7 Mistakes That Can Boost Your Blood Pressure
Did you know everything from the size of the blood pressure cuff, your posture, to whether or not you have to go to the bathroom can affect your blood pressure reading? WebMD gives you a perfect live example of how to measure blood pressure at home while keeping other important points into consideration.
Vaccines which are effective against the covid-19 delta virus
The delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, which was first identified in India, is now the dominant form of the virus in the UK. In the USA, at least 10% of new cases are with this variant. The report puts the protection from requiring hospital treatment for COVID-19 at 71% after one dose and at 92% after two doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine was 94% effective at preventing hospitalization after the first dose and 96% after two doses.
How often should you cut your newborn’s nails?
Are you scared of your baby hurting himself with his own nails? It is fair for them to hurt every other day as they are constantly growing their skin is rejuvenating and if you notice, a single scratch today will heal tomorrow by itself. You don’t need to cut their nails either. It will wear off on its own when they are playing and for older babies try to cut nails while they are calm or sleeping.
What’s in a child’s smile?
Smiles and frowns are the first way your baby relates to you. When you and your child smile at each other, it releases chemicals in your bodies that make you both feel happy and safe. Different chemicals interact with a baby’s nervous system in different ways and even play a role in how the brain grows and develops. For ex, high-stress levels can interfere with a baby’s learning and overall development.
How to respond with positive attention to your child?
Your child needs to be valued, motivated and pleasured from the time of birth from others. Positive attention and reactions form a picture of how value they are. There are ways you could respond positively in your daily activities like changing nappy, supervising bath or cuddling, tickling your toddler while he is angry or sit with your arm around him while watching television.
Those with severe COVID rarely gets re-infected, study says
A recent report from the University of Missouri researchers claim that people who have had severe COVID-19 and worry about going through another bout of it can relax. New research finds that less than 1% of people who’ve had a severe infection get re-infected. From the study, only 0.7% of patients with a severe covid-19 infection contracted the virus a second time.
Menopause and Dry Eyes: What’s the Link?
Menopause causes changes throughout your whole body. If you’re experiencing dry eyes because of hormonal changes, there isn’t much you can do other than treat the symptoms. This could be home to many bacterial infections, corneal ulcers and could also lead to abrasions. However, many dry eye treatment options are available to help ease your systems.
“फॉल्स प्रेग्नेन्सी" के संकेत क्या हैं?
जी मिचलाना, थकान, स्तनों में सूजन, आमतौर पर यह देखना आसान होता है कि गर्भावस्था के ये लक्षण गर्भावस्था के साथ जुड़ जाते हैं। लेकिन दुर्लभ मामलों में, ऐसा नहीं है।
एक फॉल्स प्रेग्नेन्सी को एक प्रेत गर्भावस्था के रूप में भी जाना जाता है, या क्लिनिकल शब्द ‘स्यूडोसाइसिस’ द्वारा। यह एक असामान्य स्थिति है जिसके कारण एक महिला को विश्वास हो जाता है कि वह गर्भवती है। उसे गर्भावस्था के कई क्लासिक लक्षण भी होंगे। लेकिन यह गर्भपात से संबंधित नहीं है। फॉल्स प्रेग्नेन्सी में कोई गर्भाधान नहीं होता है। इसके बावजूद, महिला के लिए लक्षण काफी लंबे समय तक रह सकते हैं।
5 Parenting Styles and Their Effects on Life
There are four widely researched styles of parenting: authoritative, permissive, authoritarian, and neglectful. The styles range from controlling to undemanding, and from cold and unresponsive to loving and receptive. In recent years, over-involved parents, who are present in every aspect of their child’s life, are often referred to as the fifth style. They are also known as snowplough or helicopter parents.
Can Mindfulness Help Ease Migraine?
For people who suffer frequent migraine episodes, medications can help prevent them. But they're not always enough. A mind-body practice that combines meditation and yoga might help people better manage migraine pain, a new clinical trial finds. The trial, which tested the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction, found that the approach helped relieve depression and disability.
What Is Evaporative Dry Eye?
Evaporative dry eye (EDE) is the most common form of dry eye syndrome. Dry eye syndrome is an uncomfortable condition caused by a lack of quality tears. It’s usually caused by a blockage of the oil glands that line the margins of your eyelids. These tiny glands, called meibomian glands, release oil to cover your eye surface and prevent your tears from drying out.
Processed foods are linked to risk in hight and weight issues in children
Almost every educated parent would not feed their children processed food but little do they know that these processed foods could highly risk heart problems for kids in future. High-processed foods are made primarily from substances extracted from food, including fats, starches &sugars. The most common processed products are fast foods, stored frozen food, desserts and dairy products.
Hearing screen process in newborns
A baby may look healthy but can be born with a hearing problem. The hearing process varies in different countries. It helps identify babies at risk of hearing loss. If found early, babies can be referred for additional testing. Before a baby leaves the hospital, a health provider will place a soft earphone in the baby’s ear that plays sound. This checks how the ear and brain respond to sound.
Umbilical cord prolapses during pregnancy
Umbilical cord prolapse is when the umbilical cord slips into the vagina (birth canal) ahead of your baby during labor and birth. The cord can get pinched, so your baby may not get enough oxygen. For most babies, umbilical cord prolapse doesn’t cause problems. But if your baby’s not getting oxygen because the cord is pinched, it can cause stillbirth unless your baby’s born right away. Stillbirth is when a baby dies in the womb after 20 weeks of pregnancy.
क्या गर्भावस्था के दौरान स्ट्रेच मार्क्स से बचना संभव है?
पर्याप्त पानी पीने से आपकी त्वचा को हाइड्रेटेड और मुलायम रखने में मदद मिल सकती है। रूखी त्वचा की तरह कोमल त्वचा में स्ट्रेच मार्क्स विकसित नहीं होते हैं। अनुशंसित दैनिक पानी का सेवन पुरुषों के लिए 104 औंस और महिलाओं के लिए 72 औंस है। कॉफी जैसे कैफीनयुक्त पेय पदार्थ पीने से वास्तव में स्ट्रेच मार्क्स विकसित होने का खतरा बढ़ सकता है। यदि आप कॉफी पीते हैं, तो सुनिश्चित करें कि आप अपने तरल पदार्थ के सेवन को भरपूर पानी, हर्बल चाय और अन्य कैफीन मुक्त तरल पदार्थों से संतुलित कर रहे हैं।
How the food you eat affects your brain
When it comes to what you bite, chew, and swallow, your choices have a direct and long-lasting effect on the most powerful organ in your body: your brain. So which foods cause you to feel so tired after lunch? Or so restless at night? Mia Nacamulli takes you into the brain to find out.
Is sorry the toughest word to teach your toddler?
Along with words like ‘please’ and ‘thank you, the other important word your child must learn is 'sorry'. It is hard to make a small kid understand what is right and wrong but it is important to start bringing these two concepts into their awareness as early as possible. You can begin by explaining the meaning of an apology when he makes a mistake, expect defensive behavior at the start but that's OK.
Give your infant a better sleep with a silent sound and light
You don’t need to shut down your TV or close the doors so that noise does not disturb your baby’s sleep, that is not required. Infect children can sleep with some noise, it gives them a sense of your presence and doesn’t need to be in a totally dark area. The same goes with the lights, you can dim down the lights at night, and during the daytime just close the blinds or curtain for him to sleep in peace.
