High grade fever in children under 7 years of age can sometimes lead to febrile fits. The fits occur commonly in children under one year of age and occur when fever is high grade. These last for a few seconds to a minute. The child goes to sleep after that. If fits keep on recurring, the child …
Health officials in Pakistan have reported an ongoing outbreak of XDR typhoid fever(extended drug resistant typhoid fever) that began in Hyderabad in November 2016. This strain of XDR typhoid doesn’t respond to most antibiotics used to treat typhoid fever. This outbreak has reached in most parts of Punjab also including Lahore. In my daily clinical …
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Hepatitis A or Hepatitis E spreads by intake of contaminated food or water. Jaundice can become very deep yellow. with colouration of eyes and urine. The child develops fever, nausea and vomiting. The liver enzymes are raised to thousands. Treatment comprises of rest, light diet, anti-emetics. It takes 15 days for it to resolve. Complication …
Prevenar vaccine is a pneumococcal vaccine given from the age of 2 months onwards. Three doses are given each one month apart and the fourth booster dose after 1 year. it is also part of the EPI schedule. It provides protection aganst both pneumonia and meningitis due to pneumococcal bacteria. pneumonia being infection of the …
The perfect vision is 6/6. If children watch too much television or stay too long on the computer eyes are affected by too much radiation. same applies to using too much mobile. The child complains of headache off and on and watering of the eyes. Eyes maybe red too. children should read in bright light …
The most cause of anemia in children & women in Pakistan is iron deficiency anemia. 40% of our children under 5 years of age have iron deficiency . the common cause of iron deficiency in children include poor diet
As we all know that breast milk is the blessing of Allah for a newborn. Islamic teachings strongly recommend breastfeeding for ;
Incidence of Vitamin D deficiency in Pakistan is around 40% in children and mothers. In Lahore it may be worse because of high pollution index which prevents Sun
Measles is a preventable infectious disease. Good Vaccination prevent it completely. In Pakistan , in recent decade, outbreaks of
Since the induction of antibiotics into medicine in 1940, antibiotic have been a key component of modern healthcare. Antibiotic have saved billions of life since then but injudicious & unnecessary use of antibiotics resistance.
