As miserable as a cough can make your kid — and you — it does serve an important purpose: “That forceful exhalation of air propels mucus, bacteria, and other irritants out of the airways,” explains Thomas Ferkol, M.D., director of pediatric allergy and pulmonary medicine at Washington University, in St. Louis. While that’s all well and good, relief is all anyone really wants. The key to finding it? Knowing what’s causing the hack to
Summer’s over and the backpacks are overflowing with this year’s school supplies. You can most likely rest assured that during the day your child will enjoy many learning experiences. There will be science, math, reading, arts and crafts, maybe even music. But then you wonder…what about after school, what will your child be doing between the final bell and the time everyone is at home again?
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• It is a physiological phenomenon due to spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm.
• it is mostly not a Warning sign for any critical illness which usually stops spontenuously.
• it is frequent in children and is usually more tolerable by them compared to the adults.
• it might interfere with breast feeding as the baby will stop suckling during Hiccup.
• It is more common with overfeeding or air swallowing with teat use.
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A new study undertaken by the Dutch government has recently uncovered that pregnant women who consume nuts daily during their pregnancy have a 50% increased chance of having a child with asthma when
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