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Facing the time of application of the vaccine is not very pleasant, either for small or for moms. Above all, because we can not explain to our children why let someone hold the arm and produces that pain, and at the same time, that we feel impotent in power not avoided it.

However, there is always something we can do to relieve the discomfort mothers of our children. So today we approached some tricks to help your baby overcome the pain by vaccines.

If mom is quiet, the baby will be too:

According to Dr. Neil Schecter, a pediatrician at the Medical School of the University of Pittsburgh, at the time of the application of vaccines in infants, it is very important to the behavior of the parents to alleviate anxiety and pain felt by the baby. If a parent is too anxious, nervous or worried, surely these feelings are transmitted to the child unconsciously. Read the rest of this entry »

Children between one and two years are very prone to accidents and injuries due to the stupidity with which even walk because they want to explore and learn about the world around them.

This makes them suffer various types of wounds in a way almost constant that is a situation for which you have the adequate preparation. Then we give some advice after your child has received a wound with a rusty or dirty object.

The first thing you think of that moment is the vaccine against tetanus, but it depends on the vaccines your child has already received at the time. This vaccine usually is part of those that apply to regular two, four, six and fifteen months, and is in charge of protecting your child against the disease, which is potentially fatal and is caused by bacteria, that enters the body through a wound. Read the rest of this entry »

Vaccination is the best protection against infection arises because it prevent diseases before its happen.

Vaccinations have few side effects as compared: vaccination risks are greatly overestimated because vaccines are compared with the rate of side effects of other drugs and the complications of the disease prevented as a very safe drug.

Even before the last minute of the travel you can still usually organize all recommended vaccinations from travel clinic sf.

The consistent application of some vaccines in recent years has contributed to some diseases that only rarely occur and have lost their fear (e.g., measles, smallpox).

The basic idea of vaccination is resulted from the realization that infectious diseases that can be made by leaving a natural protection. Read the rest of this entry »

Your little one has to undergo blood tests. But the blood test is a worst nightmare for baby, but it must be put to the test. Because of the small size of his veins, the blood may be a bit difficult. Nurses have difficulty locating them.

In addition, they can not use a tourniquet. The bite is often done in places where his veins are easy to find as the back of his hand, foot, elbow or even the skull. Read the rest of this entry »

To vaccinate her child is not an act carried out to render service to society, nor a process for attacking the human body and is a humanitarian act to save a life especially the life of a loved one. But why vaccines are so important for the baby?

Compliance with the vaccination schedule will protect your baby against diseases from 11 to 13 and 25 to 30 seeds for the first 18 years of his life. To vaccinate a child means to procure more security and protection. Read the rest of this entry »

Keep vaccinations up to date is very important for the health of your baby. They protect your baby against dangerous 14 childhood diseases. The baby will need more than one dose for most shots when he turns two years. It is possible that the health professional give several vaccines in one visit. The vaccinations are needed from birth through childhood. Therefore it is important to ensure that your child gets all immunizations up to age 18. Vaccines are usually administered during visits to the doctor or clinic.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that babies receive the following vaccinations (health professionals usually use the initials when talking about these vaccines)

• Hepatitis B (HepB)
• Diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis (DTaP)
• Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib)
• Inactivated polio (IPV)
• Rotavirus (RotaTeq)
• Pneumococcal (PCV)
• Influenza (Flu)
• Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR)
• Varicella (V)
• Hepatitis A (HepA)
• Meningococcal

These are very serious diseases and vaccines to help protect the baby from them. Babies can fall very sick and even die if they develop the diseases that vaccines can prevent.

What You Can Do
Follow your health professional about when your baby should be given the vaccine to your baby.

Risks and Side Effects
The benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks. Once vaccinated children are protected from serious diseases, and threatening their lives. Read the rest of this entry »

It has five beautiful fingers on each hand and each foot. Your baby is perfect! But from time to time to the most perfect baby may have health problems not seen with the naked eye. Before you leave the hospital, will perform some tests and treatments to make sure it is really healthy and to continue to be so.

Apgar Score
After 1 minute of birth and again at 5 minutes, a doctor or nurse will review your baby to control five things: your heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes and skin color. Then assign each one of these things a score of 0 to 2 and add all to get what is known as Apgar score. Babies with an Apgar score of 7 or more are more likely to have come graceful delivery and good health. Those with lower scores may need some additional observation or special care, but most will succeed too.

Vitamin K Injection
Your baby will receive an injection of vitamin K immediately after birth. This will protect you from a serious and rare bleeding that can affect newborns. Newborn babies can not produce vitamin K, necessary for blood clotting, until a few days after birth.

Eye drops
Treated eyes of their baby with medicated drops or ointment. This will protect them from bacterial infections such as chlamydia and gonorrhea, which can be contracted during childbirth. Read the rest of this entry »

Farewell tears and pain caused by vaccination! So baby is protected against disease risk, it must be vaccinated. Injecting a dose of bacteria or virus infectivity attenuated help strengthen its antibody.

But since the tiny is still sensitive, being pierced his skin so soft can make him cry. To address this incident that the U.S. laboratory of Oregon has invented a new way to soften the vaccination of babies.

Thus, the objective is to avoid pain. The researchers used a syringe without a needle, syringe called patch. It quickly injects the vaccine solution through a small hole placed in contact with the skin. Read the rest of this entry »

Farewell to the worries pneumococcal infections. Now our children can be better protected against lung infections (meningitis, pneumonia …). The progress of science has replaced the former Prevenar 13. This new vaccine has not been significantly away from the old, but this time, with broader coverage.

At 57 euros, Prevenar 13 is already available in pharmacies. It is an injectable solution containing portions of 13 different types of the bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae. It is designed to protect children from six weeks to five years. The vaccine can also fight against acute otitis media. Read the rest of this entry »