With kids around there are bound to be some health scares every now and then. Here is some advice on what to do when that happens, and what to do proactively to minimize such scares. Parent’s guide to managing a healthy family.
Do you want to get high? Go sniff a deodorant. Yes, a deodorant. According to a recent report by Alcohol and Drug Abuse Organisation, United States, deodorants are one of the many domestic products that people sniff for their mood altering effects. Inhalants range from gasoline, kerosene, lighter fluid, typewriter correction fluid to antifreeze, paints,… [ Continue Reading ]
June 22: Emergency contraceptive, also known as EC, although a very common concept in the US, is quite new to India. A report compiled by the World Health Organisation (WHO) shows that the level of awareness among doctors in India is amazingly low. The Collaborative Centre for Research in Human Reproduction at WHO surveyed 50… [ Continue Reading ]
Burns affect more than what is visible. The heat penetrates into blood vessels below the skin, dilating them, thus making the plasma (the colourless part of the blood) escape. In a minor burn, the escaped plasma gets trapped in a blister. In a burn that removes the skin altogether, plasma bleeds from the raw area…. [ Continue Reading ]
I can see I can hear I can walk Why do all my problems surface When I try to talk? Speech problems can be frustrating indeed. Unclear (dyslalic) or dysfluent (stammered) speech can interfere with the development of healthy personality in an otherwise normally intelligent child and cause him tremendous hardship as he grows up… [ Continue Reading ]
It is impossible for a child to smother himself by lying face down on a bed with no pillow or getting under the bedclothes. He will come up for air when he needs to. What you need to be worried about are thin plastics since they are both airtight and clingy. If your child puts… [ Continue Reading ]
Your child has just hurt himself and you cannot find the antiseptic cream. You go about hunting for it as your son keeps crying. Sounds familiar? The best way to avoid such a situation and also to make sure that anyone left temporarily in charge knows where to find them is to keep all your… [ Continue Reading ]
If the child is not coughing but is gasping, turning scarlet and then greyish, with an expression of panic in his eyes, he cannot breathe. Act fast. Open his mouth and put your finger boldly in to the back of his throat in case you can hook the object. If you can make him retch,… [ Continue Reading ]
When food or any other foreign body goes into the lungs instead of the stomach, your child will try to eject it out with a lot of sputtering or coughing. It is nature way of removing alien bodies from the lungs and getting it back to the throat. As long as the child keeps coughing… [ Continue Reading ]
Another infectious disease like measles or chicken pox, mumps is caused by a virus which attacks mainly the glandular and nervous tissues. Although the morbidity rate tends to be high, mortality rate is negligible. Causative agent Mumps is caused by a virus called Myxovirus parotiditis. Source of infection The disease is spread by direct contact… [ Continue Reading ]
Diarrhoea can be defined by one symptom — loose stool being passed at a frequency of more than three times a day. One of the most common ailments, it afflicts children about 10 to 15 times in the first five years of life. But, sometimes you could be mistaken by diarrhoea-like symptoms. If your child… [ Continue Reading ]
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