Article: Signs that your baby should be seen by a doctor include:  Symptoms of infection, such as bleeding, pus oozing from below the scales, or extreme redness, pain, or fever. Swelling and severe itching causing the baby to scratch. This may be a symptom of another skin condition called eczema.  Cradle cap occurring on areas of the body other than the scalp, particularly the face. If your baby’s cradle cap becomes infected or very inflamed or itchy, the doctor may prescribe one or more of the following to treat the infection and reduce inflammation:  Antibiotics Antifungal cream A dandruff shampoo containing tar, antifungal medications such as ketoconazole, or selenium sulfide A mild steroid cream such as hydrocortisone 1% cream Steroid creams, antifungal medications, or dandruff shampoos containing salicylic acid may be dangerous for the baby when absorbed through the skin. Your doctor may recommend steroid creams or antifungal medications in some cases, and you should always follow her instructions.  Dandruff shampoos containing salicylic acid are never used on babies. Also consult your doctor before applying natural remedies with medicinal properties, like Calendula. Calendula is antiseptic and anti-inflammatory, but talk to your doctor before applying it to a baby.
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Seek medical advice if home care does not help or your baby’s condition worsens. Follow any treatment prescribed by the doctor. Do not use over-the-counter medications without consulting a doctor.
Article: When you are recovering from depression it is especially important to get professional help in order to help ensure that the gloomy mood does not return, or that it is less severe if it does. Thus, if you have already been attending treatment continue working on your treatment plan.  If you already have a therapist, discuss new goals that you’d like to work on. Make sure you follow through and continue attending your appointments. If you don’t have a therapist to help treat your depression, try it. This can be useful even if you aren’t currently feeling depressed. A therapist or psychologist can help you reduce the likelihood of worsening depression by using specific interventions, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), which help to change your thinking to promote lasting well-being.  Continue seeing your psychiatrist and taking medication as prescribed. Talk to a medical doctor about your health, diet, and exercise. Addiction can worsen the symptoms of depression, making recovery difficult. Whether it be substances, food, gambling, shopping, self-harm, sex, or eating disorders, you can get specialized addiction counseling. It may be necessary to treat the depression and addiction simultaneously, as depression and addiction are often closely linked.  One way to seek help is to speak with your medical doctor, therapist, or psychiatrist. They can give you a referral for chemical dependency treatment. Some therapists even specialize in drug treatment. You can participate in outpatient treatment or inpatient treatment (drug rehab). You can also seek help by joining a 12-step group such as Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A) or Narcotics Anonymous (N.A).  Recovery from any addiction takes time, but it will be worth it in the end and will help to support your overall health and reduce your depression. Sometimes during a bout of depression people can lose contact with important friends, family members, and other interpersonal relationships. However, social support is so important to maintaining a depression-free lifestyle, reducing the likelihood that depression will re-occur, and bouncing back from difficult life situations.  Send an email, text, card or letter asking how your friend is doing. Focus on the positive things you're doing in your life, and ask questions. Phone a friend and invite her to meet up for lunch or a coffee. Social support, especially support from others that are in your same position, can be extremely useful in recovering from depression and continuing to maintain a healthy outlook. After a depression you may feel well enough to cultivate new relationships, especially if you have discarded damaging or unproductive friendships. By doing the things you are interested in, you may be able to meet people with the same interests and similar personalities.  Join a church, club, sport team, community college, neighborhood center class, charity, etc. Try Meetup.com, which is a useful website for finding groups of like-minded people with similar interests. Some examples include: singles groups, hiking groups, acting troupes, and rock-climbing enthusiasts. Can't find the right group or club? You can start your own! Try starting a book club. Spread the word amongst friends and acquaintances, put ads up at local libraries, and ask everyone to bring a small plate to share. Or, you could start a fitness club and meet at a park and pay for a personal trainer, splitting the cost between the group. Whenever you receive a social invitation, try to say yes. The more times you say yes, the more invites you might receive. Also, for every time a friend invites you to do something, invite them to something the following week. This keeps the balance equal and you both feel valued.
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Get professional support. Seek help if an addiction is affecting your life. Reconnect. Join a support group. Make new friends.
Article: The release found from self-harm is short-lived. Soon enough, painful emotions like guilt or shame creep in and prompt the need to self-harm again. This addictive, cycling quality of self-injury is partly why it is so dangerous. You may start to lose control and do more damage than you intended or actually attempt suicide.  What's more, mental illnesses like eating disorders as well as alcohol and substance abuse may further reduce self-control and intensify the damage of self-injury.  This behavior can expose you to bigger problems down the line. The only way to overcome self-harm is learn to cope with your emotions. The burden of keeping self-harm to yourself can become lonely. Once you accept that you need help, it's important to think about a supportive person who you can talk to. Perhaps you can choose someone with whom you have shared confidential information in the past without the person gossiping or judging you. Let your friend know that you need to talk. Try to have such a conversation face-to-face. Explain why you are telling her/him this, how you feel, and allow her/him to process the information. You might say something like this "I have been keeping this secret for a long time and you're the only person I feel comfortable sharing it with. I have been hurting myself. It's getting worse, and I'm scared. Please help me". If you do not have anyone close to confide in, you can talk to your school counselor, a teacher, a coach, a religious leader, a friend's parent, or your family doctor. Any of these individuals should be able to offer you support and refer you to a mental health profession in your area who has experience with self-injury. Once you have identified a therapist who might be a good fit for you, set up an appointment. One type of effective treatment strategy for self-injury is dialectical behavior therapy which focuses on teaching you to regulate your emotions, manage and tolerate life stressors, practice mindfulness, and improve your interpersonal functioning.  In the first session, you can expect for the therapist to ask you basic questions about your behaviors, thoughts and feelings. He will also try to learn more about you - your life, your school/work, your family, and your background - in order to personalize treatment to fit your unique circumstances.  Some adolescents may also benefit from taking part in family therapy which strives to identify barriers to your recovery and assists family members with understanding what you are going through and being more supportive. Feeling disconnected and alone in your suffering is common with self-injury. Getting involved in a local or online support group that enables you to talk with other teens who are going through the same thing can give you hope and make you feel less isolated. One particularly effective support group is called S.A.F.E., which stands for Self-Abuse Finally ends. Find a support group in your area.
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Understand why you should stop. Confide in someone you trust. Seek help. Participate in therapy. Join a support group.