All Posts Tagged With: "Baby’s health"

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Oct
2009

RECALL: Plum Organics Portable Pouch Baby Food, Possible Botulism Risk

Plum Organics ™ announced today that it is taking the precautionary measure of voluntarily recalling one particular batch of its 4.22 oz. Apple & Carrot Portable Pouch baby food because of risk of potential contamination with Clostridium botulinum, which can cause botulism.

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16
Oct
2009

Study: Giving Babies Tylenol Before Vaccinations May Make Shots Less Effective

New Research suggests that giving babies Tylenol to prevent fever when they get childhood vaccinations could make the shots a little less effective.

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29
Jun
2009

Celebrities Shop In Support Of EB Medical Research

The Malibu Lumber Yard was abuzz with celebrities today shopping to support EB Medical Research Foundation.
The annual picnic, which was Presented By Sinupret For Kids And Yogen Fruz, attracted many for kid face-painting, balloon art and jewelry making.

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26
Jun
2009

Chinese Two-Year-Old Smokes A Pack Of Cigarettes A Day

Yes! You read that right. Tong Liangliang was taught how to smoke by his father, who believed the habit would alleviate pain caused by a hernia.

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29
Apr
2009

Swine Flu And Your Baby or Young Child

In the last few days the Swine Flu fears have been put front and center as the dangerous virus travels worldwide. Children are at the highest risk of mortality if affected with the Swine Flu. Here is a list of symptoms to look for and ways to prevent getting the flu.

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13
Apr
2009

Health Canada Test Show Excessive Leaching in Avent Bottles Containing BPA

A New Health Canada test has shown that Avent baby bottles leached more than double the amount of BPA than a cheaper house brand bottle.

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6
Mar
2009

Keep Your Baby’s Teeth Sparkling With Tooth Tissues

Tooth Tissues are a unique product that help parents take care of baby teeth.

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Mar
2009

Sugar Water As Pain Relief For Babies?

Researchers at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), the University of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital and York University have found that ’sucrose analgesia’, or table sugar, reduces a baby’s pain response to routine care following a painful procedure.

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10
Feb
2009

Baby Born With Heart On His Stomach

A Chinese baby has stunned doctors after he survived being born with his heart on his stomach.
Surgeons said the boy would only live for less then a week after he was born in eastern China.
Now, more than a month later, the baby is home with his parents who are trying to raise $70,000 for [...]

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6
Feb
2009

Do You Know Which Foods To Avoid While Breast Feeding?

Our new baby has been a little fussy at night lately and I think it may have something to do with the foods I am eating.

While I was pregnant someone told me that the baby would tolerate all of the foods I ate while I he was inutero.
Now that he is here, I am pretty [...]

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26
Jan
2009

Breast Milk To Cure An Infected Tear Duct?

Yesterday we noticed that our new baby has some goop in his one eye when he cried.As the day went on, it got worse – but only when he cried, which led me to believe that it had something to do with his tear ducts.

A quick check online took me to ehow.com where one of [...]

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20
Dec
2008

Health Canada: Cough Syrup Not To Be Used For Children Under 6

The cough syrup issue has been a concern for parents since last winter when it was revealed that the deaths of three infants between 1 and 6 months old were linked to cough and cold medication use.
In that time there have been many warnings and even a recall on many different brands of cough syrup [...]

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