(BlackDoctor.org) – It’s natural for new parents to be feel overwhelmed by all the potential health risks that exist for a newborn baby. But potentially more devastating is the harm that can be caused by an illness that is innocuous-seeming nature, such as Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). Like it or not, your baby may be more at risk than you think.
(BlackDoctor.org) -- Do you think the worst of it is over? If you do, sorry to break the news, but we’re not free and clear yet. Cold and flu season lasts from September until May.
Over 200 viruses can cause the common cold, and new strains of the flu are constantly developing. Because colds and flu don’t respond to antibiotics, preventing either one of them can be quite the tricky task.
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(BlackDoctor.org) -- As a young adult aged 19 to 24 years, you may think you can handle anything, but there’s a very good chance that the 2009 H1N1 flu (sometimes called “swine flu”) will bring you down this year - seriously. This new flu virus, which emerged in the spring of 2009, may be circulating in your social circles, meaning you need to take extra care, since this flu is hitting young people particularly hard. That’s why the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is
(BlackDoctor.org) -- It is flu season now. Hence, parents need to know all about flu and do everything to prevent flu in children. Influenza, commonly called, the flu, is a viral infection of the upper respiratory tract that sometimes spreads to the lower regions of the airway. The infection is contagious that spreads even through infected droplets generated by a cough or sneeze from an infected person and his/her oral secretions like saliva.
Parents often tend to mistake flu as just common cold.