Archive for December, 2009

Being able to properly use the toilet is deemed a developmental landmark wherein a child learns urinating and passing motions in the toilet. Toilet training is one of the occurrences which a doctor employs for telling if a kid is having a normal developmental rate. When would it be apt to begin toilet training the infant? To start off with toilet training the infant needs to have both physical and emotional readiness. This kind of inclination generally is observed in the age of twenty-two to thirty months old, though each kid is unique. By-and-large toilet training turns out to be a lengthy and exasperating process in case the parents attempt at beginning it prior to the infant exhibiting any willingness. Prior to infants being able to use the loo, controlling the muscles which are responsible  [...]

Infant biting is not mostly deliberate, and it atypically leads to any grave harm to the person being bitten or pose any form of health hazard. Majority of the infants below three years of age have on no less than one occasion bitten some person. Mostly infants give up biting by themselves. However when an above three years old child bites or is occurring in a frequent basis in any age then this behaviour needs to be treated. Why does biting occur? Infant biting could arise due to varying causes dependent on what age they lie: Infants aged five to seven months old Infants generally engage in biting other persons when they are sensing discomforting feeling in the area just about their mouth or due to the pain that often accompanies teething. On several occasions children tend to bite  [...]

Pilates is an amazing exercise type during pregnancy. Regularly practising pilates help expectant mother in staying healthy and strong, assisting them in staying tuned with the changes in their body, enhances body posture and lowers pregnancy-associated aches and discomforting pains. During pregnancy strengthening the abdominals like the rectus and especially the internal oblique and transverses abdominus muscles with safe Pilates exercises aids women in preparing for child birth as all these muscles particularly the transverses abdominus dons a significant role of assisting in the push or forced expiration process essential during delivery. The toning of these muscles could be done in varied positions, though expectant mothers are mostly at ease when they are in the seated and quadruped  [...]

Botulism is a paralytic sickness, though uncommon could lead to paralysis and other grave, mortal consequences. A bacterial form known as Clostridium botulinum present in soil is the offender that produces a nerve toxin that causes botulism. With 7 identified botulism toxins, however merely toxin forms A, B, E and F are detrimental to human beings. Botulism is of 3 kinds typified variedly depending on the way of their exposure: Food Derived Botulism This form of botulism is the consequence of consuming foods that have faced contamination due to the botulism toxin. Wound Botulism This form of botulism is due to the botulism toxin which grows from contamination due to Clostridium botulinum arising from injuries or wounds. Infancy Botulism This form of botulism arises when children  [...]

West Nile Virus is the outcome of being bitten by an infected mosquito that is the carrier of the viral form. However, one must bear in mind that all of the mosquito populace does not carry the infection. The detection of the West Nile Virus could be traced to 1937 in the African subcontinent, though it managed to trace its course to the U.S. in the subsequent two decades. However, ever since, it has evolved into a niggling problem especially in the summer season. Several areas of the U.S. have to face the brunt of these mosquito infestations in the months ranging from July onwards till the initial part of September. Though few areas of the country, the menace of imminent possibility of being bitten by mosquitoes ridden with such infection is all year through. Not every bite of this infection-ridden  [...]

In case one is expecting or those who intend to get pregnant, there is plentiful info regarding sex prior to getting pregnant and sex subsequent to delivery. However, often there is dearth of discussion on the matter of sex during pregnancy, as due to cultural propensity to detach pregnant women from sexuality. Often several couples expecting a child are confounded with a myriad of doubts regarding the safety quotient of sex and what is deemed standard in case of majority of the couples. In case the doctor has given the thumbs-up for a normal pregnancy then sex is deemed risk-free in all the three trimesters of pregnancy. Yet, there are certain sexual practises are considered risky in case of any pregnant woman. These include: In case one engages in oral sexual practises then  [...]

Shigellosis is a form of communicable infection affecting the gastrointestinal tract leading to wide-ranging symptoms such as looseness in bowels, cramps, puking and feeling nauseous, even resulting in grave complications and sickness. Occasionally, shigellosis infections could subside by itself while in other cases a course of antibiotics is required to curb the length of the sickness. A predominantly summer time infection classically affecting children aged between two to four years and a typically children lesser than six months old. Shigellosis Symptoms The Shigella bacteria is the key offender in this infection producing toxins that could launch an assault on the cells which line the large intestine leading to its enlargement, ulcerous growths on the wall of the intestine and blood-inundated  [...]

The below mentioned are the widely prevalent queries that confound many couples regarding sex during the time of pregnancy. Could sexual contact be harmful to the foetus? There is no direct harm to the unborn child as it is properly encased in the amniotic sac (a thin-wall pouch holding the unborn child and the adjacent fluid) and the firm uterine muscles. A thick mucus cap plugs the cervix and aids in safeguarding from infection. There is no chance of the foetus coming in contact with the unborn child at the time of sexual contact. Could penetrative sexual contact or orgasms lead to miscarriage or uterine contractions? Taking into consideration a normally occurring and less-risk pregnancy, there is generally no such occurrence. The spasms that pregnant women experience at the instant or  [...]

Five-year-old Keaton Foale faces long-standing problem of ever being able to eat as he is ailing from a 1 in a 135 million genetic disorder. The boy has yet not experienced what the taste of chips or sweets and is most probably would never be able to as he has been detected with the extremely atypical inborn disorder known as Glycosylation Type Two. Due to this condition normal eating is not possible in his case. The feeding is done via a tube that is goes directly into his stomach – something that he would need to live with for all his life. His condition has perplexed doctors globally and was initially detected when he started declining bottle feeds when he was 3 months old. Doctors from the Sutherland General Hospital found that his stomach instantaneously eliminated any form of  [...]

Hypothesis regarding the causes of pica are plentiful. One theory is that being nutritionally deficit like iron insufficiency could elicit particular hankerings. Facts that back at least few of the pica cases are a retort to dietetic insufficiency – nutritional paucity mostly are linked with pica and correcting them mostly causes allaying of the symptoms. Few pregnant women, for instance, would give up the craving of consuming non-food substances subsequent to undergoing treatment for iron deficit anemia – a widespread condition noted in expectant mothers with pica. But, not all are observed to respond to a correction of their nutritional deficiency, that could be the result of pica instead of due to the cause, and some individuals with pica do not have a known nutritional dearth. Geophagia  [...]