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1000 Points In New Born Care – Part 44

1. Children with worms in the intestine will also have anaemia since these worms will suck the blood and lead to anaemia.
2. To prevent anaemia children should be fed with plenty of green leafy vegetables, meat and egg in the diet.
3. Children may get abdominal pain due to many reasons. Worms in the intestine, inflammation of the stomach as well as intestine infection and inflammation of the appendix, inflammation of any one of the organ in the abdomen, abdominal tuberculosis, telescoping of one portion of the intestine, female adolescents at the time of menstruation are some of the reason for abdominal pain.
4. So, if children complains of abdominal pain just giving cool drinks, massaging abdomen are not proper treatment.
5. If the children suffer from acute appendicitis and abdominal pain they may even have to be subjected to emergency operation.
6. Parents should know some facts about the appendicitis. Children will complain of pain in the right lower quadrant of the abdomen.  Fever, loss of appetite, nauseating feeling, vomiting are the other symptoms.  Initially the pain may be in the region of umbilicus.
7. If any child complains of pain in the right lower quadrant immediate medical consultation should be sought.
8. If children are bitten by pet animals, other animals or other child while playing and if it is bleeding, clean the wound with a dry sterile cloth by giving little pressure till the bleeding arrests. Medical care is necessary.
9. Bitten area should be washed with lukewarm water for 3-5 minute, then it should be mopped.
10. A clean dressing should be done at the bitten site. Dressing is not necessary for human bite.