In this series of 100 messages for children (which happens to be the last in this series ) we will be considering: WATER SANITATION AND HYGIENE. Please read, learn and share. If you are new to the series, please check the blog for other messages – There are 100 messages in all; 10 points on…
Hello Everyone and Welcome to Ask The Paediatricians’ Blog where the Mom-Paediatrician offers health education, information and professional evidence-based advice to mums, parents and all carers of our lovely children!!! We are still on the series of 100 messages for children to learn and share as developed by Children for Health. If you are just…
Welcome as we continue in the series – 100 messages for children to learn and share originally developed by Clare Hanbury of Children For health Organization. The messages were developed to serve as health education tools for children to learn and share with members of their community on key priority health issues. Additionally, I find…
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…
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…
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…
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…
