A mother should be fully conversant with some of the disorders, detailed hereunder and take preventive or corrective steps so that the disorders do not assume serious proportions.


INFANT HICCOUGH/HICCUP

Some children, through not all of them, develop hiccoughs after taking milk and it is natural and does not constitute a disease. But if hiccough last for longer span and continue unabated, it does exhaust the little one, especially when breathing gets interrupted; and in this condition a doctor must be consulted for medical advice. Generally such hiccups subside automatically after a few minutes when no treatment is called for. According to some experts, hiccough is a healthy sigh for a baby, and the same disappears if some lukewarm water is given to the infant.