Peter Nisbet's Articles in Health & Fitness

  • A Mother's Instincts.
    A mother knows when her child is ill. She has an instinct which tells her that all is not well, even when professional doctors and physicians can see nothing wrong. She can tell in many ways; she sees the signs only a mother would notice. Sometimes a mother's instincts can save her child's life.
  • How Vaccines Work
    How vaccines work to stimulate the body into producing antibodies is a fascinating study irrespective of your views on them. In spite of many opinions, it has been demonstrated that vaccination can strengthen resistance to bacteria and viruses generally and help reduce the effects of secondary infections.
  • The MMR Controversy: Do You Know The Facts?
    Since Andrew Wakefield's paper in the Lancet in 1998, the safety of the MMR vaccine has been in question and uptake has driopped to 60%, exposing many children to the potentally fatal measles. This report has now been discredited, and Wakefield seems to have had a considerable financial interest. Still, the controversy rages and the children suffer. What are the facts we are allowed to know?
  • Advice to Parents on Childhood Measles - Part II
    In part II of this article measles symptoms are described in the order in which they would be expected to appear, and advice given on when to call a doctor.
  • Clinical Thermometers and Children's Health - Part II
    In Part 1 the need for a clinical thermometer in the home was explained, and in this final part the areas of the body used for temperature measurement are explained together with the types of thermometer available and how they should be used.
  • A Clinical Thermometer Is Essential: Part I
    An increased temperature is the sign of many types of infection in a child, and it is essential that this can be measured. Every household with a child should have a clinical thermometer in the medicine cabinet. This article explains why.

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