WHAT TO MAKE OUT OF THE CRYING CHILD?

Normal Crying:

“Crying child gets the milk” (mGj ãçis ghä FoÑFÛ) so goes the saying.

Infants normally cry to communicate hunger, thirst, discomfort, tiredness, or even loneliness. Mothers are normally conversant with these situations and take due care of the childs requirements.

Excessive Crying:

However excessive crying may suggest a disorder and require treatment. Excessive crying may be due to the following common causes:

Discomfort due to wet, dirty diaper.
Pain due to abrasive and tight fitting diaper or even a pin-prick somewhere.
Excessive gas or exposure to chillness or heat
Major or Minor illnesses.
Infection (if crying is accompanied by irritability, lethargy, poor appetite or fever)
Being awakened from process of falling asleep, due to jerks or noises.
Teething
Colic
Separation Anxiety. This is common in cases of working mothers

      I may add here a known case where a school-going urchin excessively cried when getting dressed up. Mother took it as usual resistance to going to school. She beat and forced the child into the school bus. Message came within a few hours from the school that the child swooned in the class. Mother rushed to school to find the child dead! On removing one of the shoes, a black Scorpion was found inside, half-dead. Scorpion stings are lethal to children. The mother lost her child as she failed to understand the cries of the child in time.

Lesson:

Excessive crying of a child requires sympathetic attention and prompt treatment.

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