Children Healthy Care

There are many tricks you can use for your children to try all kinds of food and receive all the necessary nutrients. Learn recipes and dishes very fun presentations that capture your attention and invite them to eat. Learn tricks to hide the food so that your children get used to the taste of new foods.

Recipes ideal for young children:

Although children may not show much interest in the fruit, the fruit salad is usually one of his favorite dishes. What’s the catch? For its variety of colors! A bowl of fruit salad is much more appealing than a piece of whole fruit. Furthermore, by adding orange juice and a little sugar, it becomes much more sweet dessert.

CREAM YOGURT FOR STARTERS
It is a perfect sauce for spreading bread sticks, vegetables, crackers, etc.. Mix yogurt with half a half pint of cream cheese and add spices to taste.

AND FISH SALAD
Pita bread (pan oriental style) can be a great partner for your child to eat salad and fish. Just give it a tap with the toaster and opens with ease to fill in what you want. A filling is possible to cook a tuna steak or salmon and, once cool, mix with shredded lettuce, tomato, etc., and a spoonful of mayonnaise. Children suck their fingers while eating vegetables, fish and carbohydrates.

VEGETABLES
Vegetable sauce:
Pocha in a rich casserole pepper, onion, zucchini, carrots, etc.. When browned, add 4 grated tomatoes. Once everything is cooked, pass through the food mill. This sauce is delicious and rich in vitamins and antioxidants. It is an ideal complement to rice or pasta. The trick is to put lots of sauce on the plate, sauce because the more you drink, you are eating mixed vegetables.

Cauliflower Pie:
Boil the cauliflower into small pieces pártela and pass it in egg and breadcrumbs. Surely your son thinks he is eating croquettes!

Vegetable Sandwich:
Lettuce, tomatoes, shredded carrots … anything goes, provided it is cut into strips and mixed with mayonnaise.

From birth to 14 and 16 years of age all children must be vaccinated to prevent certain diseases and their consequences and complications.
Vaccination is one of the most effective measures for the prevention of disease. Currently, the Ministry of Health of the Comuidad Madrid – Spain has a program that includes 10 diseases: Diphtheria, Tetanus, Pertussis, Haemophilus influenzae type b, Hepatitis B, Meningococcal C, Polio, Measles, Varicella, Pneumococcal, Mumps and Rubella.

When should we vaccinate our baby?
Vaccination should be controlled by the physician or pediatrician. The first vaccination is applied in child health center where the baby is born. They receive their first dose of Hepatitis B. From this date, the vaccinations will be administered at 2 months of age, 4 months, 6 months, 15 months, 18 months, 4 years, 11 years and 14 years.

How long does vaccine protection?
Most have one or more doses to protect life. Others, like tetanus and diphtheria booster dose needed to restore adequate protection.

What kind of reaction produce vaccines?
Like any medication can sometimes cause a reaction. The most common type is local. As pain and redness at the injection site. In some cases you may see a slight fever, usually mild.

Child nutrition: How much water do children need each day? To stay healthy and energetic, the body of his son needs a lot of healthy liquids each day. Water is a perfect choice because it moisturizes without adding unnecessary calories.

Our bodies use water to regulate temperature, remove waste, and dampen our spine and joints. Milk and juice are the benefits, too, as a source of fluids and essential nutrients like calcium and vitamin C .

How much fluid do children need?

You’ve probably heard the oft-repeated advice that you should drink 8 glasses of water every day. But the same rule does not apply to children

Children need a little less water than adults, but still running the day to consume water, juice, milk every time you feel thirsty. Of course, if they are playing or doing strenuous exercise, or too hot will need more fluids to compensate for what their bodies are lost in perspiration.

Milk : Make it low fat or fat-free (for children 2 and up, smaller ones need fat for brain development). Serve two cups a day for children under 8 years, three cups for older children and adolescents. Children need calcium and vitamin D in dairy products, so if your child does not like milk, try flavoring, or find other sources of these nutrients.

Juice: fruit juice must be 100%, no mixed drinks, soda or juice 100% fruit counts as one of the fruit servings your child needs daily.

Sports drinks: In general, avoid these drinks , as added sugar and calories but few nutrients in the diet of your child.

Separation anxiety (Article)

Separation anxiety which straddles the children after a divorce is alarming. It is very typical of a separation occurring after changes in the behavior of the adults involved, as both will have to adjust to a new lifestyle in the absence of the partner (a). Regardless of the reason for the divorce, changes occur that cause anxiety in people and could cause problems if not handled themselves well. It is typical that some adults have symptoms of major depression or anxiety and this worsens the mental health of adults, which is reflected in difficulty in maintaining control when disciplining children.
In the case of minors, the situation may be more difficult, since children have a hard time understanding why the divorce and parents need to go to live separately. Find it difficult because they do not know how to express their fears and concerns, even, they may feel guilty.

Children also played adapt to changes and not having the emotional maturity of an adult may show behavioral problems. The situation could get worse if parents can not handle the situation, especially among parents who speak ill of it was his spouse. Most children also become depressed or suffering from a mental condition known as separation anxiety.
It is important to note that not all children or adolescents are affected the same way before the divorce of their parents. This depends on many factors, to consider whether they were very attached or not the parent who left home, emotional maturity and if the environment before the divorce was a violent.

