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Cure Your Child’s Winter Blues With Penguin Activities And Celebrate The Season! By : Jolanda Garcia Brrr! Winter is the coldest season of the year. Water freezes to become ice, snow, sleet, or icicles, creating a sparkling wonderland. Many plants and animals become dormant or hibernate. People bundle up in hats, mittens, and boots. It’s a time for enjoying outdoor activities like ice skating, sledding, and building snowmen or indoor activities like drinking hot chocolate, curling up with a book by a toasty fire, or going to see a good movie like “Happy Feet,” an uplifting s... Chickenpox Transmission Methods By : David Davis Chickenpox is a very common and highly contagious disease that is often called one of the classic children's diseases, because so many people contract it during their childhood. Rare but serious complications can be caused by the disease that require immediate medical attention. The best method for avoiding chickenpox is to receive a chickenpox immunization. The most common chickenpox symptoms are fever, headache, stomach ache, and loss of appetite, followed by an itchy ra... Preventing Chickenpox By : Linda Brown Chickenpox is a very common and highly contagious disease that is often called one of the classic children’s diseases, because so many people contract it during their childhood. Chickenpox is transmitted by direct contact and as well as by airborne transmission. Rare but serious complications can result from the disease for which it is necessary to seek immediate medical attention. The most common symptoms of chickenpox are fever, headache, stomach ache, and loss of appetite,... Chickenpox Diagnosis And Treatment By : Patricia Davis One of the classic children's diseases is chickenpox, which is easily transmitted between children. Chickenpox can be transmitted by direct contact as well as by airborne transmission. Rare but serious complications can be caused by the disease, requiring immediate medical attention. The most effective method for avoiding chickenpox is by immunization against the disease. The most common symptoms of chickenpox are fever, headache, stomach ache, and loss of appetite, followed ... Measles Overview By : John Brown With vaccination being as common as it is, most people don't know anything about the symptoms and treatment of measles. Measles, also known as rubeola, is an infectious viral disease that affects the respiratory system and occurs in winter and spring. The most common symptoms of measles are fever, a hacking cough, runny nose, conjunctivitis, and a spreading rash. Measles can also cause serious complications. The incubation period for measles is about 2 weeks from one's ... How Dry I Am! By : Lisa Anderson Bedwetting, known as enuresis, is a common problem amongst U.S. families. Over one third of children of ages 5-6 regularly wet the bed, and almost twenty percent of those children between ages five and ten wet the bed. More boys than girls will be bedwetters. Causes What causes bedwetting? Bedwetting can be due to one or more causes. The bladder may not have developed as fast the rest of the body and simply can’t hold the amount that is required of it. Heredity plays... Childhood Obesity - What Are The Risks? By : Janet Hart Let’s look at these risks in detail: Type II Diabetes – Diabetes is a serious condition that requires dietary restrictions, and oral or injectible insulin. Even with appropriate treatment, diabetes has long-term health risks that include circulatory disease, an inability to heal from wounds and injuries, stress on the heart and pulmonary system, and even blindness, stroke and coma. Diabetes in children is nearly always due to obesity and lack of proper diet and exerc... Asthma In Kids: An Increasing Epidemic By : Tim Jackson Many believe that the majority of asthma cases are confined to adults, but this is definitely an incorrect assumption. because asthma in kids has become increasingly common in the last 20 years. We are uncertain as to why this is so, but it is an undoubted fact that in the United States alone there are 5,000,000+ children beneath the age of 18 who suffer from asthmic symptoms. In a recent study (2004) it was discovered that the #1 cause of absenteeism in school is asthma, ... Treatment Of Measles By : David Davis With the advent of immunizations, measles seems to be a thing of the past. But not everyone has been immunized. Do you know what to do if someone you care for gets measles? Measles, also known as rubeola, is an infectious viral disease that primarily affects the a respiratory system and occurs in winter and spring. The common symptoms of measles include fever, a hacking cough, runny nose, conjunctivitis, and a spreading rash, some of which last about 2 weeks. Serious and r... Kids With The Stomach Flu By : Dorothy Brown Was your latest bout of the stomach flu really the stomach flu? Or was it some other virus that found its way into your intestines? Kid get sick and throw up all the time -- is it always the stomach flu? Actually, it is probably not. It turns out that