Ths the awkward time of the year for a young chid who prods back to school after a holiday break only to find himself prone to fever. As such when there is a transition in weather with the odd rain, the immunity tends to take a...
The never ending stream of cars and buses on our roads, airlines cutting the skies with streaks of smoke, booming economy facilitating sky scraper constructions and industrialisation of our peripheries have all led to a polluted...
Come winter and the monsoon there is a preponderance of attacks of bronchial asthma even as asthmatics shield themselves well from the chill of the season. This is a disease which is on the rise in the population due to various...
It is that time of the year when the chill of winter is in the air as the kids get the second break from school and it is just the time for the festive celebrations when this dry, racking cough irritating and hurting the throat...
The tympanic membrane is the receptive part of the ear which trembles at any acoustics and transfers it to the three small bones in the ear and through them to the auditory nerve for us to enjoy the pleasure of hearing.These...
If there is one sickness that has kept away man from the workplace in the history, then it has to be the upper respiratory tract illnesses. Come winter this tract which includes the nose, pharynx, voice box and the sinuses is the...
If one’s nose tends to flow continuously or refuses to open and is regularly blocked , most likely the person is suffering from Allergic Rhinitis. It is not a life threatening disease, but it can cause a lot of discomfort...
Sore throat is a common feature and the peak of cold months is a time when the chance of this irritation is likely to strike. It is one of the most neglected symptoms as the patient waits for it to subside on its own and only...
It was on the first lunar day of the Kartik month that Lord Krishna lifted the Govardhana Hill to provide shelter to the inhabitants of Vraj or Vrindavan. Lord Indra was upset that the citizens of Vrindavan were offering prayers...
Health of humanity faces many challenges and three salient ones.First would be infections where in the bacteria, viruses and the fungi are waiting for an opportunity to overwhelm by sheer numbers. Second comes the metabolism...