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Warning: Keep Your Baby from Becoming a Red-Hot Pepper
Keeping your baby warm can be helpful, but overheating her is not
good. It may make her restless, cause a heat rash, and there is a
slight chance it can increase a baby’s risk of SIDS.
Pay attention to the following to avoid the pitfalls of overheating:
If your baby’s ears or toes are red and hot and her
armpits are sweaty, she’s probably too warm and needs
to be dressed more lightly.
You can warm towels, blankets, socks, and hats in the
clothes dryer, with a hair dryer, or in a microwave oven
for thirty seconds. But before you put any heated item on
your baby, always open it up and hold it against your
forearm to make sure it isn’t too hot.
Never microwave any clothing with metallic thread.
Never use an electric blanket or heating pad. These can
overheat babies and expose them to unnecessary
electromagnetic radiation.
In hot weather, swaddle your baby in light wraps.
Four Modern True Path Colic Cures:
A Doctor’s Bag of Tricks

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Although medical problems are not commonly the cause of colic, I
estimate that ten to fifteen percent of extremely fussy babies cry because
of one of four tummy troubles: food allergy, constipation, feeding
problems, or stomach acid reflux.
Children who suffer from these treatable conditions may get some
relief from the 5 “S’s” and the grandmother’s tips discussed earlier;
however, what many of these infants truly need is a medical solution for
their particular difficulty.
Here are a few hints on how to soothe these unhappy infants.
Preventing Food Allergies:
Getting Tummies Back on Track
It’s believed that approximately ten percent of colicky babies cry due
to food sensitivities. Unfortunately, doctors have no accurate test to
check babies for this problem. To discover if your child has a food
allergy, you must play Sherlock Holmes and eliminate foods from your
diet or switch your baby’s formula to see what happens. (Always consult
your doctor before doing so.) It usually only takes two to four days to
see if the crying gets better.
If your baby improves when you eliminate foods from your diet, she
may have a food allergy. However, sometimes this improvement is just a
coincidence. To be sure your child truly has to avoid those foods, I
advise you to wait for the fussiness to be gone for two weeks and then to
eat a spoonful of the suspected food, or feed your baby a half ounce of
the suspected formula. Try this over four to five days; if there’s an
allergy the crying will return.
Most babies with food allergies are allergic to only one or two foods,
with the most common, by far, being cow’s milk and dairy products.