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Myopia is commonly known as “short-sightedness”.  In Singapore, many of the children developed myopia by the age of 12 years old and we have been seeing more and more children wearing spectacles at a young age of probably 6-7 years old.
What are the factors causing myopia and how can we protect [...]

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Antibiotics can be harmful to your toddler and should be use with care. We are so accustomed with antibiotics that we often overused it.  Antibiotics is not the cure to every fever, cough or cold.  It will only be useful when the sickness of your child is cause by bacteria.  However, in many [...]

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Bronchiolitis is an infection caused by the viruses that affect the small breathing airways.  This is a very common infection in young children especially infants.

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Eating healthy is very important regardless who you are.  All of us know the good of eating vegetables and fruits but face the problem that children refuse to eat vegetables and fruits.  Ashton refused to eat vegetables and fruits sometime back too. He seems to have an eye for vegetables.  He can picked [...]

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Ashton has been throwing tantrums lately and it getting rather out of control. While the whole family were having breakfast yesterday, his sweet and loving demeanor morphs into some montrous behaviour.  He will start lying down on the ground in the public or sits in the middle of the carpark.  Yesterday, I even [...]

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I regretted not breastfeeding Ashton as much when he was a baby. He was off breastfeeding all together when he was 4 months old. He is quite prone to common illness such as cold, flu and cough. Whenever it started off, sometimes he takes quite a long time to recover. There was [...]

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I guess the situation is getting pretty bad. Read in the chinese paper (Lianhe Zaobao) online that HFMD outbreak in China (Anhui) has involved 800 children with 19 deaths.
I began to wonder since HFMD is a benign disease among children, why can it cause so many deaths cases? I went checking on the net searching [...]

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Just read the Sunday Times today. The hand foot and mouth disease is terrifying. There are more and more cases coming up but it is not the peak yet. Ashton has got a little cough and I am thinking probably I will let him skip school tomorrow. He will be very upset as he loves [...]

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Oh no..Ashlyn refused food again.  She is already going 9 months old but her solid intake is barely half compared to Ashton when Ashton was at her age.  I got kind of panicky.  The peadiatrician suggested more vegetables for her to build her immune system.  I am now trying all my best to encourage her [...]

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