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Safety Tips
- Keep medicines and cleaning products in containers with safety caps and locked away from children. This will prevent children from being poisoned.
- Always check bath water temperature with your wrist or elbow before putting your baby in to bathe. This will prevent burns to a baby's delicate skin.
- Never, ever, leave your child alone in the bathtub or near any water. This will prevent children from drowning.
- Don't leave your baby alone in a highchair. This will prevent injuries and deaths from the baby climbing out, falling, or sliding.
- Lock household cleaning products, knives, matches, and plastic bags away from children. This will prevent poisonings, bleeding injuries, burns, and suffocation.
Cleanliness tips
While keeping the newborn clean these guidelines can be taken into account:
- There is no need to bathe the baby every day.
- While sponging your baby, always wash his face first, while the water is the cleanest.
- Make sure that the nappy is clean and dry and in case the nappy gets infected, using a little antiseptic powder will help dry it.
- Do not use disinfectants on your baby's skin, because they take away the skin's natural ability to fight infection.
- Always remember to wash the baby's hands after she has come in contact with pets.
- Till the baby is four months old, sterilise everything that goes into your baby's mouth. Try keeping her away from people that are sick.
- After 4 months continue sterilising milk utensils and water bottles.
- Be careful about storage and heating of milk, never leave it at room temperature for too long.
- Good food preparation rules should be followed.
Tips to protect children from environmental threats
- Help children breathe easier.
- Don't smoke or let others smoke in your home or car. Keep your home as clean as possible. Dust, mold, certain household pests, can trigger asthma attacks and allergies.
- Protect children from lead poisoning
- Wash children's hands before they eat and often wash their toys and bottles.
- Wash floors and window sills to protect kids from dust and peeling paint
contaminated with lead - especially in older homes.
- Protect children from carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning
- Keep pesticides and other toxic chemicals away from children
- Put food and trash away in closed containers to keep pests from coming into your home.
- Protect children from too much sun. Have them wear hats, and protective clothing.
- Keep them out of the mid-day sun.
Tips while giving medication to children
- Do not be tempted to start the antibiotics by yourself and always consult your doctor before doing so.
- Many illnesses like simple coughs, colds, mild diarrhoea, skin infections tend to run a self-limiting course of about 3 to 7 days. A great majority of these do not need antibiotics. Adequate rest, fluids, balanced diet and mild painkillers are good enough for your child.
- Avoid giving antibiotics on a full stomach or with milk or antacids. These may hamper the absorption of antibiotics from the stomach. Many antibiotics (ampicillin, amoxycillin, etc.) cause mild side effects such as abdominal discomfort and occasional diarrhoea. These are usually transient, subside gradually on their own and are no reason to discontinue the treatment.
- Inform your doctor before hand if your child or family has a history of drug allergies, eruptions or asthma or G6PD deficiency. This can help your doctor greatly to plan your child's treatment appropriately.
- Watch out for any unexpected or unusual reactions while the child's on the antibiotics. Inform your doctor immediately if the child develops severe itching, swelling of the body or dark urine.
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