How can I take my baby to the doctor efficiently? When your baby needs to see a doctor, know how to effectively communicate with the doctor and how to make your baby cooperate with the doctor’s examination and see the doctor more efficiently. 1. Make an appointment and choose the right hospital and doctor (1) Make sure the hospital you are going to has a pediatric department and a pediatric ward: some hospitals do not have a pediatric department, some have a pediatric clinic but no pediatric ward, and some have a pediatric department that sees patients during the day but not at night, so parents need to know clearly to avoid making a trip for nothing. In addition, parents should try to choose a hospital they are familiar with, so that the process of seeing a doctor will be much smoother. (2) Advance appointment or registration: Nowadays, many hospitals have opened online appointment or telephone appointment, parents can make a good appointment in advance, sometimes some doctors’ numbers are difficult to book, so they should prepare for the appointment in advance; some hospitals need to register, so parents had better register in advance or ask relatives or friends who are close to the hospital to register a number; to avoid not having an appointment or registering to the hospital, the doctor will not accept the appointment. However, if the baby’s condition is critical, go to the hospital as soon as possible, the general hospital will have a green channel, the doctor will also according to the baby’s situation emergency treatment. (3) According to the baby’s performance and parents need the doctor to solve the problem of the corresponding doctor, the current children’s hospital is divided into departments, parents can choose the appropriate department according to the baby’s symptoms, if the baby cough can see the children’s respiratory department, such as children’s convulsions can see the pediatric neurology, of course, some hospitals are not divided into departments of pediatrics, parents should also pay more attention, sometimes children’s eye problems to see a special ophthalmology, skin problems to see the dermatology, if the baby’s condition is urgent. If you choose the wrong doctor, you will not be able to see the wrong department, and you will have to register again. (4) Choosing a pediatrician: You can ask neighbors, colleagues and classmates if they have any recommended pediatricians and what is the reputation of the doctor. The pediatrician you choose should have a good rapport, good professional ability and effective power, but of course sometimes it is difficult for parents to know the specifics of the doctor. 2. Bring supplies for your baby’s visit (1) Bring an extra set of clothes for emergencies, another diaper, and a blanket. (2) Smaller babies should have bottles and milk powder, and older babies should bring something to eat and drink. (3) You can bring some toys or supplies that your baby usually plays with. (4) The baby’s medical records, previous examinations, such as chest X-ray, blood tests; the baby’s current medication, health care booklet, vaccination booklet, insurance. (5) Parents of babies with fever should bring their own fever-reducing medicine. (3) How to make the baby cooperate with the doctor’s examination (1) It is best to let the baby eat well before the examination, so that the baby will not cry and quarrel due to hunger during the examination. (2) Try to give the baby to wear loose, buttoned clothes to facilitate the doctor’s examination. (3) Usually you can let your baby watch some books or videos about body check-ups. (4) role play, scenario prep, tell your baby in advance that the doctor will look at the baby’s mouth, how to open the baby’s mouth to cooperate, you can also buy a set of doctor toys, and baby play the doctor’s visit game. (5) Appropriate rewards for the baby, such as telling the baby, if you cooperate with the doctor’s examination can be rewarded to buy toys or goodies. (6) When the doctor examines the baby parents should also relax and try to behave calmly, the baby will feel the parents’ tension. (7) You can tell the baby to let the doctor look at mommy and daddy first, and then look at the baby; you can also bring some dolls or other dolls to cooperate with the doctor’s examination, and the doctor will check the baby after checking the dolls first. (8) When the baby is very nervous, you can pick up the baby. (9) Usually don’t use “doctor or nurse to inject” to scare the baby. 4, how to communicate effectively with the doctor (1) give the doctor full understanding and respect. (2) Let the parent who knows the most about the baby’s condition communicate with the doctor, the baby’s condition should be expressed clearly, such as when the fever started, the change of temperature, the situation of taking antipyretic medicine, and whether there are other accompanying symptoms; the baby’s spirit, sleep, appetite, urination and defecation; genetic history, such as sericea; allergy history; whether there has been contact with sick people. (3) Do your homework in advance and write down the questions you want to ask the doctor in order of importance so that you don’t remember that you didn’t ask some questions after the doctor’s visit. (4) Take the initiative to put together a record of your baby’s previous visits to the doctor for reference, and if you are using medication, show the doctor the medication your baby is currently using. (5) The rash, stool, cough and breathing can be filmed for the doctor to see, more visual. (6) Do not take the lead, such as “I think the baby is pneumonia”, the doctor will judge the baby’s condition. 