Common Illness/Sickness and Initial treatment

Common illness/sickness and initial treatment
Common illness/sickness and initial treatment

Common illness/sickness and initial treatment

We experienced our parents’ care when we were sick as children, but the job of caring for our own sick children seems awesome. As parents we act as paramedics, comforters, and companions to our sick children. Until your children can tell you what’s bothering them, these roles can be especially difficult. Many of the tips related to the Doctor Visits, are apply to the care of toddlers and preschoolers as well as infants.

List of Common illness/sickness and initial treatment.

Taking Temperature

Digital Thermometer have made this job much faster and easier for parents. Glass thermometers are no longer recommended because of the risk of mercury poisoning if the glass breaks. The rectal temperature is the most accurate. it will be one degree higher than an oral temperature.


Other methods will give you a ”approx” temperature if you simply want an indication as to whether your child is suffering from fever. One is to kiss your child’s forehead. (The temperature of your lips is more stable than that of your hands). Other options include axillary (armpit) thermometers, the ears thermometer (not recommended in children under three months), and the forehead strip. It’s important to tell your doctor which method you used when you report a temperature.

  • Make insertion of a rectal thermometer easier by smearing petroleum jelly on it.
  • Give your child an egg timer to watch while the temperature is being taken. Or let your child watch TV or listen to a song, or sing one together to shorten the wait.
  • Don’t take your child’s temperature immediately after bath; this can affect the temperature reading.

Giving Medication

One of the hardest things about giving medicine to babies and small children is getting it all down. Don’t try putting it in a bottle of formula or juice, you won’t know how much your baby has received if all the liquid isn’t taken.

  • Give your baby liquid medicine in a nipple. (Make sure all the medication appropriate to take by filling the nipple with a little water for your child to suck). Or use an eyedropper, vitamin dropper, or medicine syringe (without the needle), which you can buy at the drugstore. Squirting into the cheek area (not down the throat) is easy,, there’s no mess, and 5 milliliters (ml) equal one teaspoon.
  • Give bad-tasting medicine by holding your child’ nose until the medicine is swallowed. Then give some gum or a drink while counting to hold your child’s nose.
  • Many of today’s good- tasting medicines can be frozen as popsicles, but check with your doctor first!.
  • Ask your physician for the more concentrated medicine. Many antibiotics come in two strengths : 125 milligrams [mg] per 5 ml [or the teaspoon ], and 250 mg per 5 ml .If the dose is 250 mg. You only have to get your child to swallow half a teaspoon of the more concentrated medicine instead of a whole teaspoon of the lees concentrated type.
  • Chilling liquid medicines can improve the flavor.
  • Call medicine “the slime” or some other humorous name. Most medicine these days are quite tasty, which actually causes safety problems because a child may wish to take major when you’re not around
  • Use a hollow, graduated medicine spoon for giving medicine to older children. Check your drugstore or talk to your pharmacist.
  • Hold a paper cup under your Child’s chin when giving liquid medicine. Spills can be mixed with water or fruit juice and drunk from a cup.
  • Taste your medicine yourself, and tell your child if it tastes bad. If it does, rub an ice cube over your child’s tongue to numb the taste
  • Wrap a small child in a bath towel to limit physical residence.
  • If your child absolutely refuses medicine by clamping his jaws shut, gently squeeze his nostrils shut. His mouth will open quickly.
  • An older child may enjoy watching the procedure in a mirror.

