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The craze that is sweeping the world about eating healthier food and eliminating as much as possible saturated fats and high on calories from our diets has also reached young mothers, a recent study has shown. Eager to keep their toddlers...
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Influenza, or the flu, is one of the most common contagious viral infections, so much so that it even got it own season, from November to April. However, it is often mistaken for the cold, mostly because they have a few common symptoms, and treated a...
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Too much of a good thing can turn out to be damaging and this is exactly what happens with fruit juice and children who drink it in high amounts. Far from deeming it as unhealthy, experts do warn parents that an increased intake of said beverage can ...
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If you have a child with allergy, then you surely know how it feels like to see him or her getting red, swollen and having respiratory problems on a regular basis. Despite the fact that allergies are considered by many to be mild health problems, the...
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The North American diet could be a bad choice for health because it is deficient in omega 3 fatty acids, according to a recent study carried out by researchers at the Child & Family Research Institute. This type of unsaturated fatty acids play a cruc...
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Most teenagers (and also quite a large part of adults, but this is a whole new story) live under the impression that if they skip breakfast they are going to lose weight or prevent pounds from piling up, because instead of three main meals a day they...
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Arthritis is usually associated with old people and it has come as a shock to medical experts anywhere in recent decades to find out that this fearful and highly painful condition is growing more and more common in children. As we all probably know, ...
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If we have recently talked about constipation and how common it is in little children, we should not forget about the other, opposite stool problem that can give our little angels a hard time and at the same time give us major headaches. Because bein...
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If until now there have been raising concerns about elevated salt intake in adults, scarce have been the studies focused on the toll too much salt in diet can come to put on the health of children. If until now researchers have shown that increased s...
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We have already talked about ear infections and we have seen how common they are in children. As a matter of fact, I am sure that each and every one of you out there who are reading right now this article have struggled with ear infection at least on...
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In the previous article on the topic of child nightmares we have found out that most of the times there is no reason for parents to get too worried if their offsprings have nightmares quite frequently and we have also learned which are the best thing...
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If until a while ago a higher than normal body mass index (BMI) and therefore being heavier than the others was to be blamed mainly on the lifestyle a person leads, more than a couple of recent studies have been focusing on the connections between th...
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Oh, those dreaded nightmares that do not leave your sweet kid rest properly at night and bring him scared and with tears in his eyes in your room... Is he having problems or suffering from certain emotional disorders? Should you be worried? How can y...
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Even though constipation and different other issues related to digestion make taboo conversation topics, it is not the situation here, because the moment you have clicked and entered our 'Healthy Child' category, this shows that you actuall...
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Cold medicines are among the most popular remedies to be bought by people. While many of us do not completely understand that a virus that has entered our body needs its time to manifest and then goes away most of the times on its own, therefore refu...
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Fish has been known for quite a while know as one of the most beneficial foods for our health. Besides the fact that most types of fish are incredibly low caloric, they are also fully loaded with essential fatty acids - better known as omega 3s and 6...
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Recently, there has been a lot of talk on how lack of sleep and overall unhealthy sleeping habits can come to negatively influence adults' BMIs. And as it has been repeatedly proved by scientific research that not getting enough or proper sleep ...
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All parents - and not them alone - are completely aware of how hard it is to persuade a little or even bigger child into eating their daily dishes of fruits and vegetables in order to boost their stamina and overall health. They are craving for unhea...
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Concerns about the consistently increasing number of girls who develop eating disorders must be known to just about anyone out there by now. Starting from a very early age, girls in nowadays society don't want to look pretty and cute anymore; in...
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Our children are extremely fragile and if not taken good care of, they are quite likely to develop a wide range of health problems, both physical and emotional. But today we are going to focus on a specific type of physical problem that is extremely ...
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Asthma is one of the most popular health disorders of the century and many experts claim it to be as dangerous and fast-spreading as obesity, even though not at all contagious. Due to a large array of both external and internal factors, asthma c...
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Ear infections occur so often in children younger than 5 years of age that this has driven some experts to say that their frequency could be compared to that of changing diapers. Well, this is obviously a hyperbole-based association, bu...
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Though this is not a real illness or disease, but a cosmetic condition, I think that no one likes having the enamel of his teeth damaged and spots every here and there on them. This is why experts warn that while one's teeth are still ...
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Mumps is yet another viral infection that, unlike many others, does not trigger a rash as main symptom and instead it makes the parotid salivary glands swell and, therefore, give the patient a very distressing and annoying sensation acc...
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Hand, foot and mouth disease is very akin to other childhood infections such as measles, chickenpox etc., in which one of the main symptoms is a rash appearing on some distinct regions or all over the body. It is a viral illness and hig...
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In the last article in which we took a closer look at the conjunctivitis condition we found that it can have more than just one cause and, therefore, be of different types - the viral, bacterial, allergic, toxic and STD-triggered pinkey...
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Conjunctivitis, popularly known as pinkeye or bloodshot eye is a condition that usually appears in children, but this does not mean that there have not been a great number of cases when it occurred in adults and even elderly people. In ...
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From the very start, I must caution that this is one of the most dangerous and harmful childhood diseases that used to make many victims until the vaccine against it was developed in the 1940s - just to make an idea about how perilous t...
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Even though not many parents know about it and neither is it included among the 'childhood diseases', the roseola infantum disease - commonly known as the three-day-fever or three-day-measles - is very popular among children w...
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First of all, I would like to point out the fact that chicken pox is very much like measles, with only a few differences, therefore if you have already dealt with one of them, you will be ready to face the other, too. However, check out...
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