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Epilepsy Medication

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

My 16-year old daughter’s seizure / epilepsy medication?
My daughter aged 16yrs , had first seizure in school in October,2000 at the age of 12 yrs.Carried out EEG and MRI.The result of MRI was normal.The result of EEG showed paroxysmal activity i.e epileptiform .Doctors advised that they do not prescribe any medicines after first seizure [...]

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Child, Pain in Feet, Legs, Painkillers

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

Kid’s Health
hi doc!
my daughter of 9 years been complaining of her feet/leg pain on DAILY basis since she was about 1 yr old.she was born with c-section in india and has no health probs of any kind.otherwise healthy normal kid but been complaing of her mainly both feet being in pain.she has been taking childrens [...]

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Exercise Make my Daughter’s Face Red Hot

Sunday, February 5th, 2006

KID’S HEALTH
My daughter is 10 years old and a little over weight. When she exercises or plays sports and she gets hot, her face turns really really red. What is this and do I need to be alarmed or should I take her to her doctor?
Dr. Joshua’s Answer:
It does not sound alarming. Perhaps [...]

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Panic Attacks and Lump in Throat

Friday, December 9th, 2005

i AM 14 YEARS old i have panic atacks some times and couple of days ago i woke up with a sore throat i let it try to get better but it dident so then what happend is i had a panic atack like it was hard to breath my hands where shaking chest pains [...]

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Badly behaving daughter

Sunday, May 15th, 2005

I am a unemployed welfare mother of 3 children… I am writing to you about my daughter….
She is 9 yrs old and we have done everything possible to try to help my daughter…she lies, steals, cheats, and in general does everything to make sure that everyone around her is distracted and or hurt. She is [...]

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“10 years old and constipated”

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

J. asks about her 10-year-old daughter’s constipation:

My 10 year old daughter suffers from severe constipation. She has suffered for almost a year and a half now. We have been to the pediatrician many many times and don’t get too much help. They performed an X-Ray and found that her “whole system” was “stuffed from top [...]

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