Pills skills and drills

  • Butter a pill lightly or coat it with salad oil to help it go down easily. Or bury it in a spoonful of applesauce.
  • Let an older child hold a marshmallow to eat after the medicine is taken.
  • Place a pill in a teaspoonful of ice cream or whipped cream, and it will slide down.
  • Press a pill between two spoons to crush it, then mix it with applesauce and jam. Serve it by spoon with a “chaser” of water or juice.
  • “Give” the pill to your child’s tongue, and have them take two gulps of water or juice in quick succession from a narrow neck bottle. The pill should go down with the second gulp.
  • Ask your pharmacist for an empty, labeled bottle for your child’s medicine. Put you Childs daytime medicine in the bottle and give it to your daycare provider.
  • Note down the time, amount, and medicine given if you have more than one medication to administer to you child, or if you have more than one child taking more than one medicine. Keep the dosage sheet posted on the refrigerator. Memory can fail anyone-and often does.
  • Hang a card on the refrigerator that shows the doses and days. Cross off each date as you go along to ensure that you give the proper number of doses.
  • Let your doctor know if your child has not improved within forty-eight hours of taking medicine.

Diarrhea

As with with constipation mild diarrhea is often treated with dietary changes. Binding food such as bananas, rice, applesauce, and pasta often help. However, diarrhea can be use by a number of serious illnesses or allergies. If your child has loose, watery stools for more than a day, call your doctor. Parents need to be sure about – threat of dehydration is very serious. If your child is listless and lethargic and unable to retain fluids, than may be dehydrated. Other symptoms include low urine output, dry mouth, few tears during crying, sunken eyes, and dry skin. Test for dehydration by pinching a sunk eyes, and dry skin the back of your child may be dehydrated.

  • Encourage an infant with diarrhoea to continue breastfeeding, or offer rehydration fluids such as Pedialyte. Avoid sports drinks and sugary beverages.
  • If your child is in a hard time accepting liquids, try giving them in a tiny glass such as a shot glass.
  • Serve liquids in a fancy adult glass to make drinking more appealing , but avoid lead crystal.
  • Try weird – shaped straws to make drinking more interesting.
  • Give jell- o water. This homemade binder is made by dissolving a three- ounce package of jell-o in a cup of cold tap water.
  • Try water in which rice has been cooked ; it’s a binder, too .
  • Don’t give a commercial binding product to a child under age five or six without consulting your doctor.

Coughs and sore throats

  • Make a cough medicine by mixing lemon juice and honey in equal parts. ( Don’t give honey to babies under one year of age, it may contain botulism spores that can cause infant botulism ).
  • Use a pillow or folded blanket to elevate the head of the mattress to make breathing easier for a child with croup, congestion, or a bad cough. Or place a few books under the bed legs near child’s head.
  • Teach your child to gargle by doing it yourself while singing a song, let your child join in.

Cold and Flu

  • Wash hands frequently to prevent and combat illnesses during the cold-and-flu season.
  • Help prevent colds during the cold-and-flu season by putting all the toothbrushes in the dishwasher every few days.
  • Use an old, soft washcloth or a soft handkerchief to wipe a tender nose. Or use tissues with lotion.
  • Hang a wet towel or sheet near a heat source to increase the humidity in a room and make laboured breathing easier.
  • Coat a sore nose with non-mentholated lip balm or petroleum jelly. Or put a little petroleum jelly on a tissue before wiping your child’s nose.
  • Use an electric coffee maker (with the lid removed) as a steamer or vaporizer if a regular one isn’t available. Make sure to place it whether it can’t be tipped over.
  • Put a feverish child in a lukewarm. tub and let him blow bubbles. When the child gets bored, give him a popsicle. It’s fun, there’s no mess, and the fever comes down.
  • Help relive your child’s congestion by running very hot water in the shower. Sit with your child in the bathroom with the door closed. (Some people recommend cold water shower “steam” for croup.)
  • Teach your children how to blow their nose by having them cost their mouth and pretend to blow out a candle with their nose.

