Mengatasi Saluran ASI Tersumbat

Saluran ASI bisa tersumbat jika saluran susu tidak mengalami pengosongan dengan baik, misalnya akibat posisi menyusui tidak bervariasi, Anda sibuk atau stres sehingga bayi tidak disusui dengan teratur, bayi tidur sepanjang malam sehingga melewati waktu menyusu, BH terlalu ketat atau alat bantu gendong bayi menekan payudara.

Bila saluran ASI tersumbat, timbul gejala sakit, bengkak, bagian payudara mengeras dan kulit payudara memerah. Penyumbatan yang tidak ditanggulangi bisa mencetus radang payudara atau mastitis. 

Solusi:

• Terus menyusui dan susui bayi terlebih dulu di payudara yang saluran ASI-nya tersumbat, karena saat lapar ia akan mengisap dengan kuat.
• Lakukan pijatan untuk melonggarkan sumbatan yang terjadi.
• Hindari memakai BH ketat atau berkawat.
• Terkadang saluran ASI yang tersumbat dihubungkan dengan adanya bisul kecil di ujung puting susu. Konsultasikan ke dokter.
• Bila saluran ASI tetap tersumbat hingga 48 jam, ke dokter.

Apakah Bayi Perlu Tidur Pakai Bantal?

Tanya: Saya tidak pernah menggunakan bantal pada anak saya (2 bulan) untuk menghindari SIDS (suddently infant death syndrome). Tapi, sebuah artikel mengatakan bahwa bayi yang kepalanya peang karena posisi tidurnya, memiliki risiko lebih tinggi mengalami infeksi telinga.

Jawab: Bayi berusia 2 bulan umumnya masih bisa tidur tanpa harus menggunakan bantal. Dia dapat tidur nyenyak dengan berbagai posisi tanpa harus diganjal dengan sesuatu di leher atau kepalanya. Beberapa bayi memang merasa nyaman dengan penggunaan bantal, tapi sebagian lainnya justru malah terganggu.

Beberapa ahli menyarankan penggunaan bantal, termasuk yang berlubang tengahnya, dengan tujuan memfiksasi tidurnya bayi agar tidak berubah posisi menjadi tengkurap. Tidur tengkurap menurut kajian ilmiah justru akan meningkatkan risiko terjadinya SIDS.

Memang betul ada artikel yang dipublikasikan Journal of Craniofacial Surgery edisi September 2009, dimana para peneliti di Wake Forest University Medical Center di North Carolina menemukan bahwa pada anak-anak dengan bentuk kepala datar yang parah (plagiocephaly posisional), 50% diantaranya mengalami infeksi telinga tengah pada usia kurang dari 1 tahun. Mereka pun menyimpulkan ada hubungan antara plagiocephaly dengan risiko terjadinya infeksi di telinga.

Tapi berdasarkan Evidence Base Medicine (EBM), penelitian ini mempunyai level of evidence yang rendah karena penelitiannya berupa kuesioner, dengan kategori rekomendasinya: No Recommendation. Hasil penelitian yang nilainya seperti ini tidak bisa dijadikan pegangan atau pedoman.

Jadi menurut saya, posisi tidur terbaik untuk bayi Bapak adalah disesuaikan dengan kemauan si bayi. Bila dia sudah nyaman tidur telentang tanpa bantal, sementara kondisinya baik-baik saja dan tidurnya juga nyenyak, itulah yang terbaik buatnya.

dr. Ari Prayitno, SpA

Tip Memilih Bantal Sofa

Bantal yang terdapat pada sofa atau kursi memang ukurannya tidak besar. Namun perannya dalan ruang cukup penting.

Bantal yang menarik akan menjadi pusat perhatian ruang. Untuk memilih bantal yang tepat, perhatikan hal-hal berikut.

-          Sesuaikan model furnitur dengan ukuran dan bentuk bantal. Sofa yang besar dan lebar cocok disandingkan dengan bantal yang juga berukuran besar.

Tetapi kursi ramping tanpa sandaran akan lebih pas dengan bantal panjang yang bentuknya menyerupai guling.

-          Padukan warna sarung bantal dengan skema warna ruang secara keseluruhan.

Warna bantal tidak harus sama dengan warna perabot. Bantal ini justru dapat menjadi aksen di ruang yang tampil senada.

Misalnya ruang kecokelatan diberi aksen bantal oranye atau merah.

-          Perhatikan motif yang ada pada ruang.

Selain bantal, gorden dan sofa umumnya memiliki motif sendiri.

