Category Archives: General health

AUTISM – INTRODUCTION

There are several thousand children in Australia who are locked in a world of their own. Children who do not seem to understand love and affection and who do not seem to return it. These children are autistic. The cause of this distressing condition is unknown, but current theory believes it is due to some [...]

CHILDREN’S NEPHRITIS: SYMPTOMS, HOME CARE, PRECAUTION AND TREATMENT

Signs and symptoms In most cases, the first sign of nephritis is the child’s producing urine that is a smoky color or brownish-red and tinged with blood. The child may have puffy eyes and run a fever of 38.3°C to 38.9°C for several days. In severe cases, the illness produces high fever, headache, vomiting, high [...]

CHILDREN’S INFECTIOUS DISEASES: IMMUNISATION

There is a different schedule of immunization times from country to country and there is a good case to be made for delaying immunization against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus until the second half of the first year of life in children in industrialized countries. The reasons for this are as follows. First, infections of [...]