Teach Your Child Cough and Sneeze Techniques

As parents, we try our best to teach our children all we can. Many things are taught by talking to them, reading books, or using audio-visual aids. But children understand and learn best by what is set as an example.

Does my child need energy drinks?

Firstly, it is important to distinguish sports drinks from energy drinks. Both beverages are being increasingly marketed to children and adolescents with the promise of improved athletic and academic performance.

Use of Hand Sanitizers In Children

With increasing awareness of personal hygiene and dissemination of knowledge of how disease spreads, and aggresive marketing there is an increasing tendency to carry bottles of hand sanitizers for use on a regular basis,

Sweetened Aerated Drinks & Diabetes

Drinking just one 12 oz (roughly 350 ml) can/bottle of sweetened, carbonated beverage ups the risk of developing diabetes by as much as 20%! [1]

A ‘Rash’ Of Hand Foot Mouth Disease!

Of late (over the last month or so), I have been seeing a crop of cases of hand, foot, and mouth disease. Apart from having a very fancy name and a very descriptive one, this disease is a