Pregnancy & Parenting: Tips, advice and information for Indian parents!
Pregnancy & Parenting: Tips, advice and information for Indian parents!
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Many of us would waive an article on immunisation as irrelevant to us. And yet, our own personal experience has shown that even educated parents ignore new vaccines, unaware how critical they can be to their child's health.
There are no dengue vaccines, so what you could do is keep a dengue patient away from other members of the family and use a mosquito net.
Your house could be a good breeding ground for mosquitoes if it does not have proper ventilation or is badly lit.
In pregnant women, hook worm infection may cause a miscarriage or lead to low birth weight babies and still births.
Chicken pox is caused by a virus that can be transmitted by proximity to an affected person. Usually, children under ten years of age contract it.
An infectious disease, Hepatitis B spreads through contaminated blood and body secretions such as saliva, vaginal secretion and semen of an infected person.
The time for your child's immunisation is here, but is it really safe for your child? Here are few questions you should not forget to ask your doctor.
Only a small percentage of affected people show symptoms of amoebiasis. It varies from mild abdominal discomfort and diarrhoea to acute dysentry.
Small pox is an infectious disease caused by the variola virus. The eradication of small pox is a significant accomplishment in the field of medicine.
Be careful about precooked foods, wash raw vegetables well before cooking them and check the manufacturing date of canned juices before you buy.
The origin of preventive medicine dates back to the 18th century. It all began with a landmark breakthrough -- the discovery of a vaccine against small pox.
Health is generally viewed as absence of disease, but it is a state of complete physical, mental and social well being.
The fact that plague is transmitted by rodents and fleas has been known since ages. And, the drugs needed to fight the disease are easily available. Yet, over the past 20 years, the global fatality rate has been 9 per cent annually.
The range of injuries and accidents that can lead to Tetanus is huge - from a pin prick, skin abrasion and ulcer, to burns, bites and stings, unsterile surgery, intra uterine death, bowel surgery, dental extractions, and eye and ear infections.
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Mumps is an infectious disease caused by a virus. It usually occurs in children in the age group of five to 15 years and one attack is assumed to induce lifetime immunity.
Be careful when you are playing with stray dogs. You could get infected and you would not even know about it. Its symptoms may take anything between five and twenty years to appear.
Fumigate your house and nearby areas to stem breeding of mosquitoes. Like dengue and yellow fever, encephalitis is also transmitted by mosquitoes and takes about 5 to 15 days to disappear.
Caused by a virus, measles affects children between six months and three years.
This disease is common in hot climes where food or water get contaminated easily.
Rubella, a viral infection, affects children between three to 10 years. One attack leads to lifelong immunity.
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