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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 [...]
February 2nd, 2010 | Posted in children health | No Comments
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 [...]
October 6th, 2009 | Posted in children health | No Comments
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, [...]
March 10th, 2009 | Posted in children health | No Comments
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 [...]
February 24th, 2009 | Posted in children health | No Comments
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 [...]
February 21st, 2009 | Posted in children health | No Comments
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 [...]
February 13th, 2009 | Posted in children health | No Comments
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 [...]
December 30th, 2008 | Posted in children health | No Comments
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 [...]
November 24th, 2008 | Posted in children health | No Comments
Flu and cold usually accompany each other when attacking a childs immune system.
It is a wide spread viral infection and the harsh truth is that there is no permanent treatment designed for it because of the involvement of many types of viruses which cannot be killed, but yes their growth rate can be suppressed.
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October 17th, 2008 | Posted in children health | No Comments
Nearly fifty percent of children acquire warts at some time or the other.
Warts, in the real sense are benign tumors which develop when keratinocytes, a kind of skin cell, is infected by the wart virus.
There are many types of warts, the most common being rough bumps which appear on fingers and hands.
Others [...]
September 1st, 2008 | Posted in children health | No Comments