Vitamin Supplements and Your Child

Written by Jeff Matson


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When your child reachesrepparttar age of about 2 (and older) and is eating solid foods from all food groups, vitamin supplements are usually not necessary. Try and providerepparttar 143961 adequate amount of vitamins and minerals to your children throughrepparttar 143962 foods they eat regularly. Sometimes this can be an impossible task and if you think your child is lackingrepparttar 143963 sufficient amounts of vitamins,repparttar 143964 best thing to do is to contact their doctor who will recommend whether or not vitamin supplements are necessary. It is important to remember that vitamin supplements are meant to accompany food and are in no way meant as a replacement for a healthy diet.

Health-related information changes frequently, and while every attempt has been made to ensurerepparttar 143965 content in this article is up to date and accurate, you should always check with a doctor or nutritional expert before undertaking any substantial change in diet or lifestyle.

Jeff Matson is an avid health enthusiast who owned and operated his own natural health food store. Now retired, Jeff spends his time keeping fit and writing articles as a contributing editor for http://www.vitamin-insight.com - a site that offers information on vitamins, medicinal herbs and other supplements.


Antibiotics 101- What You Absolutely Need to Know

Written by Mansi gupta


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After their discovery and then introduction intorepparttar world of medicine , initially they were used judicially but nowadays as more and more antibiotics are being developed and there has been a pressure overrepparttar 143960 physicians for an aseptic environment , these type of drugs seem to be overused. This has caused many fold problems. One problem is of toxicity that means that ifrepparttar 143961 dose is much larger than expected then it may lead to accumulation inrepparttar 143962 body and may even lead to death in some cases. Second problem is of hypersensitivity, which means that certain antibiotics for e.g. penicillins can cause hypersensitive reactions inrepparttar 143963 body, which at times may be quite severe. Butrepparttar 143964 most important problem andrepparttar 143965 problem, which has attracted much concern amongrepparttar 143966 medical fraternity, is that of resistance. Certain microorganisms for e.g. Staphylococcus are known to get quick resistance againstrepparttar 143967 antibiotics and you need to be cautious before using them blindly.

What do we mean by resistance? By resistance we mean that a microorganism is either not responding or responding minimally to an antibiotic to which that microorganism used to respond earlier. There are numerous mechanisms by which they develop resistance and this may be making themselves impermeable torepparttar 143968 drugs or making them inactive or mutating themselves, etc.

What isrepparttar 143969 latest research going on? At presentrepparttar 143970 latest research that is going on is to how to reducerepparttar 143971 use of antibiotics by using them judicially so thatrepparttar 143972 microbes might not fall torepparttar 143973 prey of resistance and then be of no use to us.

Mansi gupta writes about Antibiotics topics.


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