Taking Temperature
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Baby May Have Swallowed Some Plastics Shards
Asked by J.B. from Houston
on January 1, 2011
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My 11 month old was chewing on a plastic thermometer cover I found some plastic in his mouth and dug it out, but he may have swallowed some. He nursed and is sleeping...
Best Temperature to Set Home Thermostat at W/ a 2Yo Asthmatic
Asked by S.A. from Chicago
on November 29, 2010
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On a recent trip home to Jersey to visit my mom, my 2yo got admitted to the hospital for 2days w/ pneumonia and the MD's are saying that the reason he had such a bad r...
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- I'm not sure about temps for asthma but have you tried sleep sacks or really warm jammies for night time? That would alleviate the need for a heater in his room, whic...
- I agree with what everyone said about keeping the temperature in your house down and the cleaning supplies....but no one (unless I missed it) said anything about the s...
- 2 things really pop out to me here. 1) you temp sounds totally fine. Keeping the house at 68 degrees is considered to be pretty healthy, and yes, a little cooler wh...
Shot in the Dark - Auto Repair Question
Asked by C.B. from Kansas City
on November 21, 2008
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i know this is a long shot but i don't belong to any car maintenance/repair message boards! so maybe some hot chickie mama out there konws something about cars. i know...
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- I'm one of those mechanic chicks! lol First, DO NOT drive the car! Repeat overheating will warp a head and can blow a head gasket. Here's my first few thoughts:...
- ohhh darling. i hate it when this stuff happens! i could sit and speculate a bunch. i think the best thing to do is take it up to auto zone. they do a FREE diagnostic....
- you may have screwed up your heater core. You need to get this checked out. My dad has had a couple heater cores go out and that's usually the sign, the heater is bl...
Baby Physically Can't Seem to Poop
Asked by M.R. from Minneapolis
on February 15, 2009
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My 5 month old son is exclusively breastfed.
I know that breastfed babies can go for a week without pooping, but my child is very uncomfortable and gassy by the ...
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- I would suggest the chiropractor also. I have a little one that I care for that had always had problems with BMs. It took one adjustment and he was totally changed.
- Maybe try starting him on cereal will help. It could be that the BM's are just too loose for him to get out on his own, the cereal will help thicken them up and he wi...
- I would talk to your doctor about this. Babies can become dependent on the thermometer technique and can't go them selves. The same thing happens with suposatories a...
3 1/2 Month Old Poop Questions
Asked by S.A. from Milwaukee
on May 18, 2010
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Hi, my little girl is just over 3 & 1/2 months and the last time she had a stool was on Thurs. It's now Tuesday & I'm starting to get a bit concerned. I am exclusively...
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- That's interesting that your pediatrician's office suggested stimulating the rectum - ours strictly discouraged it unless we brought our child to the office for a nurs...
- Wow...in this day and age, with everything we know about breastfeeding, the response from the nurse surprises me. Are you sure she understood that you are exclusively ...
- What if YOU just drank the apple juice, prune juice, and increased YOUR fiber intake? Everything that goes into you finds away into your breastmilk. That way you can i...
Fever Gone, and Back Again
Asked by K.S. from Los Angeles
on August 18, 2010
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Last Sunday, my toddler, a little girl aged 1 year and 9 months old, spent the day running around and playing with her cousins. She was perfectly healthy that day, but...
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- K., it sounds like your daughter is fighting something. A fever isn't a bad thing. It is the way a body naturally fights illness. Only if it gets too high as to cause ...
- Check to see if she is teething. She may be starting to get her two year molars.
- The medicine is masking the fever, not curing what ever is going on with her. There is a good chance she may be getting her 2 year molars. I never really medicated my ...
Gas and Constipation
Asked by D.B. from San Francisco
on December 8, 2007
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I am the Father of a 2 1/2 week old newborn. Both me and the mother are lactose intolerant. Baby started on a milk formula and later switched to soy due to heavy gas ...
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- There is over the counter anti-gas called simithecone, or something like that. It works wonders! Newborns digestive tract is brand new and not used to digesting the ...
- Hi D. - First, I acknowledge your frustration with seeing your little baby in pain so often. I know it is difficult, and I'm so sorry that you're having to go through...
- My son when through the same thing when he was a newborn. First the milk base formula and then the soy with little results. We took him back in to our Ped. and he expl...
Baby Constipated?
Asked by M.D. from Chicago
on January 22, 2011
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My daughter is 11 months and and has a very, very difficult time with bowel movements. She will try to go many times during the course of the day with no result. If ...
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- get her some fish oil of flax oil something with her omega 3s and id suspect a possible intolerance to dairy as well
- I saw another comment about if it is super liquidy that she is probably constipated, which is true, that happens with my daughter from time to time. If that is the cas...
- I would try to increase her fiber intake. DIfferent kids need different amounts. I know that sounds weird, but my two boys are almost complete opposites in how much ...
Is 60-70 Degree Weather Too Cold for Pool?
Asked by S.S. from Los Angeles
on May 11, 2011
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My husband thought it was a good idea to take our 23 month old son in the pool yesterday and it was 60-70 degrees outside and windy. I was cold standing there in my j...
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- Depends on a ton of factors. For one, 70 here is about the warmest it gets and it feels so nice we will swim in glacier fed streams. A heated pool at 60 or 70 I woul...
- Whether it's "too cold" for a grown-up is totally subjective. But I would be mad if my husband took a small child in the water in that weather! (Which he would proba...
- How warm is the water? My kids have been swimming in our pool for the past few weeks, and we're a few hundred miles north of you. But, we turned on the pool heater as ...
What Do You Keep Your Heat Set at During the Night?
Asked by K.K. from Washington DC
on November 3, 2011
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Hi Moms!
I live in an apartment, its very cold! I have put up old t-shirts by the doors, curtains and sheets around the windows...still very cold! Anyhow; I was won...
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- We keep the heat at 68 or 69. I think that's still a little warm but the little guy is in the coldest room in the house and we don't want him to freeze. I would ask ...
- We live in a house, I'm near Houston Tx so we actually have our AC on right now! Lol, but when it gets cold we keep it at 67 or 68. I like it at 66 though, but it is c...
- We live in a house and keep the thermostat set at 62 during the night and 67 during the day. I stay plenty warm at night under my quilt and sometimes an electric blan...
