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What are different home remedies for Bedwetting?

Bedwetting is a common problem that usually prevails in the children of small age. It is also known to effect teenagers too. It is urinating in the sleep time.

Symptoms of Bed wetting
• Increase in thirst
• Painful urination
• Snoring
• Changes in the color of urine
• Rashes on the bottom or genital area
• Sleeping problems
• Daytime drowsiness

Causes for Bedwetting
• Bladder Size
• Recognition Problem
• Hormonal Imbalance
• Stress or Changes
• Infections
• Sleep Apnea
• Constipation
• Structural Defects
• Using Diuretics
• Heredity
• Kidneys lack hormones that facilitate the holding of urine in the bladder.
• Sudden attacks may occur due to diabetes, sickle cell anemia etc.
• Defects in urinary tract such as improper growth of muscles or tissues.
• Underdeveloped nervous system.
• Bladder infection can also cause bedwetting.
• Stress following a recent event.

Home Remedies for Bedwetting

• Alleviating any fears or stress by talking to the child.
• Encouraging the child to urinate at the start of the bedtime routine and just before actually going to bed in a daily basis.
• Ensuring that the child stays away from foods or beverages that have the smallest amount of alcohol or caffeine.
• Habituate the child to a route urinating schedule.
• Treating conditions like constipation, either through a diet, or through traditional medication.
• Using herbs like Lemon Balm, Horsetail, Zea Mays and Corn silk, which can help alleviate stress and anxiety in children is recommended.
• Certain herbs like Causticum, Pulsatilla, Ursi, Corn silk and Lycopodium are effective in treating bedwetting.
• Massaging the child’s inner thigh with wort oil helps in curing bedwetting.
• Let the child drink six to eight oz. of cranberry juice, an hour before going to bed.
• Make sure to leave a light on throughout the night in the bathroom to ensure that kid is comfortable.
• It is important for the child to drink less water before three to four hours of going to bed.
• During cold climate, dress your child with warm and full sleeved clothes.
• This will help them remain warm which means less urination.
• Help the child to become normal and feel secure and loved.
• Never scold or make fun of the bedwetting child.
• Chewing the cinnamon bark once in a day is one of the common home remedies for bedwetting.
• Try to avoid sweets, meat, artificial additives and too much of fruits.
• Mix Sarson powder in a cup of milk, and give to the child at night before going to bed.
• This will stops the bedwetting problem and is one of the good home remedies for bedwetting.
• Some of the experts suggest that “Magnet Therapy” works.
• Take Neo tablets (Charak) in the dose of 1 to 2 tablets daily for at least two to three months.
• Some alternative therapies like shiatsu and reflexology have reported curing many of the cases positively.

Diet for Bedwetting
• Avoid artificial additives, processed food, junk foods, soy and eggs
• Strictly avoid colas, sodas and fruit juices.
- Increase the amount of fibrous food to remove harmful toxins from the body. The foods that can be consumed are :
• fresh fruits
• vegetables
• whole grains
• cereals
• milk
• sesame
• bananas
• almonds

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How to handle some medical emergencies during health crisis?

Medical emergencies are not pre-planned. They occur all of a sudden. There is an emergency room available in all hospitals. What can be done to handle some medical emergencies that occur all of a sudden is described below:

- Asthma
When the symptoms of asthma like wheezing, chest tightness, coughing, breath shortness worsens until he / she is unable to speak more than four words, blueness around lips and reliever medication is ineffective, person should be admitted to the emergency room in which he would be put on a nebuliser in which oxygen is directly delivered to the lungs. Oxygen mask can also be used.

- Heart Attack
Symptoms of heart attack include pain across chest, arms, jaws or neck and it does not lessen with rest, nausea, vomiting, difficulty in breathing, rapid weak and irregular pulse. Move to an emergency room and on the way to hospital chew a 160mg aspirin to stop clumping of blood platelets. In an emergency room, ECG is done and blood studies are done. Intravenous nitroglycerine reduces heart’s oxygen need and improves coronary circulation. The chance of death is halved if you reach in first hour.

- Fractures
When a fracture is suspected, pain worsens with the movement, that particular area swells, a limb is crooked. Transport to an emergency room very carefully. In the emergency room, x-ray of the limb is done and broken bone ends are treated.To relieve pain, a muscle relaxant is given. The area is immobilized with plaster cast or splint.

- Internal Bleeding
Sometimes, there is internal bleeding after an injury. Symptoms are pale and clammy skin, rapid weak pulse, shallow and rugged breathing, fainting, swelling, pain and tenderness. While you are waiting for ambulance to go to an emergency room, raise the legs and cover with blanket and do not offer an food or water. In an emergency room, the person is diagnosed and then treated.

- Diabetes
Sometimes, the blood sugar falls below 50 because of delayed and missed meals, sudden vigorous activities, irregular medications. It results in blurred vision, numbness, paleness, headaches, unconsciousness, tingling in lips and and fingers. When a person is admitted to an emergency room, the IV fluids are administered.

- Poison
Induce vomiting if poison is not in the form of kerosene, gasoline, turpentine, cleaning fluid, insect sprays. In an emergency room, urine and blood tests are done to identify the poison and specific antidotes are suggested.

- Urinary Retention
Sometimes a person has a full bladder but they could not urinate. When you are admitted to an emergency room, a catheter is inserted to allow the person to empty the bladder.

- Heat Exhaustion
It can hit you in a hot, noisy, smoke filled disco or pub resulting in loss of electrolytes. In an emergency room, patient is pumped with IV fluids to revive the blood pressure.