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Tag Archives: cough
When Should I Keep my Baby or Child Home?
Babies and kids can get sick up to a dozen times a year as they build their immunity to common childhood diseases. Each infection can last up to two weeks, so parents often wonder when to keep their child home … Continue reading
Posted in 101, Babies!, Children, DIY, Health Care, Medicine, Wellness
Tagged Bananas, colds, common childhood diseases, conjunctivitis, cough, diarrhea, fever, pink eye, strep throat, vomiting
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How Do I Protect my Baby and Child from Measles?
Babies have some protective antibodies that cross the placenta from their mother if she was immunized or had measles. These antibodies wear off over time and can’t always be depended upon. A person with measles can be contagious 4 days … Continue reading
Posted in 101, Babies!, Children, Health Care, Medicine, Pediatric Bits, Simply Safe, Wellness
Tagged cough, Disneyland measles epidemic, herd immunity, immunize, learn, measles, measles vaccine, medicine, pictures, rash, vaccination, vaccine
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Humidifier
Humidifier or Vaporizer? Humidifier, hands-down. A cool mist humidifier is what you want to sooth irritated airways. Vaporizers heat water into steam and they can burn or scald children who are naturally curious and active. It’s unclear whether adding anything … Continue reading
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Tagged babies, baby, children, cold, colds, common cold, cool mist humidifier, cough, cough and cold season, health, home care, humidifier, learn, medicine, safety, water
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Reading the Box: Tiny Cold Tablets
These tablets are made from lactose and acacia gum to which has been added diluted components that cause sneezing, headache, runny nose and eyes. Homeopathy works on the belief that “like cures like,” and that if you dilute something that causes … Continue reading
Posted in 101, Babies!, Children, Health Care, Medicine, Pediatric Bits
Tagged babies, baby, children, cold, cough, home care, homeopathy, humidifier, placebo, runny nose
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Home Remedies for Colds from Around the World
During the cough and cold season, I always remember this article from Pediatrics in Review about Home Remedies for Colds from Around the World. Home care is what doctors recommend when the body needs a tincture of time to heal itself. Teas … Continue reading
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Tagged baby, children, coconut, cold, colds, cough, cough and cold season, health, home care, home remedies, home remedy, learn, massage, soup, tea
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Reading the Box: Product Information
In 2008, the Food and Drug Administration made sweeping changes to the children’s cold and cough medicine aisle. Cough and cold medicines are not effective in children and can be unsafe. Products for children under 2 years of age were … Continue reading
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Tagged cold, cough, cough medicine, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, health, home care, over the counter medicine, supplements
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Why Doesn’t Cough Medicine Work?
This video explains why cough medicines don’t work. It explains mucociliary clearance, which is like the mini Rumba that cleans your lungs. Cilia are the tiny hair-like projections that line the lungs and airways. They beat together in waves to … Continue reading
Posted in 101, Babies!, Children, DIY, Health Care, Medicine, Pediatric Bits, Teens, Wellness
Tagged 101, air pollution, children, cold, cough, cough medicines, cough suppressants, learn, medicine, mucociliary clearance, mucus, vaccination
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Asthma Equipment and Supplies
The equipment and supplies that parents need to take care of their child’s wheezing or asthma are simple to use. Getting them shouldn’t be complicated, but with health insurance contracts, it can be. A nebulizer is a device that aerosolizes medication. … Continue reading
Posted in Children, Health Care, Medicine, Pediatric Bits
Tagged asthma, cough, DME, Durable Medical Equipment, nebulizer, Nebulizers, spacer, wheezing
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Influenza 2014
People use the word “flu” as short-hand for any number of respiratory or intestinal infections, but for doctors “flu” is influenza. And when it comes to respiratory infections, it’s the big one. Influenza has arrived in Northern California. The infection … Continue reading
Posted in 101, Babies!, Children, Health Care, Medicine, Pediatric Bits
Tagged babies, CDC, children, cold, cough, fever, flu, health, home care, influenza, learn, medicine, respiratory infections
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A Honey of a Safe and Effective Cough Medicine for Children
First things first: cough is good. If you didn’t cough, you couldn’t keep your lungs clean and tidy. Your lungs are lined with cells that secrete mucus to trap the things that float in the air like viruses, bacteria, and … Continue reading
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Tagged babies, baby, children, cold, cough, cough medicines, cough suppressant, health, honey, learn
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