5.What will the doctor do? (1) Ask the whole process of the baby’s illness and the parents’ most concerned issues. (2) Do a physical examination of the baby, such as auscultation. (3) According to the baby’s medical history and physical examination, prescribe the appropriate tests, such as blood routine, urine culture, chest X-ray, etc. (4) Based on the baby’s medical history, physical examination and laboratory tests, the initial diagnosis of the baby’s disease will be made. (5) Determine the treatment plan based on the initial diagnosis, hospitalization, infusion, medication, and nebulization. (6) Determine the follow-up plan and prescribe the tests needed for the follow-up. (6) How parents cooperate with the doctor’s treatment (1) Listen carefully to the doctor’s treatment recommendations, and ask the doctor when the baby needs a follow-up or when to follow-up, and ask again in time if you do not understand. (2) Take the medicine to find out how to use all the drugs and dosage, if you do not understand timely ask the pharmacist or doctor. (3) Implement the treatment plan, medication and nebulization for the baby as prescribed by the doctor. (4) The doctor and the parents are cooperative relationship, the doctor gives the baby treatment plan, the parents cooperate to implement the doctor’s plan; parents and the baby is the relationship of compliance, parents should let the baby accept the doctor’s treatment plan, such as the prescribed medicine to the baby to eat, prescribed nebulized medicine to the baby to do. 7, how to make the baby cooperate with the medicine (1) do the disguise, if you can put the medicine into the food that the baby likes to eat, or add some sugar or juice to the medicine. (2) Give your baby something cold before taking the medicine, such as ice cream or a glass of yogurt, which can numb the tongue for a while, and then give the baby the medicine. (3) Use a spoon, syringe or dropper to give the medicine. (4) Try not to deceive the baby, such as telling the baby “you eat not medicine, it is sugar”, may be the first successful deception, but generally do not want to successfully deceive the second. 8.How to evaluate the effect of treatment (1) The improvement of the baby’s symptoms after treatment, such as whether the fever has gone down, whether the cough has been reduced, the improvement of diarrhea, etc. (2) parents are most likely to observe the improvement of the baby’s spirit and appetite, the improvement of the spirit is very critical. (1) Parents should know that recovery from many diseases requires a process, for example, fever caused by viral infections generally lasts 3 to 5 days, cold symptoms generally last about 2 weeks, diarrhea generally lasts about 1 week. (2) Find a doctor for follow-up: It is best to find the baby’s first doctor for follow-up, try not to keep changing the doctor for the child, think that the doctor did not look good at one time, think that this doctor does not work, immediately change the doctor to see, so on, each time the child to see the doctor is the initial diagnosis, and this doctor have to start from a new diagnosis and treatment. If you go back to the doctor who saw your baby during the first consultation, the doctor will adjust the treatment plan in time if the treatment is not good, and the doctor will feel that the parents trust him and will be more attentive to the baby. (3) The doctor will change the treatment plan according to the change of the baby’s condition, such as requesting the baby to be hospitalized if he thinks the outpatient treatment is not effective. 10, parents and doctors have a conflict of opinion how to do First of all, we must believe that most doctors want to cure their own patients, this and parents hope that the baby’s disease as soon as possible is the same, many doctors are concerned about their reputation, parents choose a doctor to give the doctor full trust, if you choose a doctor are not trusted, then the treatment effect will be greatly reduced, it is better not to see. The conflict of opinion with the doctor can be a conflict of parenting philosophy, but not a conflict of treatment, because the doctor is the professional. The doctor is responsible for the treatment plan, and the parents are responsible for the care of the baby and the implementation of the doctor’s treatment plan. 11, how to do the conflict of opinion between family members When you take your baby to the doctor, there is sometimes a conflict of opinion between the parents of the baby, parents and the elderly in the family, especially between young people and the elderly on the baby to see the doctor is still a lot of conflict. In fact, the starting point of everyone in the family is the same, all want the baby’s disease to get the appropriate treatment as soon as possible after recovery, then try not to quarrel, not to mention in the doctor’s office on the big fight, because not only will affect the feelings between the family, but also affect the doctor’s treatment of the baby.