Baby vaccination

Vaccination is a small disease, but it protects children`s organism from further troubles. However, some parents keep on doubting it. Do our children need vaccination? And if yes, then why?

What are prophylactic vaccinations?
During vaccination, doctors inject a special vaccine in organism. No matter how paradoxical it may sound, but a baby receives a “useful dose” of disease. In response to this, his organism produces special cells (antibodies), they protect a baby from sickness. This way immunity is formed. Vaccinated babies don`t catch infection, and even if he does, infections proceeds its normal course and easily. Read more »

Pollen disease

Summer is at the height. Everything is green and blossoming. We should be glad to sun and warmth, but, looking at our own offspring, who sneezes and coughs, we think desperately: “It would be better if spring would come later!”

What does spring bring? Everything starts blossoming with its coming. To be more exact, not blossoming, but filling the air with dust. Air pollen accumulates on pituitary membrane, conjunctiva and mucous membrane, comes to bronchus, contact with skin and causes allergy symptoms. Such people immune system treats harmless substance (pollen) as an enemy by mistake and switches on protective mechanisms at once, which suppress the enemy. Reddening, edema, fever – these are typical signs of struggle, taking place between protective forces of immune
system and alien substances. Read more »

Tonsillitis will lose its ground

I don`t remember the one who said this, but for some reason this phrase
was etched in my mind: the biggest unfairness is when children fall
sick. You will hardly raise an objection against it, when you see that
your child suffering. And even if he was healthy from birth, still
various infections start bothering him sooner or later, and this means
they start bothering his parents as well. Chronic tonsillitis is among
them. Read more »

Your child health

Your child eats too little or, on the contrary, too much, he sleeps bad or has
sudden fits of anger – as a rule, this worries careful parents, the rest are just
giving up on it: why bother because of small things! And meanwhile, some peculiarities
of behavior and state of a child`s organism give warning of his predisposition
to these or those diseases or even of their development long before a doctor diagnoses
them. Read more »