Keep your baby clean.

Inflammation of hair follicles starts as soon as hair damage takes place. Although there is no age predilection for development of follicultis, children and folliculitis go hand in hand. For obvious reason of:

1) Underdeveloped immune system: this weak link makes a child more prone to  suffer from diseases including folliculitis.

2) Bad hygiene: This is in part because of carelessness of parents for not keeping good child hygiene. Not changing soiled cloths promptly, results in itchy skin and hair damage. Not taking regular showers after school or sports activity creates favorable ground for follicultis in children, using common swimming pool or hot spa with group or community exposes a child to follicultis due  less common bacteria.

3) Tightly packing an infant while traveling or making the child wear cloth of polyester material. This may cause sweating and friction on skin and which leads to follicultis in children.

4) Diabetes:  Type 1 diabetes in a child or adolescent  makes a child more susceptible to get skin condition from mild follicultis to boils on different areas. The immune system is compromised. Children with HIV/AIDS have very low immunity and get infected readily by fungi and yeast.

Follicultis in children has the same initiation as it occurs in all other age group. Hair   damage for any of reason mentioned, and exposure of follicles to micro-organism present on skin of child as normal flora. The most common locations for follicultis in children, are scalp, buttocks, arms and legs and face. Commonly as it happens children recover from folliculitis if early and proper care is taken. The lesion is typical with small red pimple on locations  where hair follicles are present. Effected child has mild to moderate itch, with tender pimple and a white head due to pus inside. The   surrounding skin also is tender.

It usually resolves without aggressive treatment while keeping good hygiene of child . But delay may result in its progression to:

A) Development into a boil: in which the small red pimple becomes larger as pus collection continues.

B) Developement into furunculous: Which is a condition when boils spread in chain pattern by forming tunnel under superficial layer. This gives appearance of bunch of boils!

C) Development into cellulitis: More deeper involvement  present as wide spread cellulitis. When this happens, the child may show signs of  fever, chills and fatigue.

Management of children with follicultis: The following are some common and regular practices parents have to adopt when it comes to treating follicultis in children at early stage:-

a) Regular bath with anti-septic soap and drying immediately, usually makes follicultis heal and disappear.

b) Hot and moist compresses to effected area, will sooth itching. Use of calamine lotion is also very effective cooling agent in controlling itching and limiting folliculitis to small area.

c) Use of over the counter steroids of mild strength to relieve itching and inflammation. Application of hot and moist swabs also help give comfort from itching and clean the effected skin from dead tissues.

In case the above measure do not control pediatrician will advise for culture of   effected lesion, be it a boil, small abscess or skin scrapings. This will help in finding specific organism causing follicultis in your child.

Most common bacteria which is involved  is staphylococcus aureus. Measure usually advised are ;

1) anti-bacterial lotion hexachlophene wash.

2) anti-biotic local cream/lotion containing either clindamycin or erythromycin, twice daily application.

3) oral anti-biotic tablets or syrup formulation. Cephalexin or erythromycin may be given for 7-10 days. In resistant cases combination anti-biotics such as trimathoprim- sulfamethoxazole ,or amoxicillin and clindamycing are advised.

4) If fungal infection is the cause of child with follicultis , pediatrician may advise ketoconazole cream, or meconazole cream/ointment may be used twice daily for 14 days. 

The best part of children with folliculitis is keeping a standard hygiene, early detection and home based or over the counter treatment to prevent aggravating folliculitis in children.

Nature has the cure.

 Time has come  for the medical practitioners to put more focus on treating human ailments through remedies available in nature, as well as bringing  changes in their clients   life style which , based more on having healthier diet, and good physical activity. In following paragraphs  we can make our assessment as to how much herbs in nature can treat diseases, unlike synthetically produced drug ,, without putting health into risk.

Apart from being a natural cure for cholesterol, IBS, diabetes and other diseases, aloe vera is most importantly a cure for cancer. It is a miraculous medicinal herb that prevents illnesses. It has been proved beyond any doubt that , so many of  diseases, no matter how trivial or serious they  are , the cure is better available in nature than in synthetically produced  drugs.

I have many feed backs on this from my clients, as a physician, that alternative medicine , based on herbal ingredients, not only cure , but that they don’t have any side effects, almost all synthetically manufactured drugs do. Taking Aloe vera ,as an example, comes the best, be it skin problems,  to as once thought untreatable Aids.

The juice extracted from Aloe vera plant so abundant , even in most of  dwellings  , has proven to be a life saver for so many of asymptomatic HIV positive patients. This alone is a good lead for, all those engaged in medical profession to focus more and more on treating patients with natural herbs medicines, rather than synthetic drug produce.

As we further deepen our research and data , it becomes more evident  ,that cancer once thought incurable , can effectively be suppressed to stage of total remission and cure by natural herbs . Aloe vera again has proven its efficacy.

Gallbladder health

Its location is precisely under the right lobe of liver , more or less on right of midline of abdominal cavity. It acts as storage and concentrating sac for bile produced by the liver(hepatic) cells. As we all know that bile is juice , needed for the digestion and easy absorption of  fats , fat soluble vitamins, and to neutralize acidity of partly digested meals.

It is common seat of  disease processes, effecting ,fatty fertile  female of forties and plus.
The most common of ailments that originate is gallbladder stone, technically termed ,cholelithiais, and resulting from an imbalance between the elements comprising bile.
Most of the cases are symptomatic, but some are detected on routine sonograms. The symptoms, range from severe acute or recurrent pain on right side of abdomen ,known as billiard colic, with or without rise in temperature.

The gallbladder stone can become a chronic or illness of long standing, giving a new face to a pre-existing condition, now termed cholecystitis. Although pain occurs with same intensity but in this happening ,it is accompanied by vomiting, fever and diarrhea. Although cholecystitis can develop in the absence of any gall stones, it is less common a feature. In either of situation ,pre-surgical antibiotics  treatment is also needed to clean the infected organ of bacteria and thence avoiding complications.

The treatment of choice in both condition is ultimately, removal of gallbaldder,  as at present time cholecystectomy(removal of gallbladder) involves lesser surgery than it was few years back. This can be done either as by traditional open method or laprotomy, or by laparoscopic method ,in which small holes are made to make an approach to gallbladder.