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Home care practices for neonatal problems suggested in focus group discussions |
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| Neonatal problem |
Dietary remedy |
Other practices |
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| Not crying |
Cold water sprinkled on baby. |
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| Metal plates beaten close by. |
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| Baby held by hands or turned upside down and shaken. |
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| Not breathing |
Umbilical cord milked from placenta towards baby. |
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| Cold |
Ground nutmeg [warming properties]. |
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| Not feeding |
Ghee [clarified butter] until baby can breastfeed. |
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| Expressed breastmilk until baby can breastfeed. |
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| Fever |
Cooked parsley and fenugreek. |
Mother avoids spicy, salty and oily foods. |
| Baby kept warm. |
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| Eye infection |
Eyeliner applied [fenugreek, mustard oil and camphor]. |
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| Umbilical cord infection |
Warm mustard oil applied locally. |
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| Diarrhoea |
Baby massaged with warm oil and ash. |
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| Jaundice |
Yellow climbing plant placed on floor near baby. |
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| Same plant may be ground and fed to baby. |
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| Chest problems, cough, breathing difficulties |
Heated camphor, cow's milk, ghee and ginger. |
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| Ground nutmeg and groundnut mixed with breastmilk. |
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| Wounds |
Ground groundnut, pumpkin and cucumber seed. |
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Mesko et al. BMC International Health and Human Rights 2003 3:3 doi:10.1186/1472-698X-3-3 |
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