Healthcare News & Views
Have you noticed your child lose focus or attention and drift away mid discussion or activity? Has the frequency of his behavioral change increased? Do you notice him/her often lose interest in something very quickly, only to attach it to something else? 
Let’s not ignore these symptoms. There is a chance your child is suffering from Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Continue reading “How do You Tell If Your Child has ADHD?”
Our health is our greatest treasure. Taking care of our health is utmost important. But in our daily life, we keep on looking for excuses to not visit our doctor. Be it for saving money or for other reasons like ‘I am too young and healthy to go to a doc’, ‘I don’t have time today; may be next week, I’ll get an appointment…”, we keep on ignoring our health.
We do not understand the fact that performing regular health check –ups from young age can actually save many lives. Saving some bucks today by ignoring periodic check-ups, we increase the risk of occurrence of several health issues in future.
Continue reading “Regular Health Check-up – Why is it Important?”
A report from the Times of India early this month announced that India will organize the largest eye care awareness campaign in Navi Mumbai. Called Nanhe Nayan, it will aim at checking the eye sight of close to 60,000 school children. Eye experts will be called in for the examination.
With the country paying attention to the needs of eye care, we decided to call for attention to the issue too. With our changes in lifestyle, sleeping patters, work environment and diet, the eye is suffering. You may not realize the importance of some of these things and the difference they make to your eye sight. But with every change, our eye is struggling to keep up. To help out, here is a list of things that change the way you look, literally. Continue reading “Eye Care Doesn’t Have To Be Hard. Read These 7 Tips”
We all have been through the painfully long wait at the dentist’s office and the further painful session seated in the dentist chair. A visit to the dentist is never fun. Starting from having your teeth cleaned to a root canal, teeth and gums are the more sensitive parts of the human anatomy. And not to mention every trip burns a large hole in your wallet.
Today, because of the kind of lifestyles we lead with our vegan phases, liquid diets and fluctuation nutrition intake and green tea binge drinking, our teeth are bearing the brunt of our experiments. So it is possibly more important than ever to make dental hygiene a habit.
Ironically, dental hygiene is also the easiest to take care of at home, but easily one of the most ignored. We bring you some important do’s and don’t’s for simple maintenance of dental hygiene. Continue reading “Are You Really Taking Care of Your Teeth?”
A recent study by the JAMA showed that more than two thirds of Americans around the age of twenty five are obese. UK reports that one in ten children face childhood obesity in kindergarten and the number is one in five by the time they hit school. The numbers in India may not be as alarming, but medical research institutes predict that they will be dangerously close to their Western counterparts in the next decade. A latest report by The Times of India reiterates this fact. India is already the third most obese country in the world. “Latest estimates show prevalence of obesity among adolescents (13-18 years) has grown from 16% to 29% over the last five years,” the report says.
Addictions are becoming worse these days with addictive parents willing or (rather hypnotized by their addictions) to fund their killing habit of smoking for instance, but not their children’s basic necessities to survive. “Smoking reduces the income available for families to feed, clothe and otherwise care for their children living in low-income households,” said Dr. Tessa Langley of University of Nottingham’s UK Centre for Tobacco and Alcohol Studies while quoting facts from her new study published in BMC Public Health, an open access journal.
Continue reading “Are Parents Responsible or Irresponsible Towards Child Care?”
Child healthcare in India has not been able to reach the mark despite tremendous progress made since the 90’s. Starting off with the nation’s worrying listing of largest urban child survival gap among countries like Nigeria, Rwanda, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam, Kenya, Peru, Ghana, and Madagascar, this is something which should coerce the government to pull up its socks.
Continue reading “5 Tips to Ingrain Healthy Eating Habits in Children”
Summer time, yippee! Yes, it’s that season of the year when your kids feel like they are under a new sun with joy and excitement coming in leaps and bounds. But, will the new sun steal their joy, and health in return? Have you safe planned your child’s summer vacation?
Continue reading “How to Deal with Summer? Summer Safety Tips for Your Child”