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Showing posts with label Save the babies from infections - precautions and treatments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Save the babies from infections - precautions and treatments. Show all posts

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Save the babies from infections - precautions and treatments

Wash your hands often with soap and water and once again before handling the baby. If your child is under two years of age and has a cold, put him to bed and make sure he is kept warm in every part of his body. With older children, it is not necessary to confine them to bed unless they are fever- ish. See to it that the room is free of drafts. 

You can get ventilation by opening a window in another room. For a sick child with fever, it's important to make certain he gets adequate amounts of fluid. Encourage him to drink small quantities fre- quently. Because fever makes a child perspire, he loses body fluids and may become "dried out," lowering resistance to germs still more. To prevent this, give a sufficient volume of fluids so that the child urinates in normal amounts.

 An adequate urine output will be indicated by a light- yellow color instead of a dark-brownish color, which usually signifies insufficient fluid. In addition to milk and water, try fruit juices and car- bonated drinks; grapefruit 'and melons are good sources of extra fluid. If you think you should give your child nose drops, ask your doctor first. Nose drops and antihistamine pills have no curative effect whatever. They simply ease symptoms. But always let your doctor decide whether any medicine should be used and what kind it should be. 


 There are two simple measures you can use to relieve a mucus-plugged nose in an infant. First, loosen the mucus by putting in the nostrils a few drops of sterile saline solution. You can make the solution by adding a teaspoonful of salt to a pint of boiling water and then cooling to body temperature. Next, after a few minutes, suck out the mucus with a rubber-tipped bulb. Second, try increasing the humidity of the air the infant breathes. 

An electric humidifier is a worthwhile investment, help- ful for all the family's colds. A fair substitute is to keep one or more pans of hot water on a radiator. It's very important to realize that a cold paves the way for other germs called "secondary invaders." These are germs like the pneumococcus and especially the streptococcus.