Hello everyone and welcome. We continue the series on 100 messages for children to learn and share by focusing on another priority area – Nutrition. Of course, we parents need to learn them first before we can teach our children and encourage them to also share with others – kids and adults. Here are 10…
Ask the Paediatricians AGE GROUP HELP ME PAED!!! MY BABY IS NOT CHUBBY!!! Hello there! This is a short memo on one of the recurring decimal issues the Paediatricians deal with daily in our interactions with parents especially the mums!! This is the issue of unnecessary worry or agitation by mums because their babies are “not gaining…
Ask the Paediatricians AGE GROUP LET US FIGHT PNEUMONIA AND SAVE OUR CHILDREN
Welcome to all Mums and Blog visitors! Here is the next priority condition in the series 100 messages for children to learn and share! Should you be visiting the blog for the first time, we’ve started the series 100 messages for children and we started by educating our children on Malaria. Today, we will continue…
Hello Mums and Blog visitors! Though our blog is primarily dedicated to health educating and answering healthcare questions by Mums, we have found that health education must be started early with the children! Yes, we need to catch them young! Children can learn a lot about health and also be great instruments in disseminating health…
Teething!!! Again!!! Yes!!! Mums never cease, on a daily basis, to ask the pediatricians questions about teething! Out of all the developmental milestones in children, this is the one that often worries mums needlessly. What Kind of Help do I Need? Teething also gets blamed for virtually everything! Though the issues of teething and some…
Hello everyone and thanks for visiting the Ask the Paediatricians Blog where we address common health issues and concerns by Mums. One of the most frequent questions Mums often ask us Paediatricians is the issue of resistance to toothbrushing by children especially the toddlers. According to most mums, many toddlers are not very interested in…
In recent times on the facebook group ASK THE PAEDIATRICIANS and in the mailbox of Ask the Paediatricians, I have had course to address a very important rampant but dangerous practice by mothers. It is really a source of concern This post is short and straight to this point to address this phenomenon. It is…
The 7th October is World Cerebral Palsy Day. This is a day set aside to create awareness and support for the 17 million people worldwide who live with cerebral palsy. There is need for more people to be aware of this life-long and life-altering condition. As a Paediatrician who is also a subspecialist in care…
If you are not from Nigeria, you may be lost from the title alone. The typical Naija Mum knows what I am talking about, especially if you are from the South-Western part of the country, specifically the Yoruba tribe. The other tribes have their own names for the same condition. A mum told me it…
