Archives for June 2007
Pneumonia
Pneumonia is an infection of the lungs, caused either by a bacteria or a virus. The commonest bacteria is a germ called the pneumococcus, but the disease can also be caused by other bacteria such as the streptococcus, the staphylococcus, Klebsiella, and others. One of the most common viruses to affect the lungs is the [...]
Bronchitis
Bronchitis is an inflammation of the air passages leading to the lungs. Actually, the condition should be called traronchitis because the trachea (the windpipe in the neck and upper chest) is almost always involved in the inflammation, too.
Bronchitis often comes on after a very bad cold or sinus infection. It is usually caused by a [...]
Sinus Infections
The ordinary cold, followed by an infection of a sinus, is seen in large numbers of children who live in places where the temperature changes greatly from season to season. Children who live in climates where it is nice and sunny and warm most of the time do occasionally get sinus infections, but not nearly [...]
Catching Cold
Everyone hates to get a cold. Who wants to have his nose run or to cough or to feel stuffed up, anyway? And then, too, most colds are accompanied by a sore throat, a fever, and eyes that are red and teary. Sometimes, when a child has a cold, he develops aches and pains in [...]
Influenza
Influenza is a disease caused by a virus. It affects the nose, throat, windpipe, bronchial tubes, and lungs. Of all the contagious diseases, influenza is one of the most easily spread from one person to another. There are many different kinds of influenza viruses; some cause only a mild illness, others can make a person [...]
Treatment for Fractures
Girls play almost as many strenuous games as boys, and so they, too, strain muscles and ligaments, and break a bone occasionally. And when a girl skis or plays hockey or basketball or tennis, she must do the same things the boys do if she wants to avoid serious injury.
People used to be happy when [...]
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Sprains and Broken Bones
The wild way some children play, it is no wonder they sprain a muscle or ligament, twist an ankle or knee, and sometimes even break a bone. The remarkable thing is that sprains and broken bones don’t happen more often. Luckily, children have muscles and ligaments and tendons that are much more elastic than they [...]
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Growing Pains
From time to time boys and girls may come on until several hours later may feel pain in their hips, thighs, or legs. that time, the child may have forgotten that these pains come and go, sometimes about straining himself or herself during the day and sometimes while in bed at night. People used to [...]