Health Tip: If Your Child Goes to the Hospital
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(HealthDay News) - It can be a frightening experience for anyone to go to the hospital, particularly for a young child.
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(HealthDay News) -- Young children can turn a typical home into a house full of  potential safety hazards.
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Bernadette Upton gives mothers-to-be a wakeup call with one sentence. "Typically," she says, "we bring baby home to the sickest room in the house." The nursery is "sick" because we think more about how the room will look than what it will do to our babies' health.
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By Paul Davis; Journal Staff Writer  If your child has an eating disorder, where do you go for help?   In the past, South County parents grappling with behavioral issues had to poke through the Yellow Pages, call doctors for references or rely on friends for names.
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When you take your bundle of joy home from the hospital, it's inevitable you won't do everything right. We asked pediatricians for the five most common mistakes parents make with their newborns.
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(HealthDay News) - If your child has an ear infection, it's important to take the child to a doctor for proper diagnosis and treatment. The pediatrician will determine if the infection is bacterial or viral.
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WEDNESDAY, Oct. 4 (HealthDay News) -- In the two years before and after they're diagnosed with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), children with the condition typically use more health-care services than other children, U.S. research shows.
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When patients with heart disease are brought to a hospital, why not identify suggest a screening for their family as well?
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You think you've got this being-a-patient thing down pat: You put on your paper gown (opening in the back), flip through a dog-eared People magazine, have your blood pressure taken, see the doctor for five minutes, answer his or her questions, pay your co-pay and get back to work.
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NEW YORK  - Kids who need their tonsils  removed can be in and out of the hospital on the same day, in  many cases, Spanish doctors report.
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When Krystina Brugh fell ill in January, her parents thought it was the stomach flu. They fed her crackers and her favorite sandwich, peanut butter and marshmallow fluff, to give her strength. She didn't get better. Soon, the 11-year-old couldn't even keep down water, and her kidneys started to fail.
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FRIDAY, Dec. 10 (HealthDayNews) -- Your waistline isn't the only one you need to keep an eye on this holiday season -- you also need to make sure your children don't overindulge.
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If you wait up to two minutes before cutting the umbilical cord during a premature birth you may be helping reduce the risk of bleeding in the brain of the newborn baby, say scientists.
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Picture a parent anxiously checking a sick child's thermometer or hauling the kids to the doctor's office and the image that usually comes to mind is of mom.
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Children who are treated at home for severe pneumonia do just as well as youngsters admitted to hospital, a finding that could be a boon for health care and medical costs in poor countries.
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NEW YORK  - If a child swallows a magnet it  might pass without incident, but if two or more magnets go  down, urgent surgery should be considered, according to Dr.  Alan E. Oestreich.
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(HealthDayNews) -- If dry, itchy skin is making your child miserable, try these tips from the Mayo Clinic:   Shorten their showers and baths. A long, hot shower or bath dries and irritates skin. Your child should stay no more than 15 minutes in the bath or shower, and keep the water temperature lukewarm. Avoid scrubbing too hard or too long with a washcloth or sponge. Light sponging can be just as good as forceful scrubbing, and it's less drying. The same is true for toweling off -- pat your child dry instead of rubbing. After a bath or shower, apply a moisturizer from head to toe. ...