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Stress and Children

Posted by Monica Wednesday, December 30, 2009 0 comments

Bringing up children is certainly one of the most rewarding experiences, but also one of the most exhausting full-time jobs imaginable if you are coping with their incessant demands 24 hours a day. Children develop amazingly quickly, and keeping up with-let alone adjusting to – their changing needs, can be a highly stressful business.


Caring for children can also lead to a special kind of isolation in which stress very easily builds up, particularly if you live in an area where facilities for children are not readily accessible, and if you have to rely on public transport or take a baby and toddler along with you to the supermarket. Anyone who has experienced the difficulties of getting pushchairs and children simultaneously on and off buses, or pushed a shopping trolley to control young children at the same time, knows just how stressful it is, and how tempting it can be to stay at home with the children- but that ca be just when things get harmfully stressful. Coping with childhood illnesses, too, and difficulties at school, about which there’s more, can be every bit as stressful for parents as for children.

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PREPARATIONS AND PRINCIPAL INDICATIONS

Posted by Monica Saturday, December 26, 2009 0 comments

Hi guys, I want to share the health tips about Sulphadimidine. This is the sulphanamide of choice for general purposes as it combines effectiveness with low toxicity. Sulphadimidine is rapidly absorbed and relatively slowly excreted in the urine in a fairly soluble form. An effective concentration in the blood ca usually is maintained by administration every four to six hours. Sodium salts are available for intravenous and intramuscular administration if the patient is vomiting or comatose. Children tolerate relatively large doses at 1 year one-sixth of the adult dose, at 3 years one-third doses. At 1 year one-sixth of the adult dose, at 3 years one- third, at 6 years two-thirds and from 12 years onwards adult doses should be given. Palatable suspensions are available for administration to children. The principal indications for the use of sulphadimidine are as follows.

Sulphadimidine is given in an initial loading dose of 2-3g. followed by 1 g. four-hourly for the first 48 hours and six-hourly thereafter until three or four days after the pyrexia subsides. Penicillin is preferable in the elderly or if the infection is severe. Thanks guys.

The dual-career marriage

Posted by Monica Wednesday, December 23, 2009 0 comments

Marriages in which both partners work are increasingly common a fact which may in itself be a partial answer to why so many marriages also suffer from stress and run into trouble. A working husband and wife have much to offer each other apart from increased relief from financial pressures which a dual income brings; they will both have more to talk about apart from principal common interests like home and children. Very importantly, each partner will be aware of the kind of stress the other may undergo from time to time at work, by being able to identify with the problem through shared work experience. However, the stressful side of the dual career situation arises when work interferes with the quality of home life. Tired at the end of a working day, perhaps neither partner will have the inclination to talk or listen to each other, or their children; there is just not enough time or energy to enjoy being at home to the full.

Significantly, although career couples are expected to have more egalitarian values than those where the wife does not work, household tasks still tend to be unevenly distributed: it estimated that 65 percent of married women in Britain work. But recent survey indicates that 73 percent of women do nearly all the housework, and in equal division easily capable of turning into stressful issue. Stress between a husband and wife who both works can also become particularly acute if the work itself causes feelings of rivalry or resentment. This is a very common state of affairs if the if earns more than the husband, or if she has gone back to work or taken a job after a umber of years at home. Jobs change people, and new interests, contacts, and increased self confidence in a working wife may be reflected in feelings of inadequacy and insecurity in her husband.

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Stress at Christmas

Posted by Monica Saturday, December 19, 2009 0 comments


For a number of reasons, Christmas can often turn out to be one of the most stressful times of the year. This is very likely partly because, coming when it does; Christmas is often a time when one tends to assess the year gone by, with its disappointments as well as its achievements. also, simply because it is the traditional season for getting together and exchanging greetings , Christmas family gatherings can be notoriously stressful occasions as well, fraught with tension and friction which seem almost inevitable when family members possibly meet only once a year. And celebrating Christmas is unfortunately now such a commercial enterprise that the preparations start earlier and earlier each year, and the build up can seem endless. It’s only too easy to try to do far too much, and get tired and stressed.


One way to counted this is to be as well organized as possible, by working out a really manageable count down well in advance, and sticking to it. Another is to stop and remind you what Christmas is all about, and this is when the simplest of shared preparations can often result in the most successful celebrations, with a really happy, stress free Christmas for everyone.

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Disease commences as a mild blood stream infection

Posted by Monica Wednesday, December 16, 2009 0 comments

Hi guys. The disease commences as a mild blood stream infection and accordingly the clinical manifestations are gradual in onset and variable. The symptoms in order of free quench are sweating, weakness, headache, anorexia, pains in limbs and back, constipation, rigors, cough sore throat and joint pains. The spleen is palpable in about 20 per cent. Of cases and a variable rash occurs in about 10 per cent. The temperature characteristically shows undulations, during which febrile and afebrile periods alternate. In other cases the Pyrex may be continuous and sweating may be profuse. Untreated, the disease may last for a few days or continue for many moths, and in the latter case the patient often becomes extremely depressed or irritable. Neutropenia and lymphocytosis usually occur in the more severe case. Sub-acute arthritis of one or more joints may occur. The spine is often the site affected and occasionally radiological charges due to osteomyelitis of a verebra can be demonstrated. A paravertebral abscess, which is rare, may be distinguished from tuberculosis by the fact that there is less destruction of the intervertebral disc. The diagnosis of undulant fever can usually be confirmed by blood culture or by agglutination tests. Other conditions causing prolonged fever, such as tuberculosis, enteritis fever, and subacute bacterial endocarditis must be considered in differential diagnosis. Thanks guys.

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