Showing posts with label Drinking Water. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Drinking Water. Show all posts

Friday, 15 July 2011

Mom and Dad


As parents we want the best for our children.  But we also have to choose our battles carefully because they have 1000 times the energy we have and everything can’t be top priority.  Like every parent, you know your children need water to keep their minds and bodies going, but it is difficult to get them to want to drink water.  Headaches, lack of concentration, poor memory and tiredness are often symptoms of children’s dehydration.  Luna and Lara were created to help you in that daily struggle to serve your children’s needs.  Everything about the characters, the website, the music band “The Rubyz”, the artwork, the stories, puzzles and games has been designed to make your children see that drinking water from day to night is fun. During term time, our children spend most of their waking hours at school.  It’s impossible for them to “make up” for their fluid intake when they are back in our care.  That’s why we’re going to schools to encourage them to make water available throughout the school day, even during classes.  We’re doing our part to help your child to stay hydrated from day till night by making drinking water fun as well as essential and healthy. Luna and Lara’s message is right, always drink water from day to night.

Our mission is to make your job easier.  Please let us know how we can do a better job. Meanwhile, we will keep doing our best to educate your child on the importance of drinking water from day till night!

Sunday, 19 June 2011

Mom, I wet the bed...




W-O-W pt.4:  Toilet Troubles

Wiseup-On-Water!  Dehydration can contribute to health problems such as urine infections, bed-wetting, daytime wetting and constipation.  Good hydration is important in the prevention of urinary tract infection (UTI). One per cent of boys and three per cent of girls experience a UTI during the first ten years of life. UTI can be serious in children if it is associated with reflux of urine back up the ureter causing kidney damage. UTIs can also be a cause of bed- or pant-wetting and poor school attendance in older children.(24)  Bed-wetting can also worsen if insufficient fluid is drunk during the day.  This reduces bladder capacity so that the child may not then be able to cope with the compensatory increase in fluids drunk during the evening.(25)

Chronic constipation is a very common complaint affecting 3-8 per cent of children. It is three times more common in prepubescent boys than girls, but this ratio reverses in adolescence.  Inadequate fluid intake is one of the most frequent causes of chronic constipation.(26)  Additional water intake can increase stool frequency when a child’s voluntary fluid consumption is lower-than-normal for their age and activity level.(27)  Preventing constipation is important because this condition is a risk factor for colorectal cancer.(28)

Whether their water comes from a fountain or from a pure Spring in Ireland, Luna and Lara just want your child to be happy and healthy!  So Drink Up and Wiseup-On-Water!

24 The National Kidney Research Fund. What I tell parents
about... UTIs and reflux in children. Reproduced from the
British Journal of Renal Medicine, Autumn 1999, Volume 4,
25 Water is cool in school. FAQ: What's the link between
wetting problems and drinking water?
http://www.wateriscoolinschool.org.uk/faq.html
Water, electrolytes, minerals and trace elements. London:
Chapman & Hall 1997
Chloride and Sulfate (2004) Institute of Medicine of the
National Academies. Washington DC: The National
Academies Press. http://books.nap.edu/catalog/10925.html
26 Arnaud MJ. Mild dehydration: a risk factor of constipation?
European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 2003;57(Suppl 2):S88-95
27 Young RJ, Beerman LE and Vanderhoof. Increasing oral fluid
in chronic constipation in children. Gastroenterology Nursing
1998;21:156-61
28 Sonnenberg A, Muller AD. Constipation and cathartics as risk
factors of colorectal cancer: a meta-analysis. Pharmacology
1993;47(Suppl 1):224-33