Meeting with your doctor when your child is sick

Your general practitioner doctor should be and will be your best friend soon after a few months when your child was born. What do you tell him when you take your child to his clinic when he is ill? Often times in our anxiety and confusion to get the child better , we do omit the most relevant details. Here are some pointers and guidelines to go by...

1. Tell the doctor if your child has been treated by another doctor before.
2. Is your child allergic to certain medicines?
3. Is the child taking any medicines now? If so, for what?
4. Ask the doctor to give it in writing the name of the medicine.
5. What will this medicine do? How does react for your child's present complaint?
6. Are there any side effects for the medicine the doctor just gave you? Will there be nausea?
7. How do you give this medicine? How many times?
8. What kind of foods can the child take?
9. Remember to check the bottle's labels carefully. How should you store it?
10. Report to the doctor about any abnormal behavior from your child after he has taken the medicine.
11. Remember to throw away used medicines left overs after your child gets better.

Every child is a different child

I have been so fond of children all along, especially after my nephew Vinny was born to my sister in Canada. I have seen the child grow up till today for the last 11 years. My nephew Vinny is one hell of a healthy good looking boy. Yet there were times in all these 11 years when I would see his mom (my sister) struggle to care for him for he would get into every kind of a health hazard. He had measles, chicken pox, mumps and much more. Once he had a fever I thought was going to take him away from us. He once climbed on our neighbor's motorcycle and hurt himself severely. We, my sister, my brother-in-law and I were often at loggerheads as to how to deal with the child's problems. There is not a doctor here close by to attend to his immediate need before we took him to a clinic or hospital about a mile away. We had draw upon our half knowledge ideas to deal with Vinny's complaints. These days I have been onto blogging for business. I thought "Why not I start a blog to help other parents deal with their child's care? In the next few weeks and months, I am planning to share my experiences with other parents, experiences that will be of help to take care of their own children. My nephew Vinny did not have to face not all the complaints and disease conditions that I will be talking about. I am sure there will be many posts that I will be writing after talking to my other sister who lives in San Francisco. She is a doctor and should know better.