HealthCare

‘Summer Vacations! Holidays!’  Wow, what a great sense of relief it used to offer from hectic life of school, classes and tests-assignments. Come summer vacations and parents frown on the very thought of their children glued to TV/Mobile sets with non stop and endless views to Soap operas, Mobile games and endless Youtube or Social Media sites. During our time of schooldays, we too relived similar moments but then that was not an era of internet, no AI nor were there any 24*7 Cable TV network/endless reality shows leaving us with no option but to visit homes of grandparents, read comics, play outdoor games(cricket, hide n seek especially) and make friends. Except touching our books or feeling nervy about finishing home assignments on time, our fun and enjoying quotient never had any bounds. We too used to get bored but then as per words of Bertrand Russell “A certain power of enduring boredom is therefore essential to a happy life, and is one of the things that ought to be taught t...

With tick season in the offing in US and probability of rise in tick infection higher this year, its important to have in place sufficient safeguards to protect oneself and your pets.   Weather and climatic change conditions   does play an important role in the severity of a tick season. But the tick that experts warn of the most is a common blacklegged tick, which is found mainly in forests and spreads Lyme disease. Photo by Erik Karits on Unsplash What are Ticks?  Ticks are small, eight-legged bloodsucking parasites — arachnids, not insects — that feed on animals and sometimes people. Some ticks are infected with germs that can cause illness, and they spread those germs when they bite. They can’t jump or fly onto their hosts, instead, they hang out on a branch or a blade of grass with their legs outstretched and wait for people or animals to pass by so they can grab on and bite. Blacklegged ticks — also known as deer ticks, since they feed on deer — are among the most c...