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...
Can measles be prevented by vaccination? Measles has existed in society for hundreds of years. The physician Abu Walker wrote about this disease for the first time in the tenth century. But the virus that causes this disease originated in the world 2600 years ago. Centuries ago, even doctors had trouble telling the difference between measles and smallpox. It was only in the seventeenth century that the British government listed these two diseases separately. Measles is a highly contagious disease. One infected person can infect up to 18 people. Before the introduction of the measles vaccine, the disease was widespread around the world, and countless children died because of it. It is estimated that more than 2 million people worldwide died from measles before measles vaccines were available. If a person who has not been vaccinated against measles gets infected with measles, 10 to 30 percent of those infected may die due to complications. In 1874, a third of the infected died in a ...