Child Health

If your child has difficulties saying certain sounds or letters or pronounces some sounds incorrectly, Speech Buddies may help overcome these problems.

Every parent knows how difficult is to make your child eat those veggies and beat the junk food addiction. In many cases, actions are much better than words, especially when you use a hi-tech way to persuade your child into eating healthier.

Count your peas is an iPad application developed by Design Seedling that is aimed at making healthy eating fun for children. This app uses interactive games and lots of useful information that help kids organize their eating better. The Count your peas app features a calculator to count servings, based on the Food Pyramid groups. Parents together with their children can view how much calories their food contains and how much they actually need to eat. They can find out the key recommendations on each food group to become nutritionally smarter.

There is also a variety of fun games and tools that makes the learning more entertaining, including the tic tac toe game with whole grain cereals or completing a dried bean mosaics.

Nowadays children are not as active as they were just decades ago and many parents need to motivate their kids into doing physical exercises.

The company Switch2Health offers an easy and fun way to make your kids more active. Its innovative S2H REPLAY health gadget was designed for teens and younger children to track their activity and reward them for exercising.

If you have children, you probably know how often you need to take a child's temperature and how challenging it may be. Thanks to the release of new non-contact thermometers, this task becomes so much easier for parents.

A study published in German magazine for doctors showed that television and DVD designed for children do more harm than good to the development of child's brain. Babies who watch television cannot process all the changing images and sounds they see and hear, Professor Manfred Spitzer of Ulm said.

New parents, who are worried about their baby, may soon be able to use specially designed clothing that tells about such vital signs as heartbeat, activity level and emotional state.

Children, who use electronic readers, might become more interested in reading and improve their reading abilities, scientists say.

Lotta Larson, a professor at Kansas State University says that e-readers such as Amazon Kindle e-Reader encourage children's reading due to its interactive features.

New moms, who have to spend days and nights with their baby, watching for the minor signs of breathing, can now use a baby monitor with video camera. The Luvion Platinum Digital Video Baby Monitor is designed for all the restless parents, who want to have a peace of mind.

A toddler needs from 1,000 to 4,000 calories per day. The actual amount of calories depends on toddler's age, height and weight and activity level. Keep in mind that small children should eat balanced and varied food to get all the necessary nutrients and calories for proper growth. These calories can be obtained from eating fruits and vegetables, grains, bread, milk and dairy products, meat and fish.

Going through potty training is a challenging task for parents. Protect-A-Bed's range of mattresses and pillow products protect your bed from wetness and stains that are associated with potty training and bedwetting. This helps parents reduce their cleaning time and extend the life of their mattresses and pillows.

The best time to start potty training is when your child is physically and psychologically ready for it. However, even if potty training goes quite successfully, there will be many wetting accidents that parents need to overcome over time. In this case , it is better to use specially designed bed protectors like Potty Training Protection Kit, a waterproof, yet breathable system that creates dry, hygienic, bug-free and anti-allergenic environment for a good night sleep. This system features a patented Miracle Membrane® that protects your mattress from heat, moisture and stains. It also keeps your bed from allergens and dust mites.

If your child wets the bed, you can simply remove the sheet and the protector, and the mattress remains dry and clean. The design of the protector allows you to keep cleaning to a minimum, which is especially helpful, if your child is potty training or has bedwetting problems.

Fever is one of the primary concerns for parents, especially during the colds an flu season. Nowadays there is a wide variety of thermometers available on the market and it is quite difficult to find a right thermometer that will suit your baby or toddler the best. What are the most popular and accurate thermometers to take your baby's temperature?

If you are a parent of toddler, taking temperature can become a tricky task. While mercury thermometers may be quite accurate, they are not always safe to use for toddler, especially for those under 3 year olds.
The digital thermometers do not take so much time to get the results, but you should rely on the batteries to get the accurate results. Modern versions such as pacifier thermometer or forehead thermometer may also become a quick and easy option to take your toddler's temperature. The ear thermometer requires only several seconds to get the result and is a reliable method but may be costly.

s the flu season approaches, more and more parents are concerned about protecting their kids from cold and flu. One of the most important tasks is to avoid spread of germs is by teaching children wash their hands properly. And while many kids tend to skip this daily routine, the Tropical Seas manufacturers decided to make this task more of a fun idea.

The Itzazu Kidz biodegradable hand soaps and sanitizers help your children learn proper hand-washing technique in an amusing way. The colorful hand soaps contain color beads. As child washes his hands, the colorful beads burst and change the color of the suds. This child-friendly approach contributes to longer and more thorough hand-washing.

Men who became fathers at older age produce less intelligent children their younger counterparts, scientists claim.
Previous studies linked father's age to the risk of developing such health conditions as autism, schizophrenia, dyslexia, epilepsy and dwarfism.

Diaper rash can be quite an unpleasant thing for your baby, if you change disposable diapers seldom, but what about more serious complications like UTI(Urinary Tract Infection)? Japanese scientists conducted a study to find if there is a link between the frequency of disposable diapers changing and the occurrence of UTI in babies.

Most parents struggle to take their child's temperature, because children can be worried about the unknown objects inserted inside their bodies. Many children are also too fidgety to keep them in place for some time to take the temperature. This makes the procedure very difficult to perform and decreases the accuracy of the readings.

Many people are aware of the dangers of the UV exposure, which include skin cancer and premature skin ageing. But few people realize that we need to protect our eyes from sun damage just as much as our skin. This is especially important for children, who are more susceptible to UV exposure, because their eyes are not mature enough to filter UV rays.

Making your child follow regular dental care routine can be tricky and require imagination and patience from the parents. Every parent knows how important is to choose a good toothbrush to keep your child interested in tooth-brushing and enjoying the process.

A lot of foods for children include artificial food color and additives (AFCAs). These AFCAs significantly increase hyperactive behaviors in children. The negative effect, brought by the AFCAs, can last till middle childhood.

Didget, the first blood glucose monitoring system for children was released by Bayer Diabetes Care in the US after its successful launch in the UK in 2009. Among the variety of blood glucose monitors available at the market, the Didget is the only one that is intended specifically for child's use.