Keep your children cleaner than normal

Article Abstract:

An epidemic of dysentery caused by a bacterium, Shigella sonnei, has affected thousands of young children in the Northwest, Hull, Yorkshire and the West Midlands. In the first weeks of 1992, 7,518 cases were reported in England and Wales. Young children do not understand the need for hygiene and the symptoms develop so quickly that parents unknowingly send their children to nursery school when they are harbouring the bacteria. Now that more children go to nurseries or mix with others at childminders while their parents work, they are more vulnerable to the disease. There is no drug treatment.

Pediatric diseases, Children, Demographic aspects, Diseases, Shigellosis, Bacillary dysentery

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When going on holiday makes you sick

Article Abstract:

Dr Kenneth Koch, a gastroenterologist at the Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania, conducted research into motion sickness which established that the hormones epinephrine, norepinephrine and vasopressin affect the stomach when sufferers travel. The eyes and ears process contradictory messages resulting in electrical disturbances in the stomach. Dr Keith Reid and Mohammed Khan of Sheffield University Centre for Human Nutrition demonstrated that the rate at which the stomach empties is affected by the messages received by the eyes and ears.

Research, Travel, Physiological aspects, Noradrenaline, Norepinephrine, Epinephrine, Gastroenterology, Vasopressin, Vasopressins, Physiology, Motion sickness

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Divorce is bad for you, try again

Article Abstract:

Divorce is so common in the 1990's that couples with marriage problems do not consider any other answer. Forty per cent of marriages end in divorce but the unhappiness it causes is as bad as the unhappiness of the marriage. Violence is obviously grounds for divorce, but if a couple has children, it is preferable to compromise to make a marriage work. The financial consequences of divorce cause difficulties. Many divorcees wish they had remained married. Children of divorced parents do less well at school and are more disobedient.

Social aspects, Usage, Behavior, Marriage, Family, Children of divorced parents, Marriage counseling, Divorced parents, Divorce counseling, Broken homes

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