Pada ruang yang sudah teralalu banyak motif, bantal sebaiknya polos agar ruang tidak terkesan ramai.

Sebaliknya, di ruang yang polos, bantal bermotif dapat menjadi pencuri perhatian.

The Lost Temple

In 1999 and 2005, our Games of the Year were Torres and Australia, respectively. Superb design partners Wolfgang Kramer and Michael Kiesling have again found the key to success in a very competitive year. 

Their latest multi-choice masterpiece has that wide appeal we demand from our top selection.

Your archaeologist starts outside an emerging Temple with several outer hexagonal rooms already excavated. Incongruously, you need keys matching door colors to enter recently excavated rooms.

Seed the six sites along the board’s flanking river with facedown random tiles. Sail clockwise on the river. 

New Super Mario Bros.

Nintendo, www.nintendo.com; DS $35; Rated: E
 

Mario shot to stardom as a flat sprite hopping and bopping his way through side-scrolling 2D levels. Only later did he leave the two-dimensional platform realm behind to lead the charge into console 3D action/adventure gaming with Mario 64. 

Since then, with the exception of some retro titles and GameBoy ports, Mario and brother Luigi have led the swashbuckling lives of 3D adventure characters, exploring imaginary lands and taking on daring missions.

It’s Time To Go Invisible

Kodak, let us admit, is doomed. Founded over a century ago, it has dominated film for as long as film has existed, but now that film is on the verge of ceasing to exist, they have very little to dominate.

They’re short on cash and while they deny plans to file for bankruptcy, many question whether they will have the luxury of choice a few years from now.

My first preference for the preservation of this company would be for them to sell off their patents and focus on film until they’re buried by progress. That’d be Kodak going out with its boots on, so to speak. But I doubt that’s going to happen.

What needs to happen instead is Kodak needs to abandon any pretense of being a household word.

They’ve had a good run — for an entire century their name has been synonymous with film. But it will never be as recognizable again.

So why throw money away on an entire division creating low-margin, unoriginal devices that are going to be obsolete in a few months and duplicated by pirate OEMs anyway? No, Kodak needs to go invisible.

For a long time Kodak was the leader in photographic innovation. They even invented their own destroyer, a la Oedipus Rex: they were among the first producing digital cameras. Why aren’t they now? Why is the sensor inside the iPhone 4S a Sony instead of a Kodak?

Listen, Kodak. I like a couple of your cameras.

That’s not the issue. The issue is that you’re selling a product that everyone gets for free when they buy a smartphone, digital picture frames are a joke, and printing is becoming more and more something that happens in a ShutterFly facility, not at home — if it happens at all. Producing products is for companies like Apple and Canon. You don’t want to compete with them.

And you don’t have to. You’ve got top-notch research facilities churning out patents and inventions all over the place. Pick a few niches and become indispensible.

I’m not quite saying be a patent troll. I’m saying you should be the ones HTC goes to when they want to get an edge over the rest in the camera department.

What will you make? Low-noise sensors? Image compression algorithms? Lens coatings? High-speed imaging interface? I don’t know.

Just pick something other than a heap of consumer products in the process of being eliminated by the march of progress. You don’t see IBM trying to compete with Dell.

One thing: in order to keep the Kodak brand alive, you should always be in the business of making real things. But make the printer head, not the printer.

Make the sensor, not the camera. Make it clear that if it’s not powered by Kodak, it’s a piece of junk.

You’ve already been half-forced to this position, so just go all the way. You don’t need the trappings of a consumer tech company weighing you down.

ou’re Kodak, for god’s sake. Act like it.
If all goes well, you’ll emerge from these hard times a leaner, more focused company, with a sack full of amazing patents and a stable of clients who wouldn’t be able to compete without your technology. Is it a fantasy?

Sure. But it’s better than the dreary, prosaic reality you’re living in now. At least strike out swinging.

Apple says only iPhones are iPhony enough By David Gianatasio

"If you don't have an iPhone, you don't have an iPhone." OK, I'll buy that.

Which is exactly the response Apple's hoping for with this logical (and slightly pompous) proposition in a trio of new spots.

The new work continues in the familiar style of previous ads, presenting soothing white backgrounds and shots of fingers manipulating the device's touchscreen and a piano-pop soundtrack.

The ads focus on what you don't get when you buy another smartphone, like the app store, iBooks and iTunes+iPod music/video features.

But one benefit they surprisingly don't point out is that — unlike another device I could name the iPhone 4