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,
Should I use ear buds to clean my baby’s ear?
This is one of the commonest questions that I get from anxious parents. I recently saw a child who
Take care! How to prevent the most common burn injury in children
You are having a well deserved cup of hot chai after a long, hard day at work. Either the phone or the doorbell rings and you get up to answer it or maybe you get called away to another part of the house. Unfortunately,
Is your child aggressive? Blame it on the aerated drink!
Aerated soft drinks have been blamed for many life-style related diseases – obesity, diabetes, constipation, tooth decay etc. Now add aggressive behavior to the list!
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
Should I give oral polio vaccine or the injectable one to my child?
At one time, India accounted for 85% of the global burden of polio cases. Thanks to huge governmental initiative and effort,
Take Care! Dangers Of Pillion Riding on Two Wheelers
Look at the two wheeler on which the lady is sitting
I was driving and came upon this when the traffic was stalled for some reason. Do have a look at the two