Welcome to Ask the Paediatrician’s Blog and the focus today is Dental Caries in children. Many parents are worried about tooth decay even in young children. On the Ask the Paediatricians’ Facebook Group Parents’ Grand Round recently, a Paediatric Dental Surgeon of the Department of Child Dental Health, Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Dr Bukky Olatosi…
Searching for the right day care center for your child can be not so interesting. Getting a daycare centre that will keep your baby healthy is an even tougher one. Unfortunately, with the return to day care inevitably comes the spread of germs that can cause an array of health issues, such as ear infections,…
Ask the Paediatricians Child Health Welcome to 2017! It’s not too late to welcome us into 2017, considering this is our first post (on the blog) this year.. Special thank to everyone, Our volunteers:Outreaches Volunteers(Medical and Non-medical team), Outreaches Sponsors, Facebook Moderators, ATP Professionals, Readers and everyone. Thank you for all the successes we achieved in 2016…
CHRONIC ILLNESS Reducing Malaria infections and Malaria Deaths in Children It was the World Malaria Day recently on the 25th April 2016. The theme for this year was on ending Malaria for good! What a lofty but achievable dream. On the Ask The Paediatricians Facebook Group we had a Group Discussion on Malaria anchored by Dr…
The issue of body changes and maturity in children has always been a source of concern to many parents. As always, they often bring up such issues with their Paediatricians. Today’s Post is borne out of the need to address this important topic and to allay some unnecessary parental fears. What is Puberty? Puberty is a…
Welcome to the Blog Mums and visitors. Today’s discussion is about the most common cause of accidental poisoning among children in the developing countries like Nigeria. I will start by defining the two KEYWORDS: KEROSENE and POISONING Kerosene – we all know now very well is an hydrocarbon fuel…also called paraffin in some places. It is commonly…
What is circumcision? How do I handle the circumcised penis in the newborn? When should I even do the circumcision? These are some of the questions that often create anxiety for first time mums of male newborns especially in this part of the world where circumcision is the rule rather than the exception. As usual,…
Ask the Paediatricians 100 MESSAGES 100 MESSAGES FOR CHILDREN TO LEARN AND SHARE – WATER SANITATION AND HYGIENE 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…
Hello! We are gradually coming to the end of the series of 100 messages for children to learn and share. The priority for today is ACCIDENTS and how we can prevent them. Here are 10 messages on Accidents and its prevention at our homes, schools and in the community generally. ⦁ Cooking areas are dangerous…
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…
