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How To : The Right Way to Store Expressed Breast Milk

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If you’re a busy breastfeeding mom, you should consider storing and then bottle-feeding your expressed breast milk to your kid to avoid hassles. Here are some tips on how you can safely store the milk and keep your baby healthy…

– Before expressing or handling breast milk, wash your hands throughly with soap and water.

– Store freshly expressed milk in a clean, capped glass or hard plastic container. There are also special plastic bags designed for milk collection and storage. If you are using plastic bags, them in a hard plastic food storage container with a tightly sealed lid. Continue reading

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Health and Wellness: Blood in my Kid’s Eye – What should I do?

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It’s a bit horrifying to see that there is blood in the eye of your little one – if you are not very familiar with Subconjuctival hemorrhage. Even the term itself sounds scary, right? However, most cases of ‘bleeding in the eye‘ are usually not a cause for concern.

A few days ago, my daughter Ysha had blood in her left eye because she accidentally poked it with a toy (good thing it wasn’t sharp). Now, this subconjunctival hemorrhage (or blood in the eye) happens when small blood vessels in the whites of the eyes break and cause a red spot or speck. This can be because of a sudden increase in blood pressure due to sneezing, coughing, vomiting, straining, or even laughing so hard. Continue reading

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Health and Wellness : Kids – When to Worry About a Bump on the Head

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Most of the time, a bump on the head isn’t something we should be too worried about. Kids fall and get into all sorts of accidents and injuries almost all the time. However, it is also important to remember that a blow to the head may be serious enough to cause internal injuries in or around the brain.

A bump on the head can cause an external or an internal injury – or both. Remember that an external injury, like cuts on the scalp or the skin on the forehead, is usually more frightening to look at, BUT it is less threatening than an internal head injury which may result in bleeding or bruising of the brain. Continue reading

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Health and Wellness : Home Remedy and Prevention for Ear Ache – Swimmer’s Ear

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Is your kid complaining of a severe ear ache just after going swimming, taking a bath, or playing under the rain? If yes, there’s a big chance he/she has swimmer’s ear.

Swimmer’s ear is not just for swimmers. One gets it when water gets stuck in the ear canal after swimming or bathing. Among the most common signs and symptoms of swimmer’s ear are as follows: Continue reading

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Health and Wellness : Fever is NOT really a big concern UNLESS…

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Most parents worry a lot and lose sleep whenever their kid has a fever. A lot of moms like me have fever phobia because we have tons of misconceptions about fever. I’ve done a bit of research and I’ve read that fevers are generally harmless. It is technically just your body’s way of telling you that something out of the usual is happening in your body and it is trying to fight off that unusual ‘situation’, which is probably some sort of infection. Having a fever is part of our body’s normal response when it is fighting off an infection.

It isn’t true that all fevers have to be treated with fever medicine right away. Health professionals generally recommend fever treatment only if it causes discomfort – and that usually happens when it goes above 39° C or 102° F. We should also take note of the fact that fevers may or may not keep going higher with or without treatment – it all depends on the kind of illness which causes your fever plus your body’s immune system. In the case of viral infections (which is a common cause of fever), taking fever medication will temporarily break a fever streak but when the effect of the medicine wears off, the fever will return and it won’t completely go away until the body overpowers the virus which caused the infection.

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