Most minor mishaps do not require any medical attention at all. The human body has its own way of dealing with them. In fact, often, administration of first aid by an over-enthusiastic elder can hamper the natural process of healing. For example, antiseptic creams often delay wound-healing while doing little to prevent unlikely infection. Sticking plaster can keep a cut …
Read More »Middle Child Syndrome
Remember Stephanie Tanner from the hit SitCom “Full House”? Remember her several issues with “always being in between!” Well, that is a glimpse (a very tiny glimpse) of middle child syndrome for you. Without a doubt, in reality the syndrome can get much worse. So, how does a parent know that their little angel is suffering from a syndrome simply …
Read More »Mercury Found In 44% of Fairness Creams In India, Says CSE Study
Toxic metal mercury, which is not allowed to be used in cosmetics in India, is found in 44 per cent of the fairness creams in India, a study by the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) has found. It also found chromium and nickel in around fifty per cent of the lipstick samples it tested. The CSE’s Pollution Monitoring Lab …
Read More »Medication During Lactation
The phone rang at 5 am on Sunday morning. Sleepily I picked it up thinking it would be an emergency call from the hospital. To my surprise it was my friend Seema from Singapore. “Geeta, I am pregnant! Can you believe it?” She exclaimed loudly. After 10 long years! Naturally she was overjoyed, as it was a precious pregnancy. “But …
Read More »Measles Symptoms
A disease, which has no formal treatment as such other than prevention through immunization, measles is most commonly seen in pre-school children, specially in the winter and spring ones. It initially appears like a bad cold that is getting worse. Contact the doctor if your child has a cough, a fever along with a rash. Its symptoms begin appearing only …
Read More »Maternity Clothes And Shoes
So you’re three months into pregnancy and it’s finally beginning to show. It’s time to step up those changes in your lifestyle that you began when you first came to know. Begin with the clothes. No more tight jeans and figure-hugging churidar kurtas but loose stuff that can accommodate your growing body and give it space to breathe. And no, …
Read More »Remember Names
For teachers, therapists, and concerned friends, it builds self-esteem in children when you so you care enough to remember not only their names, but the names of their pets, family members, places they told you about, other significant details about them. Familiarity with concrete names shows you were really listening and you really understood. For parents, it is important to …
Read More »Take Children To Special Place
Make visiting special places a part of your relationship with children. Take them to a place out side the regular or prescribed structure. Take them to a place you say is special to you so that the memory of it will be of a special place shared. When I tutored students, I would sometimes take a child to the nearby …
Read More »Massaging The New Muscles
When the massage-woman started coming home after the delivery, I was a little taken aback. She was supposed to massage and bathe the baby and, hold your breath, the mother everyday. Though I didn’t mind removing bits and pieces of clothing to get massaged, which was actually quite painful, I did mind being bathed by this woman I had never …
Read More »Managing Obesity In Children
“Children Obesity” is becoming an increasing concern amongst today’s parents. As our life styles change, we must carefully monitor the effects these changes have on the physical and mental health of our children. Obesity is a condition of excess weight. Research already shows a growing incidence of problems like diabetes, hypertension, cholesterol, asthma and orthopaedic problems at an increasingly younger …
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