pediatrics icu

Health Q&A
Is Sunscreen required?

My 6 year old has started basketball classes after school. It happens from 3 pm to 4 pm (Bangalore). It's not that sunny during this time. We could see that her skin is getting tanned a little day by day. Do we have to apply Sunscreen at this age? Or can we leave it as it is?

Till what age should vitamin D be given?

My daughter is 23 months old. I have not stopped giving her vitamin D and Iron. Should I stop it? Till what age should we give it?

My 2 month old baby is pooping green

My baby is showing symptoms of green poop since last 3 to 4 days Baby is fed with both mother's milk and formula Dexolac stage 1 Pls advice what needs to be done. Do the brand dexolac is good or we need to switch to other brand.

Suffering from diarrhea

My daughter is 1 year old with weight of 6.8kg. For past 2 days she is passing out greenish colored and liquidy stools. She is also refusing to eat anything that we offer. We are giving her ORS water frequently and trying to offer her plain rice but she is rejecting rice however she drinks ORS water and also sometimes feeding on mother's milk. She is crying a lot but still active. What is it that I should be doing. Are there any prescriptive medicines which will help ease my daughter's condition. We went to a paediatrician and he prescribed her antibiotics and a probiotic directly saying it is a bacterial infection. I am skeptical of his approach and am reluctant to start her on antibiotics directly. What is standard protocol in such cases. Should the doctor have prescribed zinc initially to her heal her guy lining and the next steps should be antibiotics.

Meftal p ingestion

My son drank meftal p syrup bottle which had around 20 ml, he does not have fever now...currently he  has no symptoms...what should i do shd i take him to hospital ?