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Health Tip: Help Ease Separation Anxiety at Night

By ariannawmd on November 14, 2013

Some children have trouble falling asleep at night because they fear separation from their parents.

The University of Michigan Health System suggests how to help children cope with this issue:

Allow your child choices during the bedtime routine, such as the order and type of activities.
Set a reasonable bedtime, and a reasonable bedtime routine that precedes it.
Establish firm rules (such as don’t get out of bed), and make sure your child understands them.
Adjust the morning wake time if your child takes a long time to fall asleep.
Talk about the nightly bedtime routine in advance, so kids know what to expect when bedtime comes.

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: Help Ease Separation Anxiety at Night

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