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  • Natural Remedies for Children's Vomiting
    The treatment for vomiting will depend upon the actual cause of the trouble in each individual case. In case of gentle vomiting, if it does not occur of its own, it should be induced by tickling of the throat with a feather dipped in oil.
  • Home Remedies for children's Dysentery
    Dysentery in children may be acute or chronic. The acute form is characterised by pain in the abdomen, diarrhoea and dysenteric motions. Yellowish white mucus and sometimes only blood from the intestinal ulcers is passed with stools.
  • Home Remedies for Children's Abdominal Pain
    Abdominal pain is a common complaint of children, especially in the age group between five and ten years. It is estimated that about 10 to 18 per cent of school-going children suffer from recurrent pain in the abdomen.
  • Home Remedies for Infantile Colic
    Colic is a painful stomach condition. Babies between the age of three and six months usually suffer from this condition. It is characterised by pain in the abdomen as a result of complete or partial blockage of one of the hollow tubes - intestines, ureters and bile ducts.
  • Home Remedies for Children's Constipation
    The treatment for constipation will depend uponthe age of the child whether he is a small baby or a child, four or five years of age. When a baby is on breast-feeding, constipation is usually the result of wrong feeding on the part of the mother, and it must be corrected.
  • Home Remedies for Gastro-enteritis
    Gastro-enteritis is an acute inflammatory sensation on the lining of the stomach and small bowel. It usually results from infection from contaminated food or water. Children are frequently affected by this disease.
  • Home Cures for Children's Intestinal Worms
    The worms and other intestinal parasites which infest human beings are more common in tropical and subtropical areas. Most of these worms and parasites gain entry into the body either through the mouth or through the skin of the feet. Children are more prone to infection from these worms than adults.
  • Home Cures for Children's Anal fissure
    Anal fissure refers to a tiny crack in the skin surrounding the anus, the excretory opening from the bowel.
  • Home Cures for Children's Appendicitis
    The child should be put to bed immediately at the first symptoms of severe pain, vomiting and fever. Rest is of utmost importance in the treatment of this disease. NO solid food should be given for one or two days. The child should be given plenty of water to drink.
  • Home Cures for Children's Cholera
    Before the onset of dehydration, the treatment should aim at combating the loss of fluids and salts from the body. To allay thirst, water, soda water or green coconut water should be given for sipping, although these may be thrown out by vomiting, therefore, only small quantities of water should be given repeatedly, as these may remain for sometime within the stomach and a stay of every one minute means some absorption.
  • How Breast-feeding Benefits You and Your Baby?
    Breast feeding benefits the nursing mother in many ways. It is good for your figure. Fat stores developed during pregnancy are laid down specifically for lactation. In the absence of breast feeding, that fat will look unseemly in various parts of your body. With breast feeding you burn almost 1000 calories each day.
  • Home Cures for Children's Common Cold
    No drug has so far been invented to cure cold. To treat a cold by means of customary suppressive drugs like aspirin and codeine will only pave the way for further trouble of more serious nature. For such a treatment puts a sudden stop to the eliminative processs then taking place and forces the toxic matter back into the tissues again.
  • Home Cures for Children's Tonsillitis
    Tonsillitis is one the most common ailments encountered at childhood. Its incidence is especially high among children in the age group between five and 10 years. It is indicative of a toxic condition of the system and is a continuous source of distress both for the child and his parents.
  • Home Cures for Children's Ttuberculosis
    Most children who are infected with tuberculosis anywhere in the body apparently look well, with no symptoms or signs. A few have a milk fever for a few weeks, may become cheerless and loose a little weight or fail to gain weight. In most cases, the primary focus heals with no further trouble. In some cases, however, clinical disturbances do occur at different stages of the disease process.
  • Home Cures for Children's Bronchitis
    Bronchitis is the most common disease of childhood next to indigestion and diarrhoea. It is especially prevalent in children who are just starting to mix with other children at playgroup or nursery school. They have no in-built immunity till then to all the infections they are likely to contact for the first time. And, so, coughs, colds and bronchitis can occur with monotonous regularity in his age group, particularly in allergic children.
  • Home Cures for Children's Asthma
    The child suffering from asthma appear to be struggling for breath. Actually, they have more trouble in exhaling than inhaling because the air passage of the small bronchi become clogged and constricted with mucus, thus making it difficult for the patient to breathe out. All asthamatics have more difficulty in the night, especially when asleep.
  • Home Cures for Children's Croup
    When children are affected with croup, they lose their usual cheerfulness and become irritated. There is a high pitched cracking noise with the intake of each breath. Some of them develop barking cough.
  • Home Cures for Children's Mumps
    Mumps are caused by a virus which attacks the salivary glands of the mouth, particularly the parotid glands located on each side of the face just below and in front of the ear. The infecting organism is paramyxovirus. After a child is exposed to a case of the mumps, it takes about two weeks for the disease to appear. Improper diet is the root cause of trouble.
