Dr.Promilla Butani Pediatrics Practice

For a child every experience is a new experience. Different experiences and stages in life Build different perceptions in their minds. There is a really fine line between a child throwing tantrums and a child with symptoms of mental health problems. A number of times, these behavioural changes are recognized only as a stage of a child’s growth by a lot of parents but ignorance is not always bliss. If you just brush it off and your child’s behaviour actually has its roots in a mental illness, you’re only allowing it to grow. Most commonly occurring mental health problems in children are: 1 . Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) 2 . Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) 3 . Conduct disorder (CO) 4 . Mood and anxiety disorders like depression or bipolar disorder 5 . Schizophrenia 6 . Eating Disorders like anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge-eating Dr. Promilla Butani always insists, knowing the triggers and causes of mental illness are critically essential jus...

Dr. Butani’s Best Pediatrician in Delhi offers pediatric as well as maternal care services. She provides a vast range of pediatric treatments, Counselling of parents and adolescents. Here’s Dr. Butani’s advice on transitioning your baby to solid foods. The first food for infants is breast milk but when your infant grows 1 year old, it is necessary that you start giving solid foods to them. However, milk should remain an important part of our diet throughout the life as it is a source of various essential nutrients. Just like you need to keep some points in mind while breastfeeding (Read our blog ‘Importance and The Ways of Breast Feeding by Pediatrician Dr. Promilla Butani’) you need to pay attention to a few things before you start giving solid foods to you baby. When is the right time? When the baby is between the age of 4-6 months parents are advised to start giving solid foods to them. Generally, babies smaller than that age have a tendency to push out the foods with the...

 Most of us know Tonsils as a throat disease. While, actually Tonsils are a part of our mouth at the back of our throat on both left and right side. Tonsils fight germs to prevent infection and keep your body healthy. But, when these tonsils catch infection from some bacteria or virus it causes ‘Tonsillitis’. So, here is a guide to deal with your kid’s Tonsillitis by Dr. Promilla Butani, a child care specialist in South Delhi . Symptoms of Tonsillitis Tonsillitis is a common and very painful condition in kids. Children are more prone to it. It makes difficult for you to swallow or eat or drink due to following symptoms: Sometimes, a pale white coating can be seen on the tonsils, which is a sign of infection. If you have Tonsillitis, your tonsils may have redness and will be swollen Tonsillitis makes the glands in your neck become swollen Children usually catch fever if they are suffering from Tonsillitis Tonsillitis causes bad breath Tonsillitis is an irritating condition which...

Dr. Butani’s Best Pediatrician in Delhi offers pediatric as well as maternal care services. She provides a vast range of pediatric treatments, Counselling of parents and adolescents. Here’s Dr. Butani’s advice on transitioning your baby to solid foods. The first food for infants is breast milk but when your infant grows 1 year old, it is necessary that you start giving solid foods to them. However, milk should remain an important part of our diet throughout the life as it is a source of various essential nutrients. Just like you need to keep some points in mind while breastfeeding (Read our blog ‘Importance and The Ways of Breast Feeding by Pediatrician Dr. Promilla Butani’) you need to pay attention to a few things before you start giving solid foods to you baby. When is the right time? When the baby is between the age of 4-6 months parents are advised to start giving solid foods to them. Generally, babies smaller than that age have a tendency to push out the foods with thei...

Dr. Butani’s Best Pediatrician in Delhi offers pediatric as well as maternal care services. She provides a vast range of pediatric treatments, Counselling of parents and adolescents. Here’s Dr. Butani’s advice on transitioning your baby to solid foods. The first food for infants is breast milk but when your infant grows 1 year old, it is necessary that you start giving solid foods to them. However, milk should remain an important part of our diet throughout the life as it is a source of various essential nutrients. Just like you need to keep some points in mind while breastfeeding (Read our blog ‘Importance and The Ways of Breast Feeding by Pediatrician Dr. Promilla Butani’) you need to pay attention to a few things before you start giving solid foods to you baby. When is the right time? When the baby is between the age of 4-6 months parents are advised to start giving solid foods to them. Generally, babies smaller than that age have a tendency to push out the foods with their t...

Breast feeding is an emotional subject. It is linked to the basic events of life and its difficult not to be touched by it in some way. The merits of breast feeding are widely recognized. Jargons like “Breast is best” and “Breast feed is the Baby’s right” are being used to promote the un ageing practice of breast feeding amongst all mothers rich or poor, urban or rural. Our grandmothers and great, great grandmothers managed to breast feed and our counterparts in traditional rural societies still do so. Today’s mothers have to rediscover this knowledge with our help. The modern ‘era’ of artificial feeding dates back to the beginning of the century. There was this woman’s desire to be relieved of the “chore” of breast feeding and also equally importantly another key factor was the woman’s rapid loss of confidence in the ability to do so. Old customs are abandoned. The extended family is replaced by small nuclear families, feeding bottles and powders are readily available and ...

Summer of 1972 – I, a house surgeon in the pediatric ward of Safdarjung Hospital, Delhi, on a twenty four hour duty. It was the night before our emergency day – So the ward was relatively quiet – as most beds had been vacant in anticipation of the heavy rush of admission, the next day. There was just one acutely sick child in the ward with broncho pneumonia who was battling for life. He suddenly took a turn for the worse and died despite all resuscitative efforts. One heavy emergency days – there was no time to think about the dead leave aside console the family or mourn or grieve. Death was common place occurring and turnover was so quick that before one could even think there was another sick infant there.     The night was different – every one was upset in the ward but there was no time to ponder over his death because the child’s anguished father turned hysterical, became abusive and was on the verge of assaulting my physically. I was saved fro...