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Drug allergies
How to protect your kids Drug allergy occurs when the immune system reacts to a medication. Though not as common as food or Hay Fever allergies, reaction to medication affects children and adults. According to Dr Magda Attia, a general practitioner, drug allergy accounts for 20 per cent of all allergy patients seen in a month, with the majority being children. Just…
Childless? – letting another woman get pregnant on your behalf
Wandia and John had been trying to bear a child countless times, unsuccessfully. They had listened to every old woman’s folktales on fertility enhancement and would have visited a local mganga were it not for the good Lord forbidding it in His word. Then once, after months of drinking beetroot and amaranth—she believes that was…
Caring for your baby-the first few days
Your baby must be immunised, against all the immunisable diseases. This baby is over-dressed!’ exclaimed the doctor, when Joyce took her newborn daughter for a check up, a few weeks after delivery. ‘You see,’ explained the doctor,” a baby is simply a small human being, but with same senses as an older child or an adult.…
1+1=11? You have the answer
For many of us, homework has never been fun, and every time the teacher asked us to take down a few sums for homework, our spirits immediately sunk, especially if this was a subject that we didn’t like. Believe it or not, your child may not be the exception to the rule. However, it is your…
Only the best for you…
JOHNSON’S Baby-Trusted by Kenyan mothers and midwives. With its ‘NO MORE TEARS’ and ‘CLINICALLY PROVEN MILDNESS’ formulations, it makes sense that JOHNSON’S’ Baby is endorsed and used by Kenyan midwives. So you can be reassured that JOHNSON’S Baby really is the best you can do for your baby, leaving baby’s skin soft, smooth and perfectly…
Test-tube Babies according to Kenyan Law
Mweni and John are a young couple from Kileleshwa, Nairobi, who had been unable to conceive for nine years. Mweni had blocked fallopian tubes. Having gone from doctor to doctor for help to no avail, she was referred to the Nairobi In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) centre and six months later, Mweni is now expectant. ‘It’s…
Making her accountable
Carol’s 4-year-old daughter, Daisy, loved to play, typical of most girls her age. However, Carol just couldn’t get Daisy to clean up after her play. Whenever she asked her to put away her toys, Daisy would throw a tantrum and stubbornly refuse to cooperate. Such situations are not uncommon in our homes, and teaching our…
Cuts – What to do when they happen
Very active children will once in a while get a graze or cut in the house or while playing outside. The range of cuts can be minor scraping of the knee to a deep cut that calls for admission at the hospital. Regardless of the state, all of these cuts need fast attention to stop…
Expressing BREAST MILK
There are only two ways by which milk can normally be released from your breasts: by expressing or by breastfeeding. The action of squeezing milk from a breast, is known as expressing breast milk. It can either be manual (by hand) or automated (by an electric pump). Expressing breast milk is an art that you need…
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