Kids and Teenage Health
Health information for teenagers, ranging from nutrition, safety to other health disorders.
Blindness is defined by the WHO as a corrected visual acuity of less than 3/60 is the better eye which is approximately equal to an ability to count fingers of 3 meters or a central visual field of 100 from the point of fixation.
A CHILD is defined by UNICEF as an individual aged 0-15 years of age. This age group constitute 40% of the population.
Globally there are estimated to be 45 million...
Abstract: Recent advances in neuroscience show clearly how experience can change brain neurochemicals, and how this in turn affects the way the brain functions. As a result, early negative events actually get built into the growing brain’s neurochemistry, altering the brain’s architecture. Research is continuing to investigate how children with genetic vulnerabilities, such as autism,...
As girls and boys cross ten and upto the age of nearly twenty, they are in adolescence. This stage of neither child nor adult produces physical and mental changes in girls and boys that ultimately evolves into physical characteristics and mental make-up of the young adult. As such the dietary needs of this period which is the crossroads in the life of girls and boys are critical. The diet has to...
There are many serious and often fatal diseases caused by smoking.
The most common of these are:
coronary heart disease
cancer of the lung
chronic bronchitis, emphysema and other lung diseases.
The list of smoking-related diseases includes the following.
Coronary heart disease
Atherosclerosis - this is the build-up of fatty deposits and loss of elasticity in the artery walls which can lead to a...
List of Questions
Q1.How we can ensure neonat health service in a rural setting in the developing countries?
Q2.What are the fatal diseases of early childhood? How to manage a case of Penumonia in an infant?
Q3 It is said in the text books and some other literatures that "bathing the baby immediately after birth is not necessary? If not, why not? What happens if the baby is bathe immediately...
Breathing the smoke from other people's cigarettes is called passive smoking. It consists of smoke from the burning end of the cigarette - called sidestream smoke - and smoke inhaled and exhaled by the smoker - mainstream smoke. The US Environmental Protection Agency has declared passive smoking or exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) to be a 'Class A Carcinogen' which means that it is...
Parents or guardians of children who experience bedwetting at night or "accidents" during the day should treat this problem with understanding and patience. This loss of urinary control is called "urinary incontinence" or just "incontinence." Although it affects many young people, it usually disappears naturally over time, which suggests that incontinence, for some people, may be a normal part of...
Children become overweight for a variety of reasons. The most common causes are genetic factors, lack of physical activity, unhealthy eating patterns, or a combination of these factors. In rare cases, a medical problem, such as an endocrine disorder, may cause a child to become overweight. Your physician can perform a careful physical exam and some blood tests, if necessary, to rule out this type...
In rural Nepal, an impressive study conducted by researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health on 45,000 married women, showed that retinol palmitate (7,000 mg RE/week) or beta-carotene (42 mg/week) supplementation during childbearing years in the women can lower mortality related to pregnancy (up to 12 weeks post-partum) by an astonishing 44 per cent. This survival...
Pediatric obesity and nutrition experts today said that increasing physical activity and emphasizing eating a wide variety of foods, for a high fiber and low fat diet, are the most important steps parents should take in preventing childhood obesity. The comments were made as part of a national conference on pediatric obesity sponsored by the Georgetown University's Center for Food and Nutrition...
Improved Sleep may be an Important Treatment Focus
Atopic dermatitis (AD), or eczema, can cause more problems than just chronically red, itchy skin. According to the August issue of the AMA's Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, children with AD are often plagued with sleep-related problems than can affect the entire family.
Ronald E. Dahl, M.D, from the University of Pittsburgh School...
Autism is "A chronic developmental disability with combination of sensori-motor and behavioral characteristics along with cognitive disabilities." Autism itself is a very complex condition and can make life a challenge. Dr. Leo Karner is the person who first identified 11 children with Autism. However, By the bless of science we know more about the genetic makeup of humans. A French team of...
The Following are The Essential Message Distilled from Facts for Life.
The health of both women and children can be significantly improved when births are spaced at least two years apart, when pregnancy is age 18 and after age 35, and when a woman has no more than four pregnancies in total.
All pregnant women should visit a health worker for prenatal care, and all births should be assisted by a...
Injuries and deaths of children associated with child safety seats and passenger-side air bags have been reported. Parents, therefore, should be reminded that the safest place for any infant or small child when riding in a car is buckled into a safety seat or seat belt in the back seat. This is true whether or not the car is equipped with a passenger-side air bag.
Any child who rides unrestrained...
Oxygen is necessary to allow chemical transformations in the body. The heart is the muscle that pumps oxygen-rich blood to the rest of your body.
Aerobic exercise increases lung capacity (intake of oxygen) and strengthens the heart muscle (more effective pumping of oxygen), helping the body to clean more effectively and rapidly and helping reducing risks of heart diseases. Aerobics can also...
Craig Whittington the last 12 months have witnessed radical changes and considerable controversy regarding how childhood and teenage depression is treated. Although few antidepressant drugs have been licensed for pediatric use, rates of prescribing in the under-18 age group have risen by 60 per cent over the past decade, with over a million children and adolescents receiving what are called...
Some Tragic Incidences
Ferdousi a village teen was married to Shahed Ali 16. When married the adolescent girl Ferdousi was just 14. Their first child was born two years after marriage. Delivery was done at home. During pregnancy Ferdousi was administered tetanus Toxoid. Two years after the birth of first child another boy child was born but he died soon after. Again a son, the third one, was born...
Has your teenager become so silent that you wonder if you still speak the same language? Are you hanging onto each syllable, trying to glean one iota of information about what's going on in his life?
Don't despair. You're not alone. Many parents of adolescents struggle when it comes to communicating with their children. But while kids' movements toward independence are normal between the ages of...
Cancer is the leading cause of death in children after congenital abnormalities and road traffic accidents. In Singapore approximately 100 children are diagnosed with cancer each year.
Common Types of Child Cancer
Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is the most common cancer in children. It occurs in about 60 per cent of all childhood cancers. This is followed by brain tumours which occurs in...
Contrary to the belief of some parents, police officers, and other professionals familiar with firearms, many young children are strong enough to fire most commercially available guns, according to an article in the December 1995 issue of the AMA's Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine.
Sara M. Naureckas, M.D., Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, Ill., and colleagues tested the pull...
