Conjunctivitis
If it feels like someone threw sand in your eyes, but you haven’t been anywhere near a beach or sandbox lately, you may have conjunctivitis. Conjunctivitis is an inflammation of the conjunctiva, the mucous membranes that line the inner surface of the eyelids and the front of the eyeball. “Conjunctivitis usually involves both eyes and [...]
Colic Medications and Babies: A Poor Combination
Several colic medications have been tried throughout the years, with varying degrees of success. However, recent studies out of the Southwest SIDS ( Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Research Institute in Lake Jackson, Texas, and Children’s Hospital in Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, have found that colic medications may prove dangerous and even fatal. The Texas [...]
How Much Does a Normal Baby Cry?
In 1962, the famous pediatrician T. Berry Brazelton, MD., published a study of the crying patterns of 80 normal, middle-class infants. He found that their crying lasted for about two hours a day at two weeks of age, increased to a peak of almost three hours a day by six weeks of age, and then [...]