Authentic Thai cuisine is now available at a new restaurant at 323 Faith Road.
Royal Thai Restaurant opened in September and is owned by Tunwaporn and Kelly Britt. Their family has a long history in the restaurant business and owns five restaurants in North Carolina and one in Maine.
Also, their chef has experience at a five-star hotel in Thailand.
Hours are 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m. and 5-9:30 p.m. Tuesdays-Fridays and noon-9:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays. It is closed on Monday. The phone number is 704-633-4930.
Shaken baby program
MOORESVILLE ó Lake Norman Regional Medical Center has become one of the first hospitals in the state to implement a new shaken baby prevention program. Maternity nurses now provide program materials and information to parents of all babies born at the hospital before they are discharged.
Implemented this month, it is a voluntary statewide program, according to Marie Marks, assistant director of women’s services. “We chose to participate as we felt it would be a big benefit for our patients and the community.”
Training and supplies were made available by Keeping Babies Safe in North Carolina ó a collaboration between the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome, the University of North Carolina Injury Prevention Research Center and the Center for Child and Family Health.
The goal is to reduce shaken baby syndrome in North Carolina by 50 percent in the next five years.
Nationally, an estimated 1,200 to 1,400 children a year receive medical treatment after being shaken. Approximately 25 percent of these children die, and 80 percent of survivors are left with some form of lifelong brain injury.
It’s suspected a lot more children are shaken but not hospitalized and may have mental retardation or learning disabilities later.
The intervention being used is The Period of PURPLE Crying, which was developed by Dr. Ron Barr, a professor of community child health research and a developmental pediatrician at the University of British Columbia, and Marilyn Barr, founder and executive director of the National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome.
The concept is to help describe the characteristics of crying in healthy infants. “PURPLE” describes normal infant crying. “Period” lets parents know that this experience of increased frustrated crying is temporary and eventually does come to an end.
The program includes hospital and healthcare provider-based parent education, a 10-minute video and an 11-page booklet. It also educates about the hazards of shaking and gives alternatives to use when they need a respite from a crying baby.
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