulsorily given at least for the first 3 months. At times if the mother feels that the baby is hungry and milk produced is not sufficient then she can add top feed. The child at this age does not require any water, juice,fruit,pulses etc. Care should be taken not to add any sugar to the top feed.

Upto the age of 6 Months
If the mother is not working in the first 6 months, then ideally continue feeding the child only breast milk for the first 6 months in a gap of 2.5 – 3 hours during the day and 4-5 hours at night.This habit is to be developed after 2.5-3 months of age.

Digestion and Food in 7th Month
Start giving Apple / Banana in the 7th month starting with one fruit giving it daily for a week and then starting the second one. The child’s body need to understand what kind of enzymes / acid are required to digest that particular fruit. So one needs to be careful that out of enthusiasm we should not keep giving the baby new foods every day. After 15 days rice can be started in the form of puree.Make sure no salt is added to the cereal. Boiled rice can be added to little milk and pureed. Then carrot can be introduced in the rice.While boiling rice one can add carrot and puree in it with little milk. Carrot gives a nice color , texture and taste to the rice cereal.

Protein Rich Diet and 8th Month
In the 8th month we add proteins to the baby’s diet in the form of Lentil, boiled chicken pieces or boiled fish. Boiled potato is a good option for the baby as it gives lot of fat required by the baby to grow and move around. Again making sure no salt is added to this diet. The baby’s body till this time does not know how to process the sodium. So salt which is rich in sodium is avoided till the age of 1 year. Added sodium to the diet can cause trouble to the baby’s kidney’s and later in life may cause kidney problems.

At the age of 9 Months
At 9 months we can add egg and green vegetables like bottle gourd (can be added to rice), ridge gourd, pumpkin etc.In the fruit category papaya, watermelon and musk melon can also be given.

At the age of 10 Months
At 10 months we stop pureeing the food and instead we start mashing the foods so that they are in a semi solid state and the baby learns how to chew the food.Care should be taken not to give any citrus fruit or vegetable like Oranges, tomatoes, grapes, pineapple, mango etc. till 12 months

At the age of 11 Months
Its time now for the baby to start eating wheat product like stuffed parantha, paneer, vegetables without salt in the 11 month.We can start giving curd to the baby at this age.

At the age of 12 Months
At 12 months the baby has sufficient teeth and is ready to chew the food, so we stop mashing the food and start giving small bits of roti soaked in dal, small pieces of fruits, boiled vegetables. After the first year slowly introduce  salt in the diet of the baby’s food and also start adding one citrus fruit per week. Now the baby’s diet should ideally have Two fruits, One raw vegetable ( cucumber), Three glasses of milk, Two meals of cereals ( either rice or wheat)with dal,chicken, fish or egg, the portion size would be small and the baby would be eating every 2.5 – 3 hours.If the mother wants she can continue breast feeding the child for another year once a day.
Breast feeding improves the immunity of the child and can be slowly weened off as decided by the parents.

to be continued...

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