| PARENT TO PARENT: Baby's night waking might have hidden medical cause
Q. I'm having trouble getting my 9-month-old to sleep through the night. She has always gone down for the night with no problem, until she turned about 8 months old. She is waking up every hour screaming. She is not hungry and does not have gas. I am at my wits' end. a mother in Fayetteville If your baby is crying all through the night, talk to your primary-care physician about a possible hidden medical problem. What's at the root of a baby's sudden change? Parents who have made it through similar, upsetting nights reported diverse causes: ear infections, urinary-tract infections, gastroesophageal reflux causing heartburn-like symptoms, milk allergies, teething and anemia. Be a sleuth. For example, when a child is too little to say "my ear hurts," caregivers have to look for signs of an ear infection, including trouble sleeping, crying more often and tugging at the ears.
Consumer Reports Reviews TV Advertised Drugs
(CBS4) BOSTON The pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars a year advertising drugs directly to people like you, but as you're about to see, you need to beware. Consumer Reports says the most highly promoted drugs aren't necessarily your best choice.TV Commercial: You'd have to have been in a deep sleep to.Have you missed commercials with the Lunesta butterfly?TV Commerical: "Lunesta helps you fall asleep quickly."Lunesta is the most heavily advertised prescription drug, but plenty of others get air time, like the acid reflux drug Nexium.TV Commercial: "Want to just feel better? I am better."And the asthma medication AdvairTV Commercial: "Advair is the one controller that treats the two main causes of asthma symptoms."Those ad campaigns are reaching their target audience, says Dr.
DELHI DIARY
Mumbai, which prides itself as being a cosmopolitan city, seems to be having second thoughts. Going by the latest civic polls results, India's most important financial hub is clearly turning the fundamentalist way.
The Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party of Sharad Pawar, which claim to be part of the secular formation in Indian politics, generally lost the civic polls conducted across the state to the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance. This despite the Shiv Sena itself getting fragmented over the past couple of years.
What is significant is that the Shiv Sena-BJP alliance emerged as the largest combine within striking distance of a simple majority in Mumbai. The Congress has been a big loser in every way.
The NCP emerged as a clear winner in the Pune region while the Congress had to satisfy itself with the Vidharbha region.
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