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Allergies and Asthma in Toddlers
Learn everything about allergic asthma - various kinds of asthma, causes, symptoms as well as the precautions you can take to minimize your toddler’s discomfort.
Asthma can be very debilitating for a toddler, as an attack prevents him from playing freely. However, a few precautions can help you handle it better for him. Any kind of allergy is a body’s reaction to allergens in the atmosphere.
Some children have an over sensitive immune system. It reacts even to the apparently harmless allergens and produces a reaction that can include sneezing, coughing, watering of the eyes or inflammation and swelling.
What is Allergic Asthma?
Allergic asthma is quite common in kids. When the body comes in contact with an allergen, the muscles of the airways tighten and become inflamed. They might then get filled up with mucous causing tightness in the chest and difficulty in breathing.
Causes of Allergic Asthma
Allergens are specific to people. An allergen that might not affect one person may cause acute discomfort to another. What makes it even more difficult to segregate the triggers is the fact that two or more of them can act together to cause an attack. However, common causes of allergic asthma are:
Pollen
Smoke
Furry animals
Mold
Dust mites
There are some irritants too that may worsen an asthma attack. Some of them may be:
Air pollution
Strong fumes
Air fresheners, perfumes or incense
Dusty places
Symptoms of Allergic Asthma
A recurrent cough is the most common symptom of Asthma. You might also find your toddler wheezing – making a whistle-like sound while breathing. However, wheezing doesn’t necessarily mean your child has asthma. Your child may become out of breath soon and take an inordinate amount of time to catch his breath. His chest may feel congested or he may complain that his chest is hurting.
Who is More Prone to Asthma
A lot of toddlers are susceptible to allergic asthma. Doctors believe a mix of hereditary and environmental factors are responsible. A child may have asthma if he:
Has a low birth weight
Has a family history of asthma
Lives with a smoker
Lives in a polluted urban area
Has other allergies like eczema, etc.
Types of Asthma
Child Onset Asthma begins in childhood. Exercise-Induced Asthma manifests itself only while doing exercise. Nocturnal Asthma is triggered between midnight and 8 am. It is often most severe between 2 am and 4 am. Cough-Induced Asthma is difficult to diagnose because the patient might not exhibit asthma type symptoms.
Precautions You Can Take
The only way to prevent this allergic reaction is to recognize and remove or minimize your toddler’s exposure to allergens.
Keep him away from dusty areas.
Make sure your house is dust-free.
Change the sheets frequently.
Do not keep pets and avoid play dates at homes with pets.
Make sure windows are kept closed during pollen season.
A few precautions will help you keep your toddler safe. As he grows, and the airways broaden he will, in all likelihood, outgrow his asthma troubles by the time he reaches teenage. Read more
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How to Teach Your Child to be Grateful and Why It Is Important
Teaching your child to say 'thank you' could mark the beginning of a lifelong sense of gratitude. Research has shown that people who have gratitude increase their happiness levels by as much as twenty-five percent. However, teaching gratitude to children can be tricky. When they are under the age of 7, they have great difficulty in understanding others' emotion. Let's look at some ways of cultivating gratitude and appreciation in children.
Why is It Necessary to Teach Gratitude to Children?
By developing a sense of gratitude, children are opened up into the world of others. They discover that the world is more than just what they feel and they want, at a given time. Thankful children naturally become polite and kind towards others. By teaching children appreciation, they also learn to respect one another, share toys, and give out hugs!
Children who have gratitude have shown to become optimistic and less prone to depression when they enter adulthood. According to Mary Jane Ryan, author of 'Attitudes of Gratitude', no child is born grateful, but it is something that needs to be inculcated by the parent.
One of the key advantages of explaining gratitude to your child is that it gives him perspective. Once you can make your child aware of the benefits and privileges that he enjoys, which a large number of children in the world do not benefit from, it can make him appreciate his blessings more. Your child, if not reminded constantly, could get used to not caring about where his toys come from. Once he understands that the toy did not materialize out of thin air and that someone was responsible for creating it, this creates newfound respect within your child.
Gratitude also helps foster more genuine relationships. This is because of the perspective that it generates. Next time your child demands that he wants something immediately, remind him gently about what he already has, and to understand whether he really has the need for the new object he desires. Once he learns to acknowledge that, he would slowly start gaining the ability to reflect on his demand before verbalizing it as a command.
When Do Kids Start Learning the Meaning of Appreciation?
Children and toddlers are, by nature, self-centred. This is more of a biological necessity for sustenance, but feelings of gratitude can be instilled in children at a very young age. Around the age of 1 to 2 years, they come to realize that they are separate human beings from their parents, and that mummy and daddy do things to make them happy. Your child might not be able to articulate gratitude, but he can certainly begin to comprehend it.
