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Health Tip: Starting Baby on Solid Foods

By HealthCast on October 8, 2012

It may seem like a daunting challenge to move baby from breast- or bottle-feeding to solid foods.

The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics offers this advice to help ease the transition:

Choose foods with textures that are easier for baby to swallow.
Start off by feeding baby while sitting on your lap. Then gradually transition to a safe high chair.
Make sure baby sits in a well-supported, upright position so baby can easily explore the food.
Make sure baby sits up straight and looks straight ahead to reduce choking risk.
Speak in a quiet, calm and encouraging voice while baby eats. Avoid overstimulating the infant.

Source: HealthDay

Are You Living with Psoriasis?

A growing knowledge of the skin disease called psoriasis is leading to greater treatment choices, including personalized therapies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reports.

Psoriasis is an immune system disorder that causes overproduction of skin cells, resulting in scaling, pain, swelling, redness and heat. The condition affects about 7.5 million Americans.

“As we better understand the disease, researchers know more about what specific factors to target in order to develop effective treatments,” FDA dermatologist Dr. Melinda McCord said in an agency news release.

There is no cure for psoriasis, so the main goals of treatments are to stop skin cell overproduction and reduce inflammation. Current therapies include medicines applied to the skin (topical), light treatment (phototherapy), or drugs taken by mouth or given by injection.

Doctors used to take a step-by-step approach, starting patients with mild to moderate psoriasis on topical therapy. If that was ineffective, doctors moved on to phototherapy or drug treatment.

Health Tip: Starting Baby on Solid Foods

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