Dr. Ganesh Kamat

Dear lybrate user, it's very important question and good no. Of young mothers are concerned about it.In fact at six months child should have a change. He start picking up things from floor and put it in mouth. Mother feels that her breast milk has gone down. Fact is mothers should feed in consonance of age of child in months. A six month old should be. Fed at six hourly interval for twenty minutes.in between if child cry than he should be given very thin soup, half cup of home prepared cereals. May be wheat rice. At times mashed green veg. Leaves can be used. But do not force feed, change feeds, give three hours interval between two feeds. Do not stop breast suddenly but gradually in next 12 months. By 9 months, child can bite indicating semisolid feeds can be introduced.

Hello Mr. Lybrate-user, as per your queries, it seems you should get a hearing check up done. As per your childeren, they are quiet right on their point as, it seems you hv got a high frequencies hearing loss, where you can miss sounds like bell, door bell, telephone ring etc. It is purely due to ageing or could be due to some associate problem like high b. P, increased blood sugar or could be due to thyroid also. It is necessary to done a hearing test very soon. After that further step can be taken.

Homoeopathic medicine---------------- chamomilla 30 (dr reckeweg) drink 1 drop in 1 spoon fresh water twice daily for 10 days and consult me thereafter.

Please wait for another 5 days. The baby should be 45 days old. Diarrhoea (Rotateq/Rotarix and pneumonia vaccines are optional vaccines but it is better to give them.

Hi, rotavirus vaccine is a oral vaccine. You can give 3 doses of rotasure along at. 6, 10, 14 weeks. 3 doses 4 weeks apart. But last dose should be before 32 weeks. Or 8 th month.

That means that urine is now free from infection. But if it was a proven infection needs evaluation as the baby's age is less than 1 year and a male.

Consult a urologist to remove any obstructions in urinary tract to prevent any further damage to kidneys at its earliest.

If you bottle feed stop bottle and give breast and other feeds from a cup. Avoiding bottle. If he is breastfed alone the loose motion is harmless and children often pass more times normally.

Irrespective of intentions you can't change the behavior of children positively by threatening, criticizing,demeaning, insulting and belittling them in front of others.

He is only 8 years and you are the parent: is there any choice he has, or was he given this option about attending school? just lead him by his ear to school and whether he likes it or not, he must be made to go. Now if he not a communicative child, then perhaps he has a problem at school that he may find difficult to discuss with you. Talk to his teacher and find out if there is something at school that is troubling him. If he has friends, talk to them too. If he does not have friends, that could be troubling in itself about the nature of the child. You may then want to check whether he has social problems for various reasons and meet with a child counselor, if the school has not got one. Learning has to be made interesting especially if he is an over-intelligent child. The disobedience will be an attempt to wrest back the control he may have lost when he was younger, or he may have lost his importance, if another child was born recently. The counselor will be able to help with all of these possibilities.

I want to know after 3 month of plaster xray was normal. Then it was followed by corrected shoes. I think now a corrective surgery is proper option for this.

Baby care product is exclusive breast feeding up to 6 months of age. there is no need of using any cream.

Some children do have constipation problem at this age. Mosy probably it is functional constipation. Give plenty of water and lot of fibres in the diet. If there is no improvement show to a pediatric surgeon.

Dinner‎: ‎Vegetable khichdi; Raita‎ Breakfast‎: ‎Wheat porridge (daliya) with raisins (kishmish) and milk‎ Evening snack‎: ‎Banana (kela) milkshake‎ Lunch‎: ‎Black-eyed peas (lobhia); Rice

A 13 month old can eat almost everything that you cook in the house. Make food without chillis and amchur and offer a variety. Give small morsels without forcing. Let him enjoy the tastes and texture variations. You will soon know what he loves or rejects.

Your milk has not become sour but as his teeth have developed there is a risk of damage to your nipples and for few days he will cry and than he will get used to it for your hand made food.

Milk and cerelac are now no longer required at this age. Start with rice or ragi flour porridge or soups and fruit juices to begin with. Let me know if the child has hard stools as it is a common reason for food refusal.

Please give her following medicine ;- baryta carb 3x / 2 tabs twice a day for one month. Revert back after one month with feedback.

Shivering can be seen in any bacterial or viral infection. Give syp. Paracetomol for fever every 6 hourly. If it doesn't subsides even after 3 days blood test should be done.

Looks to be case of nephrotic syndrome. May progress to secondary relapse. Kindly get a urine routine and urine culture done and review with reports.