Simple Tips In Taking Care Of Your Medicine

Although some people don't really think much about where they store their medicines, but this can spell the difference between a good tablet and a bad one. Keep these in mind when storing your medicines and medical supplies at home.

OUT OF THE BATHROOM

If your medicine cabinet is in your bathroom, move it someplace else. Putting your medicine cabinet in the bathroom is not advisable for medicines and medical supplies such as band aids since it provides a humid and warm environment. This accelerates drug degradation and may reduce its potency. Store your medicines and medical supplies in a cool, dry place, such as in your room, instead.

KEEP IT IN THE ORIGINAL BOX

Pill boxes are very useful especially for patients who often forget to take their medicines. But it's still better to keep pills in their original packaging. There are medicines that are categorized as light or photo sensitive. These drugs degrade when exposed to sunlight and they should not be transferred to any other container such as pill boxes. The original packaging protects the drug from light, which plays an important role in the physical and chemical stability of a drug.

TAKE IT TO THE FRIDGE

If the label says so. If it is indicated on the label that it should be refrigerated or if it requires a temperature range of 8 to 15 Degrees Celsius, then you may store your medicines in the refrigerator. Exceeding the standard storage condition of a certain drug will increase its rate of decomposition and will lessen its efficacy.

CHECK THE LABELS

When in doubt, always follow the storage instructions on the label and keep them in their original bottles or blister packs, to make sure that the medicines do not go bad quickly.

A Fast Pain Relief For Your Child

If your child twists his ankle playing soccer or hurts his arm during gym, give him ibuprofen. A new study published in Pediatrics found that ibuprofen was twice as effective as acetaminophen at reducing pain in kids who came to the emergency room for sprains, bruises, or broken bones. Although both drugs treat fever, ibuprofen also reduces inflammation.

Does your child have Lazy Eye?

Have you notice that your child's eye stray when he stares at you? If so, have him checked for amblyopia, or "lazy eye." Visual pathways carry images from the eyes to the brain. When visual pathways do not develop correctly, one eye becomes stronger than the other. The weaker eye lags behind in recognizing visual messages and the brain depends more on the strong eye. The weaker and unused eye strays from the point of visual focus. The result? Poor vision. When this happens, a doctor prescribes prescription glasses or an eye patch that covers the stronger eye and forces the weaker eye to work harder. Poor nutrition, injury (traumatic amblyopia) and cross eye (strabismus) are some factors that influence the development of amblyopia. The key to treating amblyopia is detection before ages 8 to 10. Otherwise, it may be too late for corrective glasses or eye patches.

3 tips you can to do check your childs eyesight

Although going to a doctor is the best choice for this, but there are also some ways that you can check to determine if your child has a problem with their eyesight.

1. CAMERA TRICK. Take a good look at a photo of your child. The flash of the camera should reflect in your child's eye. If this does not fall on the same spot in both eyes, there's a possibility your child's eye are misaligned. Also if you're checking for red eye in photos, both eyes must show the same color. If one of his eyes has a different color, then it would be best to consult your ophthalmologist.

2. FLASH OF LIGHT. Shine a flashlight on your child's eye. The reflex should also fall on the same spot on both eyes. If the spots are not in a similar location, then misalignment is possible.

3. PATCH ME UP. Cover on of your child's eye and ask him to focus on an object. After a while, move the patch to his other eye. If the other eyes moves while one is patched, then your child might have a problem with focusing.

Newborn Babies might benefit from having music played to them

This ones interesting, I found this article using our library online journals. This may help those incoming pregnant mommies.

Playing music to neonates may have physiological and behavioural benefits and might reduce pain and improve feeding, according to the preliminary findings of researchers in Canada who investigated the effects of music played to term or premature infants.

Six studies evaluated music for painful procedures. A high quality pilot study involving 23 infants undergoing circumcision showed benefits for music for the outcomes of heart rate, oxygen saturation and pain, while two low quality studies showed no difference. Three low quality studies involving infants undergoing heel prick showed some evidence that music might be beneficial.

One study involving 32 poorly feeding infants evaluated die use of non-nutritive sucking via a pacifier-activated lullaby and found a significant increase in oral feeding rates. In a study of 22 infants with chronic lung disease, there were no significant differences in physiological outcomes between those exposed to music and controls.

(Well my 9 month old girl likes music, she likes to listen to it will drinking her milk in the bottle. Although this article is for newborn.)