Colic is a mysterious, frustrating and exhausting condition for both infants and parents. Months or years spent raising a colicky child are fraught with sleepless nights and nearly endless screaming. You may think it will never end, but here are some colic remedies that may help.

The exact causes of colic in infants is controversial and the condition is thought to be aggravated by a variety of things, including:

* Food allergies (especially to dairy and soy formulas)
* Underdeveloped gastrointestinal tract
* Emotional stress
* General fussiness
* Vaccinations

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The chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission is warning parents to get rid of cheap children's jewelry, and to avoid buying new pieces, because so many items are loaded with toxic lead and cadmium. Read the original article on thedailygreen.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released its latest assessment of the chemicals people are carrying around in their bodies. The biomonitoring study is the most comprehensive in the world, measuring 212 chemicals in the blood and urine of 8,000 Americans.

The CDC highlighted a few chemicals because they are both widespread -- found in all or most people tested -- and potentially harmful. Here's a look at what they are and how you can try to avoid them:

So why do the skeptics love to hate homeopathy? Perhaps because it is one of the most threatening alternative modalities -- financially, philosophically, and therapeutically. Actually, homeopathy has been a threat to allopathy ever since the 1800s, when German physician Samuel Hahnemann developed the homeopathic system.

What if an expensive drug could be potentized to create billions of effective doses at essentially no cost? It would destroy big pharma entirely. Medicines that cost essentially nothing? Nontoxic ultradiluted medicines that cause fewer side effects? How could the coffers of big pharma be sustained? Forget about the Law of Similars. It’s potentization -- the process of creating effective ultradilutions -- that big pharma is scared of! No wonder Baum and Ernst got the word “potentization” wrong. This one word is the small stone that could take Goliath down.

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Gastroenterology Service Children Hospital Dr. Orlando Alassia of our city was involved, along with other health facilities in other provinces-the first multicenter study was conducted in the country on celiac disease, which allowed to obtain data on the prevalence of this pathology in children younger than 16 years.

Of the 2219 samples were included in the study, for children between 3 and 16 years, 430 were contributed by the Alassia. "We did a check on blood samples from patients who entered the operating room, and above this, was analyzed with a determination of transglutaminase. All determinations were centralized in a laboratory in Buenos Aires. Of all the samples yielded the following results: 29 were positive (although 7 patients had previous diagnosis, why did not need to ask bowel biopsy). Of these samples were 22 biopsies in patients. We found a prevalence of 1.26%, ie 1 in 79, with a predominance of females, "said the professional.

And he stressed: "This is a before and after: no country in the determination of prevalence of celiac disease. Data are completely different in Latin America and also in the rest of the world. "

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