Kwashiorkor is a form of under nutrition caused due to deficiency of protein in children. Kwashiorkor develops when, after prolonged breast feeding, a child is weaned onto and inadequate traditional diet of starchy food. It is m…

Marasmus is also called PEM ( protein energy malnutrition) because it is caused due to lack of both protein and carbohydrates. It is a common childhood health problem resulting in chronic diarrhoea and anaemia. It is caused basi…

Common cold is an infectious disease caused by filterable common cold virus known as Rhino Virus. It is easily transmitted from one person to another person by inhalation of droplets of exhaled air contamination of nasal area wi…

The digestive tract is infected by this disease. There is an acute infection due to presence of bacteria called Vibrio cholera. If the feces of one infected person contaminate the food, water, any other edible things, cholera is…

It is a condition, when mucus is discharged from the body frequently with loose stool. It is an inflammatory disorder of intestine, especially of colon. Like diarrhoea, dysentery is also transmitted through the feco-oral route. …

It is a codition of frequent discharge of watery stool. It attacks people in all the age group, though,main victims are children.  Diarrhoea is a normal and easily controllable disease but it has been a major cause of child mort…

Round worms are a type of parasitic invertebrates. Round worms are mostly internal parasite of different mammals like human being. As its name , its body is round or cylindrical and long. Body length of an adult may range from 1…