Children’s Health

A concussion is mild injury to the brain which is caused due to some type of jolt or blow to the head. Anyone can suffer from concussion; adults as well as children. Your brain is a delicate organ made up of soft tissue. It is encased inside the skull for …

Itching is extremely irritating and tickling sensation that is experienced all over skin surface or limited to particular area of the body. In medical terminology itching is called pruritus. Itching leads to scratching of the affected part. This may depend on individualized level of tolerance. Itching in children and toddlers …

Usually babies start saying few words from as early as 8 months of age. They utter words like “mama”, “papa”. By 18 months their vocabulary increases and they may even talk few line. But sometimes child cannot talk till age of two and half. Still it is normal many a …

Fever in a baby or a toddler is the most concerning health problem for any parent. Parents get worried when they feel their baby’s body feels hotter than normal. Warm body is considered as fever by many parents. However it may not be so as the body temperature measured with …

Intestinal worms or parasitic infection is a major health problem all over the world, particularly in tropical and sub tropical countries. These worms are called parasites because they depend completely on the host (human) for their survival. Parasitic infection occurs both in adults as well as children. But in children …

In his book ‘late talking children’, Thomas Sowell has described a term Einstein syndrome for a group of symptoms. The book was published in 1997 and this terminology has been in existence since then. Thomas Sowell is not a medical practitioner but he is an economist. Children with Einstein syndrome …

Neurofibromatosis afflicts diverse parts of the body, including the brain, nerves, spinal cord, skin, as well as the other body systems. It is characterized by the growth of benign tumors involving the brain and nerves. Some children live almost unaffected, whilst some can be brutally affected.

There are 3 categories …

Rapid breathing also known as tachypnea in medical parlance is not uncommon in infants and newborn babies. In fact it can occur at any age with different etiologies. It is usual for infants to breathe at rapid pace and in majority of such cases there is no cause of grave …

Necrotizing enterocolitis develops when the inner lining of the intestines get damaged and start to die. This inflames the intestine. In severe cases, the intestine may puncture. If this happens the bacteria that live in the intestine; can pour out into the abdomen and cause extensive infection. It could become …

Tay-Sachs disease is a rarely seen genetic disorder which is passed from the parent to the child. A child who inherits the anomalous gene from both the parents develops Tay-Sachs disease.

Tay-Sachs disease develops when an enzyme which breaks down fatty substances is not present at all. The fatty substances …