Have you tried analyzing how the body functions when you get ill? Let’s take a simple example of a common cold. When we catch a cold we experience uncomfortable symptoms like a runny nose, congestion, sneezing and sometimes low-grade temperature. This lasts for around 3 to 5 days in most cases and then we’re back to normal. Let us try to understand what actually transpires. When a virus enters our body, being a foreign object, the natural tendency of our body is to eliminate it. It does so by making us sneeze, generate mucus etc. These defense mechanisms are triggered by our…
Author: Sabeeka Lambe
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A few months ago I was filling the school admission form for my elder daughter. While doing that there was one question that I didn’t have an answer to. That question was “Name & contact details of your family physician”. While thinking about what to fill in, I realized that in spite of being in the same city – for the past 8 years, we had not visited a doctor a single time. We have been to a dentist, once an ENT for the hubby, had been to pediatrician for vaccines and kids but nothing other than that. One of…