Vitamin Supplements and Your ChildWritten by Jeff Matson
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When your child reaches age of about 2 (and older) and is eating solid foods from all food groups, vitamin supplements are usually not necessary. Try and provide adequate amount of vitamins and minerals to your children through foods they eat regularly. Sometimes this can be an impossible task and if you think your child is lacking sufficient amounts of vitamins, 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 ensure 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 into world of medicine , initially they were used judicially but nowadays as more and more antibiotics are being developed and there has been a pressure over 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 if dose is much larger than expected then it may lead to accumulation in 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 in body, which at times may be quite severe. But most important problem and problem, which has attracted much concern among medical fraternity, is that of resistance. Certain microorganisms for e.g. Staphylococcus are known to get quick resistance against 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 to drugs or making them inactive or mutating themselves, etc. What is latest research going on? At present latest research that is going on is to how to reduce use of antibiotics by using them judicially so that microbes might not fall to prey of resistance and then be of no use to us.
Mansi gupta writes about Antibiotics topics.
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