Reading Time: 2 minutes Asthma is a chronic disease of lungs. It is caused by hypersensitivity of airways to certain allergens in the atmosphere. It can affect children and adults equally. Good thing about childhood asthma is that many children come out of it by late teens. If any child has this allergic disorder, Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Dear friends, with the onset of winter season, risk of flu and chest infections starts rising. Also, outdoor air pollution is an important contributor. This year pandemic of coronavirus is another big enemy of our lungs. Well, we can prevent corona by mask and social distancing only . However, there Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes Around 50% newborn babies develop jaundice after birth. It usually starts around third day of life, peaks around 5th day and starts decreasing by day 7-10. In many babies, it is a small increase in bilirubin levels , called “ physiological jaundice”. This usually does not require any treatment. Your Read more…
Reading Time: 4 minutes A few months ago, I was running after my kiddos to get them to eat when I got a call from a school friend. We had studied together till high school, but had lost touch over the years. Well, we were reunited by Facebook (social media has a few advantages, Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Thank you, dear friends, for your love and appreciation on my previous two write-ups. Here I come with another issue related to our daily lives. We, as modern day parents are too busy juggling between household, parenting, and work. As most of the times both the parents are working (whether Read more…
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dr. Anuradha Bansal is actively involved in training and talks with fellow doctors and health workers. She delivered a talk on newer rotavirus vaccines at IDICON organized by the Jalandhar Academy of Paediatrics on 17.6 18. She discussed about childhood respiratory infections in United airways module conducted by Jalandhar Read more…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Childhood vaccines: so many….how many? 30,000! 30,000 Rs??? Yesss, this is the cost of optional vaccines for a baby for the first two years of life and health insurance does not cover it In my last thirteen years of practice , I have seen many parents saying, “Sirf free injections Read more…
Reading Time: 2 minutes So finally after the long wait,, monsoons have blessed north India. Temperatures have dropped and there is greenery all around. But, BUT! BUT! BUT! If rains are here, can monsoon illnesses be far behind? They are right here knocking at our doors and we have to shoo them away before Read more…