Expert's advice: Cold weather is increasing, do not take medicine indiscriminately if you have a cold As the country, including Kathmandu, has started to experience extreme cold, experts have suggested not to buy medicine if you have a cold this season. Children and senior citizens especially need more care during the winter season. Experts have urged people to take necessary precautions, saying that children are more likely to suffer from respiratory problems, colds, throat infections, stomach aches, etc. during the winter season. Pediatrician Dr. Ramhari Chapagain of Kanti Children's Hospital says that respiratory problems, pneumonia, and 'cold diarrhea' (cold-related diarrhea) are more common during the winter. 'Nutritious food is needed to protect children from colds. Although children need nutritious food at any time, they need it more during winter than at other times. It helps in digesting common diseases,' he said. He also said that all the vaccines pro...
Threats to human health when pesticides try to protect crops Raju Thapa of Dang's Tulsipur sub-metropolitan city-12 Dokrena has cultivated vegetables on 10 bighas of land. In his farm, which has been cultivated commercially since 2076, vegetables such as Parsi, Golvenda, Cauli are now planted. Thapa had planted 'Gaurav' and 'Chow' varieties of Golva in 3 out of 10 bigha fields. However, the sheep named Chow suddenly died. When the ripening lambs started dying rapidly, he called a technician and administered medicine. But the golbenda plants did not stop dying. Showing the calculation that it cost 10 lakhs to plant this farm, Thapa says, 'If we could have sold all the fruits, we would have earned 18 lakhs. Every year such a problem occurs in some crop. When the problem started, I tried to save the vegetables, even if it was by using pesticides. In Thapa's experience, efforts to save vegetables through pesticides and medicines have become regular and mandator...