The rule is that there are changes in behavior, as is showing your daughter. Some might be affected in academics. If this is added to a parent or both are not well emotionally after their separation, the situation is complicated.
There are various professionals can help. If your child (a) presented problems of discipline and learning from small (a), occur long before the divorce or marital instability, neurological assessment and recommendations could help. On the other hand, is a psychologist who can help change that behavior through therapy.

It is very important to establish that parents can help a lot in this. Some of the things we could do is agree on how to discipline your child (a), never speak ill of your ex-spouse, demonstrations of affection and maintain an environment of trust and dialogue with your child (a).

A professional help or to the same psychologist (a) who attends to your child (a), if you decide to take (a), could guide both parents to handle the situation healthy. Good mental health of both parents and good communication can make a difference to facilitate the process of adaptation of your child (a). Remember that the parents divorce each other, but not for children.

Anxiety is a mental disorder and a problem of health that can negatively affect people of all ages, including children.

This is surprising, many people think that children have nothing to worry about. But in reality, the disorders of anxiety are the most common mental health disorder in children, affecting as many as ten per cent of young people.

To reach it, no matter how disabling or mental disorder may be in an adult, is a thousand times worse when it comes to a child who suffers from the same. Just as seriously disturbed individual to a normal lifestyle, anxiety disorder in children may also adversely affect their development capacity. This can have very serious repercussions on the rest of the child’s life.

This is why it is so important to successfully treat all cases of anxiety disorder in children as soon as possible. If you have no success in treating your child may be at risk in the future. (more…)

Some experts claim that the number of myopic increases in population in recent times. The statistic has grown, partly because the affected people come over to the ophthalmologist. But also because some current habits favoring the development of this problem. Most people live in cities, moves indoors and not used for distance vision. In addition, there is a predominance of craft and intellectual tasks that require set too in sight.

The myopic looks bad from a distance and up close. The condition of refraction occurs because the anteroposterior diameter of the eye is longer and the image does not focus on the retina, but in front of it. Some children are born with this disorder, but can also occur in the critical moments in the evolution of vision, such as two and a half and four, or at any other time of the child’s infancy. (more…)

The viral infections are very common in children. It is estimated that a normal little boy between the first and second year of life can have between six and eight infections, especially respiratory. This is because children do not experience immune and defense system does not know the viral agents that attack it. Children are infected and, thus, they acquire immunity.

Parents should not be alarmed by this situation, must know that the disease run its course. Usually, these infections do not respond to treatment with antibiotics because they are directed to diseases caused by bacteria. Faced with a flu, a cold or bronchitis, you need to pay attention to the occurrence of any respiratory difficulty, and in that case, go to the doctor.

Never medicate a child without the consent of the doctor , often leads to complications may be greater than those that caused the intake of medication, and there is no danger that the query is for something insignificant, we must trust the doctor and have mind that it exists, to reassure the mothers and heal the children.

Crowns on anterior teeth (preformed acetate and filled with composite): This issue is about developing a clinical case (not finished), a patient 5 years of age who received two acetate crown forms filled with dental composite (resin composite , white filling).

Today arrived in my box in the Student Dental Clinic (Dental JUNAEB Peralillo Module), a 5 year old boy with his finger in his mouth. Every time I talked covering his teeth.

When you view the tab and consideration I realized the reason why hide his smile, had a great destruction in the earlier pieces. My number one suspect is a bottle (we say here in Chile bottle), which helped the poor or no sanitation and a complicit mother, cause the damage seen in the photo.

I asked what teeth pacientito least favorite, and pointed to their central (central incisors). The dental damage is widespread, but let me indicate where to begin restorative therapy.

Among the bells and whistles that asked the Administration module are preformed crowns acetate (TDV Brazil), and only came as an adult, adapted them to the remains of the child has teeth, and the photo can see the result immediately (100% free thanks to the Municipal Dental Health).

The patient was shocked, especially his mother, with whom I have many conversations ahead to intervene in the environment, and create a favorable social environment for oral health, but this is the first step, impact, front teeth crowns acetate composite.

The teeth are very important for social relations, especially those children brought by constantly changing and growing, much remains to at least address other anterior teeth (lateral incisor), but Geison you can start to smile and get used to it.

Rescued a commentary on the people in the waiting room “I did not think much could be done here” is not really much for me, but it was for many, and perhaps that’s what you should look for any service delivery, impact , happiness, satisfaction .

Good nutrition has a direct impact on the health of our children and is a prerequisite for adequate school performance. Breakfast and a nutritious lunch in school children will perform at their best and achieve success.

Many children feel tired and listless at school and homework time, because they do not have the nutrients needed to perform all their activities.
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Today we know from scientific studies that breast milk is the best food you can have a baby. It is normal for new mothers wonder if they have enough milk, or if your milk is so healthy for your child as they say, or many other factors that cause the anxiety which is not healthy for her or the new little person to be fed.

Breast milk is the best option for many reasons, among them we can mention its nutritional and immunological properties which protect children from illness and allergies are very sensitive at early ages. In addition, breastfeeding is a great benefit to the same mother both emotional or psychological level as in the physiological as it reduces the chances of developing breast cancer or ovarian cancer, reduces bleeding, prevents osteoporosis and even combat postpartum depression.
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