Growing pains in children can be distressing for the parent and child, but there are no long lasting consequences. Classical growing pains in children occur in in the upper part of the calf muscles or back of the knee. Typically it causes night-time foot pain. They do not occur in the knee joint and they do not occur in the bone. They usually wake the child from sleep. The child can normally be got back to sleep with reassurance and gentle rubbing of the area. The reason growing pains in children is important is that the pain on very rare occasions can be due to something very serious, so they do need to be carefully evaluated. Sometimes stretching before bed time can be helpful. If they are keeping the child from sleeping, then anti-inflammatory drugs can help some. The cause of growing pains in children is not known, but is likely to be biochemical and maybe related to muscular fatigue. Despite it being very common not a lot is clearly known about growing pains in children.
May 8, 2011
May 7, 2011
Foot Detox is a Scam
Detox has become the big alternative treatment method for increasing body health. There are books and courses for the ‘body detox’ or ‘liver detox’. Masses are flocking to buy these products and do a detox. There are many testimonials on how good it is (ever heard of the placebo effect?). One of the latest one to hit the market and being touted online is the foot detox. This involved some pads with an electrical current placed in water with the feet that is supposed to work by removing toxins from the body. There are many claims for how well this is supposed to work and lots of testimonials about how well it works (ever heard of the placebo effect?). As evidence that it works is the claims of the changes in the colour of the water as the toxins are removed from the body. It has been well shown that a foot detox does not work. The change in colour of the water is just due to simple ionization and not a foot detox. The foot detox is a scam. The foot detox scam has been well illustrated on a number of You Tube Videos.