Apps to form good habits
Educate children about brushing their teeth, make them discover the flavors of vegetables, update their vaccinations, control their growth… All this is now possible thanks to apps found on smartphones or tablets. In addition to the prevention aspect, these applications make it possible to improve care in the event of pathology thanks to reliable data to adapt the treatment.
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“Brush your teeth with Ben the koala” : an app to be up to date on oral hygiene.
” Growth “ : to monitor your child’s growth (graphs, WHO statistics).
“MyVaccines” : to easily manage your vaccination record.
“Lili and the magic vegetable garden” : stories, quizzes and games to make them aware of the virtues of vegetables.
Available for free on the AppStore
Connected objects
Another way to monitor your little one’s health: use connected objects ! These tools make it possible to save data over the years. The most useful:
Connected toothbrushes
Equipped with Bluetooth or connected to a smartphone, they deliver brushing advice, record the oral activity of the child using sensors and distribute congratulations as soon as it progresses. Animations and games are also in order: brushing your teeth then becomes part of the fun!
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Oral B, Kolibree and Rainbow (You can find them on the Internet (rue du commerce, price minister, amazon etc., around 40€).
Connected scales
Increasingly efficient, these now make it possible to measure the weight, fat mass, water and muscle level of your child. They can also set weight loss or weight gain goals through reminders and charting results over a set period. Ideal therefore for transmitting results to your specialist in the event of specific follow-up (overweight, growth problem, etc.).
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Withings smart child scale, around €160, on the Internet or in a household appliance store.
Serious games
Finally, the “serious games” or therapeutic education video games, are particularly recommended to teach children how to better manage their pathology.
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“Allergeek » : A game of action and reflection to better understand the mechanism of allergies and determine the behaviors to adopt to suffer less from them on a daily basis. Available on the Appstore.
“Theo and the psorianauts” : To better understand what psoriasis is, acquire automatisms in everyday life, and therefore live better with the disease. http://www.theoetlespsorianautes.fr/
“The Burmese Affair” : A game of puzzles and adventures to learn how to better manage your diabetes using the technique of functional insulin therapy (administering insulin doses, calculating the number of doses needed according to diet, managing overdoses, etc.) .). http://www.glucifer.net/burman.html
A revolution for child health monitoring!
The opinion of Dr Guillaume Marchand, psychiatrist and co-founder of DMD Santé
Connected health at the service of children is still in its infancy, but it is a real revolution. Applications allow better monitoring and sometimes help with diagnosis. Serious games offer a relevant explanation of the pathology and make it possible to acquire automatisms on a daily basis. As for connected objects, they make it possible to go even further in health monitoring. After toothbrushes or scales, we see the development of “connected clothing”: they transmit the actions and gestures of the child or baby on an application. Information relating to sleep or temperature is then collected and analyzed: something to reassure parents!
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