  • Home Cures for Children's Pleurisy
    Pleurisy is an inflammation of the pleura, a serous membrane which envelopes the lungs and also lines the inside of the chest. It may be acute or chronic, and milk or severe. The disease may be limited to one side of the chest or it may include both the sides.
  • Home Cures for Children's Whooping Cough
    Unlike some other diseases, a new born baby has no immunity to whooping cough, and can get it any time after birth. It commonly affects infants during the first year of life, if they are not immunised. Many causes of whooping cough occur in children upto five years of age. In some cases, children upto 12 years may also be affected.
  • Home Cures for Children's Influenza
    Influenza, like all other acute diseases, is a natural attempt at self-cleansing and if rightly treated in a natural way, immense good can ensure so far as the future health of the patient is concerned.
  • Home Cures for Children's Malaria
    Malaria is caused by a tiny parasite called plasmodium. The parasite grows in the liver of a person for a few days and then enters the blood stream where in invades the red blood cells. The disease is spread by the female anopheles mosquito. She draws a small quantity of blood containing the parasites, when she bites a person who has malaria.
  • Home Cures for Children's Typhoid Fever
    Typhoid fever is an infectious disease and children contract it from those who have had it, or from carriers. The condition is common in tropical countries with poor sanitation and the menace of flies.
  • Home Cures for Children's Measles
    A child can be suspected to have caught the measles if he has not yet had this disease, and if he lives in a place where the disease has now spread. The first symptoms, which appear during seven to 14 days after exposure to the virus, are feverishness, cold, watering of the eyes and dry cough. The face appears to be a little puffed up.
  • Home Cures for Children's Chicken Pox
    Chicken pox is a common infectious and highly contagious disease of children. It occurs more frequently in cooler weather. Children between the ages of five and nine are most commonly affected and account for 50 per cent of all cases. Other cases occur between the ages of one to four and 10 to 14 . Infants under six months seem to have some immunity against this disease. In most cases, the older the child, the more severe the attack.
  • Home Cures for Children's Rheumatic Fever
    Rheumatic fever of inflammatory rheumatism is a very serious chronic disease. It mainly affects chldren and adolscents. It is thought to be an allergic condition which affects the joints, heart and nervous system.
  • Home Cures for Children's Meningitis
    Meningitis is a severe inflammation of the meninges or inner lining of the brain andspinal cord. This may result from invasion of bacteria or virus into meninges. The infection usually spreads from the base of the brain up over the surface and down the spinal cord .
  • Home Cures for Children's Boils
    The boils, known as Furuncle in medical parlance, are tender swellings in the skin surrounded by large red areas. They are infections of the sweat glands or hair follicles of the skin. They are common in children, and appear especially during summer season.
  • Home Cures for Children's Ringworm
    Ringworm infection occurs in the scalp, the body, the feet and the nails. Ringworm of the scalp is most common in children, because of the lack of protective fatty acids in their scalps. These fatty acids are produced only in adult life and make the scalp of an adult person resistant to ringworm infection. The infection is more frequent in boys than in girls because boys have shorter hair and the scalp is relatively less protected.
  • Home Cures for Children's Impetigo
    Impetigo is an extremely contagious skin infection. This is essentially a disease of childhood, though it may also occur frequently in adults. It is usually prevalent in infants and younger children following a cold. The infection can spread rapidly from one child to another by close contact, especially during the early years in schools. The disease is more common in the areas with unhygenic conditions.
  • Home Cures for Children's Scabies
    Scabies is a skin infection, popularly known as itch. It is caused by the mite sarcoptes scabiei or itch-mite. It is a contagious disease and is more common among people who live in crowded places under unhygienic conditions. The incidence of scabies is highest in children under the age of 15 years.
  • Home Cures for Children's Eczema
    Eczema is a very common skin disease of children. If the baby develops eczema at the very early age of two or three months, there is often a family history of eczema or asthma. However, if a young baby does have eczema, it does not necessarily mean that he will suffer from this irritating skin condition all his life. Many children outgrow infantile eczema by the time they are around three years old.
  • Home Cures for Children's Head Lice
    Head Lice, known as Pediculus Humanus in medical parlance, are tiny, flat, wingless insects which often find their way into the scalp as parasites. They suck the blood by biting the skin. This results in an irritation which, in chronic cases, caues thickening and pigmentation of the skin. Head lice occurs more frequently in children than in adults.
  • Home Cures for Children's Psoriasis
    Psoriasis is one of the most stubborn skin diseases. It is characterised by thick, red silvery scaled patches of skin. This disease may appear at any age, though it is rare in infancy and early childhood. The incidence increases throughout chldhood, after the age of five years, to reach a peak at adolescence. Girls suffering from this disease outnumber boys by two to one.

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