There is no specific treatment for whooping cough, but if the cough is severe and causes breathing difficulties, your doctor may recommend that your child be admitted to hospital for close nursing care. Coughing bouts can be quite frightening, both for the child and the parent. Keep your child in a warm room. A humidifier [...]
“Could you get it stuck in there? Can you get stuck together?”
A vagina and penis can never get stuck together. There are a lot of stories about sex that you will hear, and unless they come from someone you love, or from someone who somebody you love told you to listen [...]
He thinks I am some kind of sexual perpetual-motion machine. He even tells people that once he turns me on he can’t tum me off. Absurd. I get to a point where stimulation actually hurts. Maybe all those other women can go on forever. I can’t.
WIFE
I have already discussed the “sexual witch” mythology, and myth [...]
Dr. Carol Gilligan, in her book In a Different Voice, summarized the complex issue of gender roles. She suggests the same-gender caretaker experience of young girls predisposes them toward empathy through the sameness experience, an emphasis on relationship and a fear of desertion and separation. Autonomy becomes problematical for the woman who is [...]
Arthrosis occurs when the wearing out occurs faster than the tissue can be replaced, the cartilage softens, develops cracks and may even wear completely through exposing the bone. Irritation to the bone then causes damage, small splits and overgrowth as the bone thickens and proliferates.
Small projections of bone (osteophytes) may project around the edges of [...]
Crohn’s disease, which is also an inflammatory disorder of the lower bowel, may be mistaken for it at times.
Although nervous factors were once thought to be a cause of this complaint, it is now accepted that the associated anxiety and depression may follow the disease rather than cause it.
In treatment, a diet high in residue [...]
The child may sit for hours staring at one object or repeatedly carry out some simple act.
Autistic children may respond poorly to some sounds, ignore others or sit listening to a sound such as music for hours, but with no outward sign of enjoyment.
Because of these factors, the children do not mix well with others. [...]
Symptoms
Child wakes screaming; confusion on awakening; frantic activity on awakening; sleepwalking.
Home care
Rouse the child slowly and gently.
Hold the child and speak soothingly and reassuringly.
If the child is sleepwalking, make sure he or she cannot fall or get hurt.
Precautions
- Frequent nightmares indicate that the child is under excessive stress; try to identify and relieve the problem. If [...]
What is it?
Primary infertility (as opposed to secondary infertility which occurs in couples who have already had a baby but have trouble conceiving again) is present when a couple cannot conceive after a year of unprotected, unlimited intercourse. Almost one in seven of all couples in the West are infertile and the number is growing.
What [...]