Bullying is a big problem in school these days. Generally when a child enters school, the older children or seniors indulge in bullying. They might push, kick or call names or otherwise threaten the new comer. The kid feels hurt and scared and often tries to avoid school on one pretext or the other. The…
When a child starts to grow up, the most important thing at the back of each mom’s mind is about education and she starts making him learn some basic alphabets. Even when the child is of school going age, moms who have the time start giving a pencil in his hand to enable him to…
During the seasons of the year when the weather is cool and humid, you will find a large number of children suffering from cough and cold. By the time one child is examined by the doctor the other one comes coughing. Even if you are not at the doctor’s clinic but in the market, you…
Headaches are quite common in school going children and about 90% of the kids going to school report having them. As the child grows older, the instances of occurrence of headache increase. There could be many causes of headache in the children. These could be common causes which may not be harmful or non common…
There is a general complaint in the children in the age group of 3 to 5 and those from 8 to 12, of feeling of pain in legs in late afternoon hours, evening time, at night, during first few hours of sleep or occasionally when the child gets up in the morning. Growing pains are…
Both common cold and flu are illnesses which affect the respiratory system of the human body and both have similar symptoms so it becomes difficult to distinguish between the two on the basis of symptoms. Both common cold and flu are caused by different set of viruses and require different treatment. The symptoms of flu…
Recollect when you traveled in an aircraft for the first time, the feeling you had. There is a lot of vibration when the aircraft taxis on the runway at a very high speed and then takes off. At this time there is change in air pressure inside the cabin which directly has effect on the…
Encephalitis is a rare disease which has been diagnosed in 1 person per 200000 people. This disease is related to the brain and results from inflammation of brain tissues. As a result of inflammation, the brain tissues do not function in a normal manner. Due to improper functioning of brain, the child reports seizure, loss…
E Coli is an infection caused by bacteria. When a child gets infected, he has cramps in muscles and also severe diarrhea associated with blood. Children are affected more and symptoms are severer than the adults and are more common during summer time. Symptoms The symptoms start to appear within 10 days of infestation by…
The moment the child is born, the process of his development starts. You will observe development in both mind and body. The child grows up in size and shape and side by side the brain starts to develop and the child starts to learn a few things from parents or those looking after him. Though…