By the age of 2 to 3 years, they can begin talking about things that they are thankful for or at least express it using actions. By the age of four, most children develop the ability to be grateful for not just material objects, but also for acts and gestures of kindness, love and affection.
Ways to Teach Gratitude to Children
Below are twelve ways to teach children to be thankful and count their blessings.
1. Role Model
The best way to teach a philosophy of life, such as gratitude, is by example and not by lecture. Children learn best by emulating their parents, and what better way could there be than to lead by example! A simple way to start would be to say "thank you" and "please" to your spouse and child, as often as possible. Bring in the topic of gratitude as often as possible. While going out for a walk on a clear day, you could say "how lucky we are to be strolling out on such a bright and sunny day!" This also teaches to be grateful for the simplest and most mundane of things, which often tend to be ignored.
2. Encourage Children to Help Out
By encouraging your child to help out with household chores, such as washing the dishes or watering the plants, you generate an environment for them to learn gratitude. By physically doing things, your child realizes that it takes effort and that he should not take things for granted. On the other hand, the more you do for your child without verbalizing the effort it takes, the more chances for your child to take it for granted.
3. Interact with Your Kids
Asking your child to name a thing to be grateful for (a new thing a day) is a good way on how to make your child feel grateful. Be sure to set time aside for face-to-face interaction with your child. Many families find dinner time quite suitable for this.
4. Encourage Donating to the Needy
Taking stock of unused items such as books, toys and clothes and donating to those in need is a great example of promoting generosity in children. Taking your child to visit those in less privileged conditions gives them a real-life need to become gracious.
5. Give Concrete Examples
Giving actual examples of incidences that promote generosity must be done so that children get to learn from those real-life instances. One example of how to teach kids appreciation could be sharing good news, such as - "We got new computers at our workplace today! How lucky we were to get our old ones replaced!".
6. Encourage Reading Books That Promote Gratitude
Books such as 'The Giving Tree' and 'Have You Filled a Bucket Today?' have strong moral foundations and provide excellent reading material.
7. Insist on 'Thank You' Notes
Thank you notes could even mean a little piece of paper with a flower on it. Children love to express emotion in the form of little letters and drawings. Encourage your child to make a 'thank you' note whenever there is an instance that needs to be thanked for. For example, he could write to someone who gifted him a lovely toy on his birthday.
8. Be Assertive
Most children keep track of the latest things in the market and keep pestering their parents for the same. They may ask for toys, video games or chocolates. Being a parent, you tend to fulfil all the desires of your child. Some of us may buy whatever they wish to put an end to their tantrums. This attitude will sabotage the growth of thankfulness in your child. Parents must realise that saying 'no' too many times will make saying 'yes' sound much sweeter. This policy will help you to raise children with an attitude of gratitude.
9. Be Patient
You must understand that your child will not imbibe this habit all of a sudden. It may take him days, weeks, months or years - and hearing a 'no' while asking for he wants is sure to induce tears! Parents should stay calm and help the children to cultivate the habit of appreciation and gratitude.
10. Thank Those Who Serve You
Children need to say thank you to those who serve them. For instance, most of us tend to take the work performed by our domestic help for granted. Our children also follow in our footsteps. As a parent, we must instil good values in our children. A bus conductor, sweeper in the school, driver or a domestic help at home must be thanked for the services rendered by them. Children must be trained to give due respect to such people.
11. Maintain a Journal
Ask your child to keep a note of the things he is grateful for on a daily basis. At the end of the week, you can make him read out loud the same. This will encourage him to think about each and every aspect of his life and count his blessings.
12. Birthdays - Celebrate Responsibly!
Usually, birthdays are seen as a day in which the child tends to go for an all-out, I-need-everything mode. While celebrating his birthday would be a joyful thing to do, make him also understand how lucky he is to have people who love him and celebrate him, and shower their blessings upon him. Teach him to send thank you notes to the guests who came to his birthday party and presented him with gifts too.
13. Expose Kids to the Consequences of Their Action
Exposing children to the consequences of their action is a simple but powerful way of helping the children learn about gratitude. Care should be taken to not bail them out or bribe them out of any situation.
As it has been proven that raising children with an attitude of gratitude can create lifelong happiness for your children, it is important to begin these practices right from an early age.
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5 Prominent Ill Effects Of Negotiation With Your Children
Do you find yourself negotiating with your little one often to get most of his routine things done properly? Beware of the ill effects of negotiating with your children before things take a turn for the worse!
Most times, negotiating can help you get things done in the correct manner from your kids, but negotiating too often with your little one can cause this 'win-win situation' to backfire on you and your child unexpectedly. If you are wondering what can be the negative consequences of negotiating with your kids, read on to find out its prominent ill effects on your kids.
