Charak

My once warm and friendly daughter began showing signs of irritability, mood swings, and general listlessness at the age of 8. The once upon outdoor-loving girl who would run and jump around, now stayed indoors and declined meeting her friends. Her behavior disturbed me. I didn’t know what was causing her to be this way. […]

Menarche is the first occurrence of menstruation in a girl. Most girls experience menarche between the ages of 11 and 15. A few percentage however, experience menarche at the tender ages of 7, and some even earlier than that. If it starts before the age of 8, it is known as Early Menarche. Early menarche […]

As a woman, you probably remember all the details of how you got your first period – when and where it started, and how you were treated. Many of us wish we were treated differently or we were a little more prepared for the visit. In today’s ever evolving world, many factors are now responsible […]

Chronic pain is more than just pain. It erodes one’s self-confidence and even self-worth cum identity as it keeps troubling on the conscious mind relentlessly. Only the sufferer can know the true extent of the havoc it causes on one’s personality. First and foremost the pain shows on the facial expression and overall demeanor of […]

Allergy is in the air. Not just the anti-human type we all suffer from in our workplace or during the election campaign, but the real medical type. One with the nose running and eyes watering with a touch of breathlessness thrown in. Or even the more severe form of chest cold that borders on asthma […]

Does the fear of rectal pain or bleeding grips you every morning? Are you challenged with piles? Piles, also known as “Hemorrhoids” in medical terms, are swollen, inflamed blood vessels in rectum (end part of large intestine) and the anus (the opening to pass stools). The bulging vessels and the supportive tissues around the anus […]