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1000 Points In New Born Care – Part 42

1. Children who suffer from throat pain, should be made to gargle salt water for the throat sterilization.
2. Children should always be given lukewarm water or boiled and cooled water to drink.
3. While giving solid diet to the children it is better to give soft and easily digestible foods like Idli, Rice, Rice Porridge etc.,
4. Diaper rashes usually occurs in children which are put on diapers.
5. Sometimes, these types of rashes can happen following infection of the skin with bacteria or fungus.
6. Diaper rash is characterized by reddish skin lesion over the external genitalia, thighs and perianal regions.
7. Babies with diaper rash should have the diapers changed frequently. The reddish skin should be exposed to the atmosphere for free aeration.
8. Thighs, hips and external genetalia should be washed gently with mild soap and dried.
9. Over the diaper rash the ointment prescribed by the doctor should be applied.
10. One of the important problems of adolescents is pimples. It is medically called as ‘ACNE VULGARIS’