Dr Anjali Tendulkar & Sachin Tendulkar Launches Health Book “Even when there is a doctor” for Parents
“Even when there is a doctor”- A healthy head start for tiny tots!!
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DR.Rajesh Chokhani ,Dr Anjali Tendulkar & Sachin Tendulkar, Dr. Yashwant Amdekar, and Krishnan Sivaramakrishnan |
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Cricketer Sachin Tendulkar & Dr Anjali Tendulkar releases book on child
health care named “Even when there is a doctor”- Written
by Dr. Yashwant Amdekar along with Dr Rajesh Chokhani and Krishnan
Sivaramakrishnan at MIG club, Bandra. The book
is about a role of an individual or parents in child health care. It
emphasises
that parents must promote good health in their children empowered with adequate
information. In effect, parents must partner with doctors to maintain sound
health of their children. They
need guidance to maintain their children’s health and also act appropriately
during illness.
Now-a-day’s kids are less
healthy than their parents were when they were young. Researchers from the WHO
(World Health Organization) suggest that 8 out of 10 children globally may
be either malnourished or overweight — only the remainder 2 may have
normal weight. Earlier lifestyle was more conducive to health: children ate
homemade food, played outdoors, and were more active.
Today’s lifestyle, with all its
conveniences, is more sedentary. Medical practice too has changed. Before
medical care was about simple medication, managing disease with minimal
medicine, good food, rest and hygiene. Today medical care is about many investigations,
strong medicine and fast results. Earlier, left to its own, the normal was good
health. Now, left to its own, the normal is obesity, lifestyle disease, and
drug-resistant illness.
This book is divided in two
sections – first section deals with maintenance of health and second with
restoration of health. Health has five components – physical, mental, social,
emotional and spiritual and is maintained through balanced nutrition, ideal
physical exercise, adequate sleep, proper hygiene and socially accepted
behaviour. This is possible only if right habits are inculcated at right time
in early life.
Dr Y K
Amdekar, Senior Paediatrician & Medical Director of Wadia Hospital Author
says, “Parents and doctors will
have to work together to make a positive change. The case is strong for every
mother or father to learn how to preserve health so that children don’t fall
sick, and if they do how to take care of their minor illnesses. And it is also
important for doctors to empower parents with that knowledge.”
“The book reminds us that
proper care during the first 1000 days of life is crucial for subsequent good
health. And since the seeds of many adult diseases are sown in early life, it
is vital that children get a healthy headstart.” says Dr Amdekar.
Dr Rajesh
Chokhani, Senior Paediatrician and Co-Author says“This book aims at empowering
parents to achieve good health in children through ideal parenting and also
partner with doctors to restore health during inevitable illnesses. When their
children’s health is disturbed, most of them feel their duty ends by putting
across their problems to the doctor. The doctors, on their part, are apparently
busy treating sick children and therefore, have little time to give advice to
promote health. Unfortunately, then, most doctors become disease managers, not
health providers.”
Krishnan Sivaramakrishnan,
Co-Author, says “The book aims to give parents guiding principles to answer
their most common queries and doubts on such issues. It
empowers every mother or father to give safe first aid for children’s minor
illnesses in their own homes. In clear and simple language it teaches them to
distinguish between illness they can take care of in their homes and illness
that demands a visit to a doctor.
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