what most of us think of as the stomach flu is really something else, a gastrointestinal virus. The flu is actually a respiratory illness, everyone just thinks that the stomach flu is that horrible sickly diarrhea. Even some doc... Measles Transmission And Diagnosis By : David Williams How does a person get measles? How do you treat it? Do you know the answer? Measles, also known as rubeola, is an infectious viral disease that affects the a respiratory system and mostly occurs in winter and spring. The most common symptoms of measles include fever, runny nose, a hacking cough, conjunctivitis, and a spreading rash, some of which last about 2 weeks. In most cases, measles treatment simply involves treating the symptoms with paracetamol, regular rinsing of ... Lifestyle Changes For Kids Suffering From Diabetes By : Ashish Jain Children grow fast. Diabetes in children is growing faster. Well, diabetes in children is a recent phenomenon. Anything that is a recent phenomenon, lead us to the question mark, why and from where this disease has cropped up? What are the reasons for its arrival? When the reasons for its arrival are identified, the plans for its departure can also be formulated. Juvenile diabetes is also known as Type I diabetes. This type of diabetes requires a regular shot of insulin... Ways To Protect Our Children From Illness By : Claire Quaty Seeking to make ourselves more pliable in the world and advance in the way our health is affected in the world around. This is never more prudent than when you are taking the health of a child into consideration. The main fact of this matter is that a child is not as well equipped to deal with certain health issues as the adults of the world are. So how do we deal with the issue of child health? There is no one simple answer to such a thing. When you take the fact that hea... Old-fashioned Healing For Your Child’s Cold By : Alexa Simmons When a child gets a cold, we usually run to the pharmacy and get the over-the-counter medicine. However, by taking a moment and looking around the house you may save a few dollars by choosing old-fashioned remedies instead. A cold will run its course, regardless of the medicine you give your child. Once the virus sets in, there is no way to get rid of it. All you can do is treat it to keep it from turning into a more serious condition. So treating it with over-the-counter ... Understanding What Colic Is By : Jason Rickard When babies cry for more than three hours per day, they are said to have colic. This period of excessive crying differs from baby to baby, but usually occurs when a baby is around three weeks of age and wears off when a baby is in between the age of four to six weeks. During this period of extreme disturbance, the parents usually get little or no sleep. Most doctors believe that colic occurs to a child in order to psychologically awaken, and prepare the parents of the newb... Obesity And Cancer Survival By : Elizabeth Newberry Cancer is one of the few serious health conditions for which we can’t always pinpoint a cause. We know exactly how serious health conditions such as AIDS are contracted, but cancer is trickier. Many times cancers are caused by environmental factors such as chemicals, smoking, exposure to natural sunlight and unnatural sunlight, such as tanning beds, and even x-rays. Sometimes cancers are genetic; the odds of developing them are great, or, they are simply triggered by these ki... How To Handle A Child With Anorexia By : Rob Zawrotny According to the National Institutes of Health, about 0.5 to 3.7 percent of girls and women will develop anorexia nervosa over a lifetime, and around 1.1 to 4.2 percent will develop bulimia nervosa. Nearly 0.5 percent of anorexics die each year from the illness, making it one of the top psychiatric illnesses to cause death. Those suffering from anorexia are extremely fearful of gaining extra weight and may exhibit negative behaviors and actions leading to severe weight los... Severe Sore Throat - Tonsillitus Confusion By : Maisy Day What we normal folk (as we would like to believe that we are) call a sore throat is referred to in medical terms as pharyngitis. A sore throat can be quite painful when the patient attempts to swallow food or liquids, the soreness from this can be unbearable - so therefore the sufferer tends to go with out - due to their inability to eat - up to an extent where they starve themselves to avoid the discomfort. And if you enjoy getting up behind a microphone to give a song - for... The MMR Controversy: Do You Know The Facts? By : Peter Nisbet There is a lot of controversy at the moment regarding the MMR vaccine, specifically the measles portion of it. Many parents are nervous about allowing their children to have the MMR vaccination due mainly, I believe, to its link with autism. Most people have quite a fixed opinion I have found, though are unsure what the actual evidence is that they are believing. There is no shortage of information about MMR and autism, and it is easily found on the internet. However there...

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