Nature has bestowed upon mothers this beautiful gift to nurture the babies. However first time mothers often face many problems like difficulty in latching, cracked nipples, pain while nursing, less flow etc. Besides, lack of sleep and many dos and donts from elders and neighbours makes it worse.
We at our clinic guide and counsel these mothers to make this whole experience pleasurable for the mother and baby.
Over the last decade there has been an increasing incidences of allergies and asthma in children, due to many factors like increasing pollution, weather fluctuation and wrong dietary habits. Many times, these children present with recurrent cold, cough, wheezing and not growing well.
Timely diagnosis and right treatment can prevent all these and unnecessary use of antibiotics can be avoided. Also parental counselling, dos and donts and a step care approach is followed at our asthma clinic with excellent results.
Temper Tantrums, hyperactivity, Autism, bed wetting, delayed speech, are few to name. Timely intervention, parental counselling and a positive reward approach is what we recommend.
Raising terrific teens can be really trying times for the parents. Getting the right guidance at this age 10y to 18yrs is very crucial to prevent them from falling into bad company, wrong sexual practices, alcohol and drugs consumption etc.
Sex education is also very important along with right dietary advice as they often get too image conscious and eat less or wrong. All these issues are well tackled with confidentiality at our clinic.
Dr. Shilpa admits her critical newborns at MGM hospital NICU which is a tertiary care centre with state of art latest facilities like ventilators, cardiac monitors, phototherapy unit and a sensitive and caring nursing staff. She is also attached to Fortis Hiranandani Hospital, Sector 10, Vashi.
IAP RECOMMENDED VACCINES
Age | Vaccine | Important Milestones | |
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Birth | BCG OPVO Hep B 1 |
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6 Weeks | Hep B 2 IPV 1 DTPw/DTPa 1 HIB 1 Rotaviral 1 Pneumococcal 1 |
Partial head holding Hands open Social smile Responds to voice Coos |
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10 Weeks | OPV 2 DTPw/DTPa 2 HIB 2 Rotaviral 2 Pneumococcal 2 |
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14 WEEKS | IPV 3 DTPw/DTPa 3 HIB 3 Rotaviral 3 Pneumococcal 3 |
Head holding Weight on forearms Reaches out for objects Responds to sound by sounds |
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6 Months | Hep B Vac 3 OPV 1 FLU 1 FLU 2 |
Complete head holding Transfer of objects Vocalization Laughs | |
9 Months | MMR-1 OPV-2 |
Sits without support,Assisted pincer babbles, responds to name |
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10 Months | Typhoid CV-1 | ||
12 Months | Hep A | Peek a boo,Understands 'No' Walks supported, releases obj |
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13 Months | Pneumococcal B | ||
14 Months | Varicella 1 | ||
15 Months | MMR-2 | 4-7words, Begins to point Walks unsupported, releases obj |
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18 Months | IPV B1 DTPw/DTPa B1 HIB B1 Hep A2 |
Several single words,points Imaginative play |
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2 Years | Typhoid CV -2 Meningococcal |
Jumps, 2 word sentences Follows simple commands |
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41/2-5 Years | DTPw/DTPa B2 Varicella 2 |
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10 Years | TdaP Cervical cancer 1 Cervical cancer 2 |