If a child is ill

Sometimes it happens that someone in the family becomes ill. The hardest hit when a child is sick. Every parent wants only one thing to his child was always healthy. But if it happened, and the baby got sick, you should be able to pull myself together and start acting. Sometimes it may seem that childhood consists of a series of diseases with short intervals, a "truce." And only the parents depends on how healthy the child will grow.

If a child is ill

As soon as the child grows, parents have many questions. For example, why the child does not take the breast? What to do if your child is coughing? How to bring down the temperature? How to give medicine? But every answer to any of the questions to the clinic not be tired with running about. How then can it be? The solution can be a "family pediatrician." Family pediatrician - is a doctor who oversees the child from the moment of its emergence into the light. To him can be accessed not only about the disease, but also for advice. In addition, a doctor will come to your home on the first call.

In civilized countries there is a long-term "family doctor". But for us it is a wonder. And about the "home of pediatricians' almost nobody knows anything. They replace conventional pediatricians from children's clinics. Well, if this doctor is watching the baby from the cradle, and he does not need much explaining. But the district pediatrician has, in addition to visits to the house, has other duties (for example, to take patients to the clinic).

When is an urgent need to seek help in a medical institution? If:

    Suddenly the child began vomiting;
    high (greater than 38 degrees), the temperature of the body;
    convulsions, drowsiness, loss of consciousness;
    sharp pain in the abdomen;
    shortness of breath.

Diagnosis of childhood diseases is difficult to say the inability to young patients that they have hurt. Therefore, your doctor may refer the child to the hospital. Child's hospital stay to 6 years always with someone from the family. If parents do not have this capability, they can use the services of nurses, which will be near the child around the clock.

Parents have the right to refuse admission of the child. Then the doctor will inform about the severity of the disease and the possible consequences and forward to the further observation pediatrician. Just do not forget that the services are "family pediatrician" paid, and it is not always able to replace a team of skilled professionals working in hospital wards.