1. Favours Become Habit
Often, while negotiating with your child, you may offer him his favorite toy, food, or any other thing as a favor to listen to you. Negotiating too often with your kid with favors can become a habit such that he would refuse to listen to you unless you offer him his desired object or food. If getting favors becomes a habit, you will find your child turning adamant eventually.
2. Kids Take You For Granted
Negotiation is a two-way situation where your child listens to you and follow your instructions if you agree with one of his ideas but negotiating often with your kid will eventually result in your child taking you for granted. He will start thinking that if he simply refuses to listen to you then you would pacify him and agree with his opinion.
3. Increased Expectations
The more you negotiate with your child, the more your child expects from you. So, negotiating with your kid can become damaging by making him expect more from you every time you ask him to do something. Additionally, there prevails a chance that your kid’s expectations can turn into demands and that can make your kid turn stubborn.
4. Lack of Understanding
Negotiation with kids promotes conditional approach, where your child agrees to listen to you only on a condition where you agree with one of this demands. Instead of understanding how beneficial it is to listen and follow your instructions, your kid prefers to act as you wish simply because you have agreed to one of his conditions. Thus, when you negotiate with a condition, your child never understands how your instructions are important and beneficial for him, ultimately leading to a lack of understanding in your kid.
5. Child Lacks Life Skills and Progress
Life skill is any skill which your child needs in order to live his day-to-day life efficiently. It’s far more crucial than academic skills. Negotiating with your kid often hampers his ability to develop essential life skills, as your child would look forward to listening to you only when you agree with one of his choices. Read more
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When babies are 6 months old, it is the perfect time to introduce them with some semi solids or we can say in form of puree. Babies are familiar to mother milk so for most of the babies, it is a difficult task for mommies to get them used to apart from breast milk. No need to worry mommies. One thing to take care is to introduce one food item at a time. Do not mix with any other food item. Suji kheer is the perfect option to start with. Because mostly, babies like suji kheer very much. And also suji is easily digestive. Take an utmost care to roast suji in a proper way. Give your baby 3-4 days so that he or she can be comfortable with suji kheer. If your baby is eating well and his motions are normal. Then introduce them with another food item. This time you can go with some fruit. Like apple is a good one to start with fruits. Do not bother if your baby is not liking any food. It is normal as it's their choice what they want to eat. Do not force them to eat. And most important give them in a low quantity. Because if food is not digesting then they can face constipation problem too. Within a month, you can try new items to their diet. Sometimes baby can cry, maybe they do not like food or else they are just showing tantrums. Babies enjoy their foods with doing some activities simultaneously. This can keep them busy and meanwhile they complete their food also. When their tummy is full, they can play energetically. Choose foods according to their baby's choice. Do not follow blindly to others. Keep in mind, every baby is different. Every baby has their own taste. Read more
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Trying To Conceive
10 hours ago
Q. hi have one question
LT 10x18mm and RT 18x20mm and ET 6.5
what it mean??? and should I start intercourse
Dr Laxmi Chavan-Sawant
Ayurvedic Gynaecologist
9 hours ago
A. since you are right follicle is 18 mm yes of course you can start with your intercourse for conception as in 1 to 2 days
their maybe rupture of the follicle by which your sperm should be present there for conception
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Q. #asktheexpert
why baby vomit
Dr Ghouse
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A. for babies less than 6 months may not be a problem. small babies will be having lot of gas because of various reasons it is advisable to do burping of the baby immediately after feeding please give colimex DF drops to the baby they are safe
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Q. i am 35 weeks 3 days pregnant... my ultrasound report shows that "fl and hl are shorter compared to bpd"... is this anything to worry
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A. You should have proper consultation with your treating doctor , as some examination or investigations may be needful, so that proper medications can be given And the treatment can be done very properly.
needs proper follow-up for this
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A. use nasal drops , that acts faster .
You should have proper consultation with your treating doctor , as some examination or investigations may be needful, so that proper medications can be given And the treatment can be done very properly.
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Q. hi,
my LT 10x18mm and RT 18x20mm and ET 6.5 , what if I intercourse after 2 days, can I do intercourse in ovulation day can become a pregent .
on ovulation day if we intercourse can become a pregent..pls advice..
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A. since the follicle size is 18 to 20 mm your ovulation may occur within 24 hours also so if you have intercourse with in that time it will be more effective to get conceived
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A. Hello dear! If your pregnancy is going on fine without any high risk factors then it’s okay. Still, would advise you to check with your doctor once before going further. Maintain a good personal hygiene routine and a healthy lifestyle
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