Pneumonia is the infection of the either one lung or both.
When both the lungs get infected it is known as double pneumonia.
When the pneumonia is mild enough that the visit to the doctor can be avoided and the child can carry out daily activities normally, it is known as walking pneumonia.
The lungs [...]
When a skin rash cannot be blamed on poison ivy or chicken pox, the culprit is eczema.
In this condition, the skin turns red, scaly and develops sores.
The itching is beyond the limit and the skins starts to shed in the form of scales.
Dermatitis is the other name for eczema.
Dermatitis actually means [...]
Children usually feel sick in the stomach when travelling in a car, airplane, boat or train.
This sickness is known as motion sickness.
This sickness is caused by reception of wrong signals by eyes, muscles, skin receptors, and inner ears.
While travelling, different body parts send different signals to the brain.
Eyes see things around [...]
Summer camps and family hiking sessions can sometimes result in children getting itchy rashes.
To be blamed are plants such as poison ivy, poison sumac and poison oak.
All of them produce the same substance or oil, called urushiol, which cause rashes.
Urushiol is colorless and even odorless and is present within the leaves.
Poison [...]
Urinary tract infection makes urinating painful.
The infected children thinks twice before going to the bathroom and they always get a feeling to go to the bathroom.
The urine also smells bad because of the infection.
Bacteria are responsible for infecting the urinary track.
The urinary track consists of certain parts such as two kidneys, [...]
Almost every kid and teenager faces corns, calluses and blisters problem.
They cause extreme discomfort, but at the same time, they are easily preventable.
The major cause for all of them is friction between the skin and foreign objects.
Dancers experience corns.
They are painful bumps on the toes.
Area affected with corn becomes hard [...]
Almost every kid and teenager faces corns, calluses and blisters problem.
They cause extreme discomfort, but at the same time, they are easily preventable.
The major cause for all of them is friction between the skin and foreign objects.
Dancers experience corns.
They are painful bumps on the toes.
Area affected with corn becomes hard [...]
Tonsils are two tissue balls located at the back of the throat.
They play a vital role and are an important part of the bodys infection fighting mechanism by helping to fight germs and diseases.
Tonsils deal with the germs before they reach mouth, throat, or sinuses.
When these infection fighters are infected by viruses [...]
Pinworms develop as a result of unhygienic habit of not washing hands before having food.
They are small worms who resemble to small thread pieces and cause itching in the anus area.
Pinworms infect humans only and reside in the intestines.
Every school going kid encounters this problem at one time or the other.
They [...]
Stomach flu or gastroenteritis is a kind of infection in the digestive system, especially the stomach and intestines.
Causes for this condition are parasite, bacteria, or virus infection spread through contaminated food and fluids.
It can also be caused by certain toxins present in some plants & seafood, usage of powerful laxatives in order to [...]
