for Children's Health Care

Author: Gao Shuying et al. (Editor-in-Chief)
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Publish Date: 2001-07-01
Features: This book systematically introduces children's health care knowledge and effective methods for preventing and treating diseases, targeting various factors affecting children's health. The book is divided into five parts: Growth and Development, Nutrition, Health Care, Treatment, and Appendix.
The Growth and Development section covers the development of the child's brain, height, weight, motor skills, language, visual and auditory senses, teeth, and age classifications.
The Nutrition section introduces relevant content about children's nutrition.
The Health Care section presents knowledge related to children's health care.
The Treatment section provides effective prevention and treatment methods for 82 common childhood diseases from both Western and Chinese medical perspectives. Each disease is described in the order of overview, treatment, and prevention and health care.
In the overview, key diagnostic points, differentiation points, and pediatric characteristics of the disease are explained.
The treatment section includes Western medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, Chinese patent medicine, single formulas, dietary therapy, external treatment methods, cupping, ear acupuncture, massage, Qigong, physical therapy, psychological therapy, behavioral therapy, surgery, and nursing care.
The prevention and health care section proposes specific prevention methods for each disease.
The Appendix lists commonly used acupuncture points for children, massage points, illustrations, massage techniques, ear acupuncture points, and illustrations, as well as normal reference values for common pediatric tests.