If the cough is due to asthma, it is treated appropriately with medications, depending on the nature and extent of the symptoms and the age of the child. The commonest cough, the one that follows a cold, does not need any specific treatment.
Antibiotics are not indicated in the great majority of these children because the [...]
Genetics is a highly complicated field. If you have a family history of a particular disorder, it is wise to consult someone experienced in genetic counselling, who can explain the details to you. A geneticist or paediatrician can also advise you about the likelihood of any of your children inheriting the problem. If you have [...]
“Why does he have this fetish for doing it doggy-style? He wants to get on me from behind. It’s all he ever wants to do. Why is it such a thing with him?”
ANSWER: A rule of super marital sex is no problem is just with him or with her. It will help if we phrase [...]
The doctor may combine drugs which act on different areas, increasing the dose of each of one until side affects appear, then adding another drug and increasing that the same way.
Some patients may respond to the first drug used and be hardy enough not to suffer ill-effects, and others may seem to suffer every side [...]
Most of the substances are salicylates or their derivatives. Dr Feingold listed 13 groups of additives which contain more than 2500 different chemicals.
One of the most common is called tartrazine and is a yellow dye. It is a salicylate and related to aspirin and is also known by a variety of other names or codes. [...]
Vegetarianism has attracted increasing interest in recent years for health, economic, environmental and ethical reasons. There are three types of vegetarians — vegans, who don’t eat meat, eggs, or dairy products; lacto-vegetarians who eat dairy products and ovo-lacto-vegetarians who eat both eggs and dairy products.
Some of the health advantages of vegetarianism are impressive. There is [...]
Osteoporosis is the medical term for a weakening of the bones which often occurs with aging. It is responsible for many hip and arm fractures and collapse of the vertebrae (spinal bones), with gradual loss of height and curvature of the back (“dowager’s hump”).
Such skeletal softening has been attributed mostly to loss of calcium and [...]
Symptoms: Nasal congestion, sneezing, clear nasal discharge, itchy nose, pale membranes, inside nose, headache, slight hearing loss, blue bags under eyes, fatigue.
Home care:
Try to keep the child away from the substances responsible for the allergic reaction.
Have the child sleep on a non-allergenic pillow.
The use of air conditioners or dehumidifiers can help remove allergy-causing substances from [...]
Way back in 1769, Nicholas Joseph Cugnot took his newly invented, self-propelled, steam-driven automobile prototype out for its maiden voyage. Humming around his Parisian neighborhood at about 2 1/2 miles per hour, Cugnot whacked into a wall, knocking it down, thereby putting the very first automobile accident on the books.
Just look what he started. Every [...]
John R. is a 35-year-old stress seeker with a good job in the aerospace industry. He lives in a beach town near Los Angeles and drives into Beverly Hills to see me once a year for a checkup. A few months ago we had an unscheduled meeting in the hospital.
John had been upset when he [...]