When it comes to giving your children medicine, measuring correctly is crucial. Children’s liquid medicines should only be measured in metric units to avoid overdoses common with teaspoons and tablespoons, U.S. pediatricians say. Tens of thousands of kids wind up in emergency rooms after unintentional medicine overdoses each year, and the cause is often badly…
Few things in life are as frustrating and worrisome as watching your child spit out the medicine you gave her to help lower her fever, stop her terrible cough and just make her better. Most parents have been in the same situation, and it never ceases to worry any of them. You know that with…
It is difficult to test your baby’s vision before about age 3, when she can describe what she’s seeing. But even before your baby can speak, there are ways to identify vision problems. Parents spend a lot more time with their baby than the pediatricians does, and they spend a lot of that time gazing…