Sickroom Logistics

  • Cover the top blanket on your child’s bed with a sheet that can be changed if food or liquid spelled on it.
  • Pin a paper bag to the side of the mattress for soiled tissues and other scraps.
  • Severe tray meals with a damp washcloth or paper towel under the dishes to prevent them from slipping. The towel can be used to clean the patients hands after eating.
  • Avoid having to run from room to room by keeping medications and other sickroom supplies in a container such as a shoebox, basket, or bread pan
  • Use a lazy Susan for easy access to bedside supplies
  • Anchor a shoe bag between the bed mattress and frame. The pockets (hanging down over the edge) will hold tissue and other small necessities.
  • Use a parent’s old t-shirt as a sick gown for child with chicken pox, poison-ivy, or some other skin problem requiring lotion won’t stain bedding or furniture.
  • Let a sick child lie on an adjustable chaise lounge from your outdoor furniture set. It allows for a variety of positions requiring lotion. The shirt won’t bind, and the location won’t stain bedding or furniture.

Chicken Pox

  • Give bored kids with chicken pox some paintbrushes and calamine lotion, and let them busy in scratching. It will take them a while to do. Calamine lotion covers quickly and dries fast.
  • Quell the itch of chicken pox and other nuisances by using spray starch on the spots. (Make sure it doesn’t contain sizing.)
  • Put a little backing soda or Oatmeal Bath in your Childs tub.

Casts on Arms and Legs

  • Keep a leg or arm cast dry for showering or bathing by covering it with a large plastic bag held in a place with a rubber band or waterproof tape.
  • Clean up a dirty white cast with white shoe polish.
  • Make regular jeans and pants usable over a leg cast by inserting a long in the inseam. When the cast comes off, the zipper can be removed and sewn up.
  • Sprinkle baby powder at the opening of a cast, and blow it in with a hair dryer or vacuum cleaner (with airflow reversed) to relive itching.
  • Lubricate the edges of a cast with petroleum jelly to prevent chafed skin.

Ear Infections

  • Whenever there is an ear ache, soak a cloth in warm water and foment outer area of ear with cloth.
  • Never feed child in lying down position.
  • Drop few droplets of hydrogen peroxide and wait until it comes in contact with ear infection. Do mandatory consult a doctor for this.
  • Heat the salt and put it in a thick cloth and then tie it well. Do verify that it isn’t too hot, and foment outer area of ear. Repeat this process with best possible number of times.
  • Reduce or eliminate your child’s intake of dairy products to help reduce the mucus that contributes to ear infections.
  • Elevate thread of the mattress to help drain fluid.

Cover – 19 (corona virus )

Parenting can be challenging even on a good day, but during these challenging times. It is important that you avoid this situation. Take steps to help yourself, your child and your entire family. Day to day due to mandatory requirement of updated information of COVID-19. Difficult to focus on the activities of Difficult to decide (big or small). Feeling heavy, irritable or anxious. Disturbances in eating and sleeping habits. What can you do to help yourself? Congratulations – you are taking the first step assuming that this is a challenging time of uncertainty and stress to be managed.


So, what can you do as a caregiver? The way you are feeling today. Hope and try to be positive. Take care of yourself as much as possible – with you children and other adults are also living, Share responsibilities, work or rest. Set aside time for yourself, and maintain your routine while you can. Keep your daily schedule and structure as possible. Any spiritual, religious or cultural activities. Keep those you rest One of healthy copulation skills for yourself and your family, list out. Excessive drinking, online gambling, or drugs. Avoid behavior like taking. Remember that negative mapping, may increases your stress levels and lengthen. Which Can make your situation worse in time.


So Friends, we need to take care of self on priority. If we are well and healthy then only, parents can take care of their partner, kids and other relatives. God bless my readers a healthy, wealthy and wise always. The healthy person is the best portrait of human soul.

 

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Author of A2zparenting.com After going through deep study, practical survey and research, we come up with few suggestions and recommendation tips. Initially we scoop few, while raising-up children that worked for me and other mothers. My subsequent blog followed in the same vein: The desire to share what really works for parents. My blogs and articles are with the best childcare tips to help make initial upbringing and other required tips with your children easier and lots more fun. My blog is embedded with all about parenting issues and its resolutions.

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