Becoming a parent by blending families or marrying someone with kids can be a rewarding and fulfilling experience. If you’ve never had kids, you’ll get the opportunity to share your life with a younger person and help to shape his or her character. If you have kids, you’ll offer them more opportunities to build relationships… Continue reading
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Interesting research for nutrition of children and conection with its health
No work is known in the literature to date which provides a long-term and generalised evaluation of the health of children fed intravenously in their own home. There have been, for example, articles that have made mention of a concrete case of a child who had received such treatment and had suffered a pulmonary thromboembolism… Continue reading
Allergies in infants – milk allergy
About Milk Allergy Almost all infants are fussy at times. But some are excessively fussy because they have an allergy to the protein in cow’s milk, which is the basis for most commercial baby formulas. A person of any age can have a milk allergy, but it’s more common among infants (about 2% to 3%… Continue reading
Choose safier toys for your child
Millions of toys are out there, and hundreds of new ones hit the stores each year. Toys are supposed to be fun and are an important part of any child’s development. But each year, scores of kids are treated in hospital emergency departments for toy-related injuries. Choking is a particular risk for kids ages 3… Continue reading
Vitamins taken by most children are not neccessery
A new study reports that most of the healthy children and teenagers in the United States who take daily vitamin and mineral supplements probably don’t need them, while the kids who would benefit from supplements are least likely to get them. Most kids taking daily vitamin supplements already receive adequate nutrition from the foods they… Continue reading
Overweight children in risk of Cardiovascular problems later in their lifes
Kids with untreated obesity are at increased risk for developing cardiovascular disease later, according to a new study. The report says that even without other cardiovascular risk factors, obesity is linked to blood abnormalities that can predispose obese kids to heart diseases in early adulthood. Researchers from the Nemours Children’s Clinic in Jacksonville, FL, whose… Continue reading
New in childhood vaccines
H1N1 swine flu shots, a meningitis booster, and a genital warts vaccine for boys are the big changes to the 2010 childhood vaccination schedule. The changes were recommended by a CDC advisory panel last October. Now approval of the changes by the American Academy of Pediatrics makes the new guidelines official. The biggest change is the… Continue reading
Some new insights into allergies in children
Allergies and asthma are a continuing health problem in most developed countries, but just how do these ailments develop over the course of a childhood? In a population-based study designed to help answer this question, researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) found that 40 per cent or two of five —… Continue reading