You and your husband’s life will experience a big change once the little one is out into the world, but your body starts facing it the moment you become pregnant. All sorts of hormones start playing around resulting in a variety of symptoms in the ‘to be mother’. One of the most common symptom is …
Yes!!The good news has finally arrived!!You are expecting, calls for a party right?? But beware, the process has just begun. Creation of a new life is one of the most mysterious and miraculous affair known to mankind. The entire activity involves a multitude of factors, all of which need to be in place for a …
Many types of headache exists frontal headache, occipital headache, tension headache and depending on the location, severity & other factors, it can be diagnosed and treated accordingly. Migraine is a type of headache with severe theobbing pain on just one side of the head. Including the area behind ones eye (retro – orbital pain) many …
Hormones are chemicals that those are secreted by certain ductless glands called endocrine glands. These chemicals or hormones travel through the blood and are responsible for regulating most of the functions of the body. These functions include body metabolism, sleep cycle, reproductive cycle, growth and development and body temperature. The endocrine glands in the body …
So it all happened within a week that the sweaters were locked back into the closet to make space for the summer coolers in your cupboard. Bye bye pajamas! Welcome skirts and shorts!! But with this heat, comes an extra baggage of infection. Let us see why? WHICH INFECTION? Urinary tract infections are notoriously famous …
All of us must have watched at least 1 of these movies, Barfi, Koi Mil Gaya, My Name is Khan, Black and the very famous Taare Zameen Par. If you realize, all these movies have one element in common, a mentally challenged patient with difficulty in communication and social interaction. Well, all these characters suffered …
Frequent urination means increase in the frequency of urine i.e more than usual visit to the washroom for a person or increased quantity/volume of urine. It can be during the day or night or for some people only at night (nocturia) Causes Frequent urination could possibly imply many different health problems to simply drinking too …
Terms like acidity, gastritis and stomach ache have become such a common phenomenon these days. You may experience it as an uneasiness in stomach, a feeling of fullness, constant belching, acute pain in upper abdomen, nausea and vomiting. So what exactly is gastritis? It is an inflammation of the lining of stomach caused primarily due …
On this world kidney day, let us take a pledge to take care of our kidneys before they need to be taken care of. Each one of us has two of these organs located in the abdominal cavity, performing the very essential role of excretion of waste material from our body, maintaining our water and …
Last evening my son had an episode of diarrhea, and my mother asked me to give him some antibiotic for his infection. Her statement made me realize how ignorant people are of the usefulness of bacteria. An ailment that is caused by disturbance of normal bacterial flora in the human body was being thought of …
