Early Detection of Disease III

Discovering Sleep:

A health infant sleeps quiet, composed and is refreshing event. Most early infancy some times the child sleeps on the chest of the mother and then transferred to his cot. With the growing age sleep hours are reduced but when feeling sleepy, sleeps very fast on just lying down. The healthy infant has a quiet and peaceful sleep.

This is not the situation when infant is sick. Now  the child is not feeling like lying on the cot and requires  some one to comfort him by taking in  the arms, such a sleep shall be of short duration in a restless and disturbed manner.

The infant suffering from pain even of mild nature, the expression indicates its presence. On awakening, the problem associated with head, are expressed by eye brow contraction and grinding teeth sounds.
Any problem associated with the belly lips will have a wider look, teeth or gums are clearly visible in both situations with restlessness and frequent painful feeling.

Observing Infant Stools:

In neo-natal infants the stools have a dark color appearance like thick resinous semi solid mass. First milk secreted from the mother's breast has laxative effect to throw out any thing present in the bowel of the infant formed while in womb cleaning it within twenty four hours.

After the first clearance of stools all through infancy, the stools of healthy infants are light yellow in color, there is thinness consistence with mild odor, appearance is smooth and there are no lumps in it and are defecated out without pain or presence of substantial quantity of wind.  In a day normally child passes 2 to 3 defecations. Again as the infant grows old the motions shall be less frequent; shall be of darker color, quite solid.

The deviation found in respect of above characteristics, suggests sure sign of a wrong happening. The altered condition of the bowels is usually first of forthcoming disease. The mother or a nurse attending child be asked to have a look at daily evacuations. The physical look, color, and manner of discharge are the characters mainly viewed and observed for any deviation.

The stools either having curd like appearance, with green color, dark colored liquid, or with foul smell badly indicate unnatural. The manner of discharge of bowls when comparing keep in mind that a health infant there is only little wind as if squeezed out. In presence of disease feces are passed out with exertion of force and accompanied with irritation. The number of stools passed out within twenty four hours has a bearing on the disease although it varies from infant to infant.

Problems Associated with Cough:

The breathing in a healthy child is marked by equal number of inhaling and exhaling of air for respiration. The breathing is quiet, regular not audible and without apparent effort. With the inflammation of the air-tubes or lungs taking place, the inspiration within few hours becomes much quick and hurried and audible also. The vigilant mother’s attention to quickly look for circumstances of changed happening.

For all the changes happening in breathing pattern as compared with healthy standards, any even slightest difference should be noted at the earliest occasion. Many of complaints of chest with a dreadful consequences if examined early by a doctor, the progression of the disease shall be checked and shall be finished before it takes a critical phase and  may become beyond control of attending doctor. Thus both mother and father of the child need to be familiar with the broad characters of disease and take timely corrective steps to escape from the hazards of diseases of chest.

At the moment of child having  symptoms of common cold, with marked by hoarseness of voice and very rough cough, the situation need to be looked upon with an element of suspicion, with no neglect in getting medical opinion. Hoarseness may not be symptom of common cold in child. Perhaps this symptom may be a pre-disease hint of attack of "croup;" which progresses very fast and affects lungs the vital respiratory organ. The lungs are a very vital organ and needs proper protection from infective diseases by a decisive treatment by a specialized doctor in this field.

Approach for Treating Croup:

Observations of Dr. Cheyne are very illustrative and meaningful and very pertinent for the purpose this information is made available. It is of great importance that a mother gets well acquainted with above mentioned signs which are related to one of the most dreaded complaints to which childhood is exposed and if she is cautious enough to get medical assistance of the child during it’s first stage of occurrence and treatment shall be certainly successful; whereas, if such a "golden opportunity" is missed, the disease will never contained by all other mighty measures, most wisely selected or with hard efforts implemented.