THURSDAY, (HealthDay News) – Children treated with acetaminophen (paracetamol) during the early days of life to reduce fever have more chances to develop asthma later on, a new study finds. It was a large study conducted in 31 countries around the world.

These children are also more likely to have diseases such as rhinoconjunctivitis and eczema when they reach to the age of age 6 to 7, according to new findings published in The Lancet.

“If this association is causative, it would suggest that acetaminophen use is a risk factor for asthma and may explain the asthma has become more common,” said lead researcher Dr. Richard Beasley. …Click here to read more

A new study suggests that older fathers may have children with bipolar disorder. This risk begin to increase when men are older than 29 and they get married. And it reaches at its peak when men are over 55.

Some other diseases like schizophrenia and autism are also linked with increasing parental age, but it’s a first study that suggests bipolar disorder or manic depression also has link with increasing parental age.

This Swedish study has been published in Archives of Psychiatry and it tells that ageing sperm may be a factor behind that increasing risk.

The Karolinska Institute researchers say in this connection, it involves copying DNA in the process of making sperm in men and this process is considered prone to error as men get older.

Emma Frans, who led the study, said: “Women come in this world with their full supply of eggs and that’s why DNA copy errors do not increase as women get older.”

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As soon as children start speaking, they have lots of questions to ask. They ask many questions that we feel difficult to answer. But answering to their questions is very important. Children will learn from our answers. Children questions reveal a great deal about their power of understanding things.

Even when children do not know how to speak, there are many core questions that they ask many times each day. They have many questions in their mind, which are unknown to us due to absence of language.

If you do not know the answers to their questions simply say that you do not know. If you are embarrassed or uncomfortable to answer any of your child’s questions, do not give wrong answer. Children learn that answer from you. Giving wrong information will only create confusion to them when they grow up. Do not avoid to answering their questions. If you can’t answer immediately in case if it is not the appropriate place to talk about, tell them that this is not the proper place to talk. It is a surprising fact that how many questions can be answered in a day, and how much information a little brain can acquire.
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It is confidence that makes people realize who they are and what they can do. Confidence and self-esteem are two such elements of our personality as always prove helpful to remove even the biggest hurdle or difficulty that come in our way while marching towards some goal. If these two elements are missing, even tiniest problem of life looks like the Great Wall of China. This world has been created for the people who astonish every one in a sudden by doing something exceptional and usually people with unshakable confidence have the ability to do so.

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