Strong bones, happy tummies, fewer sick days — yes please! Vitamin D and probiotics are the dream team every parent needs to know about. Here’s how this powerhouse duo helps boost your child’s health, immunity, and mood from the inside out.
From misinformation to missed diagnoses, poor foreskin care is causing pain, infections, and even surgery for boys. Paediatric Urologist Professor Paddy Dewan shares commonsense advice to help parents cut through the myths, care for their sons with confidence, and keep them healthy from baby to teen.
Between sick kids, crazy schedules, and zero time to spare, telehealth is the parenting lifeline you didn’t know you needed. From medical certificates to late-night GP chats, here’s how you get fast, reliable care with the click of a button.
What is high cortisol? How do you know if you have it? And what can you do about it?
As a mum, you’re no stranger to juggling multiple responsibilities—getting the kids ready for school,…
Dawson’s Creek icon and former teen heartthrob (to many) James Van Der Beek has revealed he’s battling stage 3 colorectal cancer.
Ever had one of those days where everything goes wrong, and you’re left wondering why you’re still standing? Well, Seventies Baby captures exactly that in her hilarious and painfully relatable 24-hour journey as a sick mum. Spoiler alert: it’s not. Whether you’re dealing with sick kids or pushing through illness yourself, this mum’s candid thoughts are guaranteed to hit home!
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) affects each child differently, making the journey for parents both unique and challenging with communication, behaviour, and social interaction. Most recently, parents are focussing on the gut-brain connection and the impact that probiotics have on the children’s behaviour.
When you’re pregnant, it’s normal to feel hot, sweaty, and itchy. But sometimes extreme itching during pregnancy can be a sign that something is wrong. This is what happened to US mum Christine, who assumed her extreme itching was simply due to the fact she had recently moved to a drier climate. But it was much more than that.
Nine-year-old Fraser Suggate was initially told he had gastro and anxiety, but thanks to his mother’s unwavering determination, the real and more sinister diagnosis was finally uncovered. “Go get a second opinion, a third, go get a fourth opinion until you’re completely satisfied. If I had taken the word of other people I may not have my son with me.”
Today my son came home complaining of a blocked nose, headache and facial pressure. I told him he most likely had sinusitis or a sinus infection due to a cold he’d been battling for a week. Are sinus infections contagious? I wasn’t 100% sure on anything about sinus infections, other than I know they can really hurt.
A new drug has made its way to Australia. Nitazenes, a new group of synthetic…