http://www.medical-health.info medical health cancer acne medical malpractice health insurance mesothelioma Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:03:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Human feet have it much tougher than feet belonging to four-footed animals. Just two human feet must support the weight of the entire body. And both feet must be in good working order for a human to be able to walk or run. A four-footed animal manages to get along ... http://www.medical-health.info/feet-foot-doctor-detox-bath-massage-resultat-pain/ Except for our eyes, our hands are probably our most valuable possession. We use our hands for so many different things it's almost impossible to think how we could manage without them. As an experiment, try not using your hands for an hour and see how handicapped you feel. Have ... http://www.medical-health.info/hands-arthritis-surgery-itching-nails-prosthetic-joint-pain-brace/ In the first set of teeth that a child grows, there are twenty teeth, sometimes called "baby teeth." These first teeth must be taken good care of, even though they will eventually come out and will be replaced by thirty-two permanent, or second teeth. If we neglect our first teeth ... http://www.medical-health.info/teeth-tooth-whitening-grinding-implants-bleeching-sensitive-veneers/ Many of us pay no attention at all to our ears and to our hearing. We take it for granted that we will hear well at all times and that our ears require no special care. This is certainly not true. Since the middle ear is connected to the nose ... http://www.medical-health.info/ears-syringe-thermometer-infection-inner-adult-middle-protection/ Our eyes are so precious that we should always take good care of them. And even though they are pretty well protected by our eyelids and eyelashes, and by the bones of our skull that surround them, we must remember that our eyes are right on the surface of our ... http://www.medical-health.info/laser-eye-diseases-surgery-cost-treatment-cream-itchy-health/ Practically every human being and every animal likes to bathe and to be clean. Did you ever watch birds take a bath? They love it. Did you ever see how happy a cat is when it licks itself clean? Did you ever see a dog that wasn’t happy and proud ... http://www.medical-health.info/bathing-and-nasal-sinus-acne-washing/ Although children should not practice first aid when an adult is present and able to do it, there are still occasions when a child is the only one available. It is therefore a good idea for boys and girls, especially older ones, to know where their parents keep first aid ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-supplies-kits-registry-training-courses-certificate/ Practically any animal who comes in contact with a human being may bite. Most often it is because they are frightened or annoyed or angry. Everyone knows it isn’t a good idea to tease a lion or tiger, but even some animals who aren’t ferocious at all may occasionally bite. ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-animal-dog-snake-spider-flea-bites-lawsuits-claims/ Cardiac massage means massaging the heart. It is done in an emergency when a person’s heart stops because of a heart attack, or because breathing has stopped. Children are seldom able to carry out cardiac massage, but they may be interested to know how it is performed so that they ... http://www.medical-health.info/perform-cardiac-massage-congestive-cardiac-failure-massage-bypass-surgery/ Although young children are not old enough to carry out artificial respiration themselves, many of them may be interested to learn how it is done. Artificial respiration can save lives in cases of drowning, suffocation from smoke or gas poisoning, electric shock, drug poisoning, cold exposure, or heat exhaustion, and ... http://www.medical-health.info/types-artificial-respiration-mouth-accouchement-diseases-therapy/ Most nosebleeds stop by themselves within a few minutes. If they don’t, first aid measures may control them without too much trouble. Here’s what should be done: 1. The child should be in a sitting position. 2. The bleeding nostril should be packed tightly with a piece of clean absorbent ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-for-stop-child-nosebleeds-treatment-prevention-gr-cauterize/ Some foolish children play so hard and long in the heat or hot sun that they become sick. They perspire tremendously and lose a lot of salt from their body. In some cases, their exposure to intense heat causes their temperature to go sky high. Here is the first aid ... http://www.medical-health.info/treating-heat-exhaustion-stroke-causes-sign-symptoms/ Human Bite Perhaps the most serious bites occur when one person bites another. Infection results more often from human bites than from animal bites! That is because we have the type of germs in our mouths that can cause an infection in another human being. Dogs, except for rabies and a ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-for-human-bites-and-frostbite/ Practically any animal who comes in contact with a human being may bite. Most often it is because they are frightened or annoyed or angry. Everyone knows it isn’t a good idea to tease a lion or tiger, but even some animals who aren’t ferocious at all may occasionally bite. ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-for-other-animal-bites-dog-mosquito-lawsuits-settlement/ Cats scratch more often than they bite, but some cats bite quite often, too. In many ways cats act a great deal like dogs. They scratch or bite when they are frightened or angry. In addition, they often scratch without meaning to hurt anyone. It seems they just don’t know ... http://www.medical-health.info/anti-cat-scratches-and-cat-bites-allergy-rabbies-bites/ Everybody, especially children, loves dogs. They are wonderful animals and certainly make great companions. But, unfortunately, children don’t always know what goes on in a dog’s mind, and as a result, they often get him angry without knowing it. Naturally, when a dog is frightened or annoyed or angry, he ... http://www.medical-health.info/dog-bites-symptoms-injury-compensation-law-claims-new-jersey/ If a person is bitten by a snake, a tourniquet should immediately be placed above the bite to slow down the venom’s getting to the heart. The tourniquet must be loosened every 20 minutes to allow circulation to return. 1. A tourniquet should be placed above where the bite has ... http://www.medical-health.info/snakebites-coral-copperhead-kits-treatment-prevention-veins/ Sooner or later, every child gets bitten by a mosquito or stung by a bee or wasp, or, occasionally, bitten by a flea, tick, spider, or chigger. As we know most of these stings and bites cause pain and itching and, usually, a good deal of swelling and redness. Here ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-for-insect-bites-identifying-blister-swelling-symptoms/ When someone is injured severely, it is often difficult to tell whether a bone been broken, or knocked Out of lace, or whether a ligament or muscle as been torn or sprained. Often,, this information must wait until the injured person can be taken to a doctor’s office or to ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-for-sprains-broken-bones-and-torn-ligaments-and-cartilages/ If gas from a stove or oven has caused the poisoning, turn the stove or oven off immediately. If the gas has come from a running car motor, turn the ignition off immediately. If the gas has come from a kerosene heater, shut it off immediately. If the gas has ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-for-gas-and-smoke-poisoning/ Occasionally people swallow a poison, or take pills that may poison them, or eat food that accidentally contains poison. When this happens, the quicker that action is taken, the better. The very first thing the first aider should do is call the poison control center (or a doctor or hospital) ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-for-swallowed-poisons-food-skin-child-claims-lawyer/ A foreign body is any substance that doesn’t belong in the body. It can be a speck of dust or a splinter or something a child has stuck into his body, or dirt or a piece of glass, or anything else. 1. Foreign bodies in the eye are best treated ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-for-foreign-bodies/ Superficial cuts may bleed a great deal, but simple pressure applied over the cut with the palm of the hand or fingers and a clean handkerchief or piece of gauze is usually enough to control it. 1. Clean the cut or scratch with warm running water and ordinary soap. Let the ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-for-cuts-scratches-treatment-bruises-scratches/ First aid means helping someone who has met with an accident or has become sick suddenly. Generally, the best thing to do is call a grownup, who will undoubtedly contact a doctor, or if no doctor is nearby, he may call the police. But quite often, children themselves must do ... http://www.medical-health.info/first-aid-treatment-prevention-child-emergency/ Sooner or later, every one of us has an accident, but luckily, we manage to get over most of them without getting hurt too seriously. Some children, however, are careless and they have accidents more often than those of us who take good care of ourselves. Naturally, all girls and ... http://www.medical-health.info/accident-prevention/ The female organs consist of the external genitals, near the surface of the body between the thighs, and the internal genitals, inside the body. They connect with one another through the vagina and the cervix of the uterus. The external female organs are composed of the vulva and the vagina. ... http://www.medical-health.info/the-female-organs-vaginal-bleeding-yiest-infection-itching-dryness/ The male organs are the penis, the prostate gland, the seminal vesicles, the testicles, and the epididymis with its attached tube, called the vas deferens. These appear to be difficult words, but it is not difficult to explain what these organs are and how they work. The penis is made up ... http://www.medical-health.info/the-male-organs-semen-sperm-count-test/ It doesn’t hurt to be operated upon because one goes to sleep and feels no pain while the surgeon is doing what he has to do. No matter what the operation, whether it is the removal of tonsils or the appendix, or the fixing of a hernia, pain is never ... http://www.medical-health.info/anesthesia-and-surgery-detox-liposuction-surgery-education-acupuncture/ Hospitals are fine places, because that’s where sick people go to get better. Without them, it would be much more difficult for doctors to cure their patients. And there is another reason why hospitals are great. Do you know what that is? Well, it’s where your mom went to have ... http://www.medical-health.info/toys-gifts-children-child-clown-hospital-cheer/ Many infants are born with some kind of birthmark or mole somewhere on their bodies. They may appear as a light pinkish spot on the face, neck, or torso, or they may be a coffee-colored mark. Occasionally, a child is born with a deeper red wine-stain birthmark. Unfortunately, many of ... http://www.medical-health.info/laser-treatment-surgery-birthmarks-moles-and-warts-removal/ A parasite is a plant or animal that lives on the outside or inside of another plant or animal. It gets its nourishment from the animal or plant on which, or in which, it lives. Some parasites are so small that they can only be seen under a microscope. For ... http://www.medical-health.info/symptoms-tick-parasite-infection-medication-cleanse-diet/ The kidneys filter out waste materials and poisons from the blood and get rid of them in the urine. However, sometimes the blood that reaches the kidneys is so full of toxins (poisons manufactured by germs) from a severe inflammation elsewhere in the body that the kidneys themselves become inflamed. ... http://www.medical-health.info/kidney-stone-disease-bladder-infections-bladder-cancer-treatment/ A hernia, or as some people call it, a rupture, is a weakness in the wall of the abdomen. It allows intestines or other tissues from inside the abdomen to bulge through the weakened area. The two most frequent places for hernia in children are the bellybutton and the groin. ... http://www.medical-health.info/hernia-women-surgery-diet-bloasted-abdominal-fat-liposuction/ By the time a child reaches three to four years of age, he can control his bowels pretty well. Once in a great while, an accident does happen, but that’s not a serious matter. It can happen to a grown-up, too. But it is rather important to develop good bowel ... http://www.medical-health.info/irritable-bowel-function-syndrome-diet-natural-medication-gall-bladder/ Until recently, appendicitis was one of the most common conditions affecting young people. Except for removal of the tonsils, removal of the appendix used to be performed more often than any other operation. However, within the past fifteen to twenty years, inflammation of the appendix doesn’t take place so often. ... http://www.medical-health.info/appendicitis-remove-small-intenstine-appendix-pain-symptoms/ Many people think that the stomach takes up, or occupies, the whole belly area. This is not true, as one can see from the diagram. The stomach is mostly in one corner of the belly, high up on the left side underneath the ribs. In addition to the stomach, the ... http://www.medical-health.info/stomachaches-stomach-ache-constant-causes-children-child-diarrhea/ Many years ago, rheumatic fever was one of the most common and one of the most serious diseases affecting children. A child with this condition would run a very high fever that would come and go almost every day for a period of a few weeks to a few months. ... http://www.medical-health.info/polymyalgia-rheumatic-arthritis-disease-symptoms-fever-conditions/ 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 ... http://www.medical-health.info/pneumonia-mrsa-recrotizing-children-interstitial-babies-cure-dust/ 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. ... http://www.medical-health.info/chronic-bronchitis-asthmatic-treatment-cure-antibiotic-asthma/ 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 ... http://www.medical-health.info/sinus-infections-antibiotics-chronic-sinus-infections-remedies-cure/ 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 ... http://www.medical-health.info/catching-cold/ 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, ... http://www.medical-health.info/prevention-treatment-influenza-incubation-symptoms-period/ 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. ... http://www.medical-health.info/treatment-for-fractures-osteoporosis-lumbar-spine-heel-stress/ 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 ... http://www.medical-health.info/sprains-and-broken-bones-compensation-treatment-knee-ankle-prevention/ 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 ... http://www.medical-health.info/treatment-causes-leg-chest-neck-muscle-spasms-pains-strain/ We are surrounded by a tremendous number of things in this world. There are millions of plants and trees and flowers; there are millions of insects and fish and furry animals; there are tremendous amounts of dust and pollens that travel through the air on the winds; there are vegetables ... http://www.medical-health.info/mold-pet-food-dog-gluten-allergies-medicine-medication/ Anemia is a condition in which there are too few red cells in the blood or too little iron in the red cells. Sometimes, anemia is caused by too few red cells and too little iron in those cells. There are many different kinds of anemia, and before anyone can ... http://www.medical-health.info/food-diet-cure-mediterranean-anemia-children/ Youngsters are pretty good at fighting infections, and it doesn’t make much difference whether the infection is brought on by bacteria or viruses. But some things are important: Children must be in good general condition, or else it will be much more difficult for them to overcome an infection; furthermore, ... http://www.medical-health.info/antibiotics-treatment-yeast-urinary-tract-bladder-kidney-ear-mrsa-infections/ Sooner or later, everybody gets a cut or a bruise or a scrape. Of course, if we are careful, it won’t happen as often as it does when we are careless. Most of these injuries seem much worse than they actually are. For example, some cuts look as if there ... http://www.medical-health.info/healing-cuts-liposuction-skin-bruises-womb-scrapes/ We certainly are lucky that our brain protected by the nice thick of our skull. Think of the many times that we bump our head edges of doors or fall accident and strike our poor head on the floor and ground. Our brains sure get pretty soft if they didn’t ... http://www.medical-health.info/compensation-treatment-signs-traumatic-baby-head-injuries-children/