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Head Lice – Is Your Child Suffering With Them Eating Their Scalp

  • Posted on January 23, 2010 at 6:21 am

Have you noticed your child scratching his or her scalp frequently? Or maybe you’ve heard of an infestation of head lice at their school? You can probably discover if your son or daughter has head lice by implementing some simple evaluation at home.


The easiest way to notice head lice is by spotting their eggs in your child’s hair. Lice eggs are also known as nits. Head lice will lay these eggs on your child’s hair shaft close to the scalp. This is why a head check requires looking at your child’s scalp. Before the baby lice hatch, nits look clear, tan, yellow or brown. Once the louse has hatched, the part that is left will remain glued to your child’s hair shaft. This is the easiest thing to see, as it is whitish, and it looks like dandruff. The main difference between dandruff and head lice eggs is dandruff is easily shaken from the hair shaft, while lice eggs are fused to the shaft.


Sometimes you will be able to identify adult head lice on the hair, especially if your child’s hair is short. These critters are tiny, the same size as a sesame seed that you get on your hamburger bun, and they tend to possess the exact coloring as your child’s hair. A lot of parents understand that their little ones are infected when they see the adult lice climbing through their children’s hair.


Head scratching is, of course, an additional sign of a head lice infestation. In saying that, not all children find head lice to be irritating. Also, scratching their scalp might be an indication of other troubles, such as eczema or dandruff. The itching from nits is usually likened to a tickle, or the sensation of something crawling on the scalp.


Children who have sensitive scalps, and spend a lot of time scratching due to the head lice will regularly develop a rash on their scalp. Head lice rash will appear as red bumps on the base of the scalp. It might sometimes turn into a more serious infection that needs antibiotics.


If you think your child may be suffering from head lice, part their hair and observe the bottom of the hair strands for the nits. Pay close attention to the areas of scalp around the ears and neck. If you find it a struggle to focus up close, you might want to try a magnifying glass. Make sure you do the lice checking in bright light.


If you find nothing, but the scratching does not go away, it is time for a trip to the doctor. On the other hand, if there is persistent scratching, and you’ve heard of an infestation at school or day care, you probably can be sure that the cause is head lice.


To cure head lice you can buy a medicated shampoo that can kill the lice. Make sure you follow the application guide to the letter, because improper use will not kill all of the lice. You will also need to comb through your child’s hair with a fine tooth comb to remove any nits that are not eliminated by the shampoo.


When you have treated your child, wash any clothes that are lying around, as lice can live up to 72 hours off of your child’s scalp if they are attached to clothing. Also, boil any objects that come in contact with an infected head, including bows, combs and brushes. It is especially imperative to wash any bedding. Vacuum all furniture and floors. Then watch carefully for signs of any re-occurrence. If it occurs, begin the procedure again. It can be hard work, but it’s possible to wipe out head lice with the correct steps.

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A Short Story-social Service is a Profession

  • Posted on January 23, 2010 at 4:08 am

Social service is a profession.

Dalip Singh Wasan, Advocate.

When I was crossing twenty five, my parents were having worries about my marriage and as per their wisdom and as per their position in the society, they found a match for me. The man was about ten years more than of my age and I had been told that his earlier wife had committed suicide. The facts were not fully known to my parents, but since the man was having a house and was also having a small shop, they convinced me that he shall be providing boarding and lodging to me and this is the ultimate goal prescribed here in India and both parents and the bride are happy that they could find out a match who can bring some income in the house.

I could not consult my friends, because most of my friends had been married and they were not telling me good stories about their married life. The main problems were that the income of the husband was on lower side, he was a drug addict, he was indulging in gambling, he was a drunkard, he was having relations with other women and the like. All these facts were disturbing and therefore, I had calculated that this is the ultimate fate of each of us and therefore, when others are bearing all these difficulties and are still living with their husbands, I too can venture and I actually went to the new house without having any pleasure, any happiness and without having any hopes in my mind.

The first night was nothing more than the sex and I also participated in that course because here in our area this had been the ultimate goal of marriage. I had noted that the man had not prepared himself for the occasion and it had been a simple ceremony. He had been with his friends and when he entered my room, he was fully drunk and took me in his arms and started kissing me here and there and embracing me tightly. Since this was the first time I could have kisses from a man, I enjoyed and placed myself before this man who could utilize me as per his own discretions.

In the morning he again took one or two pegs and was having hungry eyes on my face and on all my rounds and horizons. His sister had been here and when this ceremony ended, she left for her own house and thus we two were left all alone. And this man started living with me and I noticed that the only aim in his life was sex and therefore, as and when he could get time, he took me in his arms, started kissing me and then having his final satisfaction without caring for my participation. I took this all as my fate and started living with the man.

In due course he had started calling his friends to the house to have a face seeing ceremony. All were having praise for my beauty and were telling to my husband that he had been a lucky person who could get such a beautiful girl and they were also telling him that the girl is too young and he was at least ten twelve years older than me. He was having all love with me in their presence and listening praise, he came in motion and took me to the inner room and came out after having sex with me. The friends sitting there had been watching all that and thus one of two started visiting my house when my husband had been out. They talked about my husband and sometime they brought some eatables for me. And I noticed they started touching my body and they started kissing me. I could not raise alarm because I was afraid of my husband. When they left me, they gave me some money and when I handed over this money to my husband, he did not raise objections. I due course I realized that all these visits were preplanned and I had been informed that my husband had been collecting money from them before he allowed them to visit the house.

I had been enjoying my life for some days, but when I talked all this to my mother, she was disturbed and told me that I should not become a prostitute. An Indian woman should not have sex beyond the husband because it is a sin, it is a crime and it is a misconduct. I promised that I would not allow others to have approach to my body and when some one approached me, I came out of the house and started calling other women from the neighbourhood to help me. I noted that one lady had started taking much interest in me. I came to know that she was a social worker. She had started coming to me house and she had been sitting with me for hours together. She took me to the women cell established in the city by the state to help those ladies who are in trouble. I was not ready to lodge a complaint against my husband, because I was having a fear in my mind that my husband shall shunt out me and I had left the house of my parents and that house was not open for me now. I was trying to adjust myself under these changed circumstances. But this lady was not happy with me. She wanted that I should lodge a complaint against my husband and I should name the people who had been utilizing me with the consent of my husband or without his consent. She also desired that I should tell the police that my husband had started earning from his friends and other customers who had been sent to me and who had sex with me.

When I refused to lodge a complaint against my husband, this lady was not happy and then she herself started bringing at least one man with her and she allowed him to have all with me and that too in her absence. She started threatening me that if I raise an alarm, she would tell the people that she herself had called this man and had put her as guard till the course ended.

I went to my parents time and again, but I was not telling what had been happening with me. I told them that all is well at her house. I had been raising objections before my husband, but he usually said, “ I am not earning much. If you have started earning and helping me, it is good and this body is vanish-able and if some people enjoy this body and make payment, it is not good. You are giving them something in charity and this charity concept is very old in India and when we give our body in charity, this is the supreme charity.” This was the life philosophy of my man who had been appointed as my husband by my parents. My parents knew all this but they were not interfering and thus the process continued till that date the people could enjoy my body. And ultimately they left and I noticed that I had to face hard days. I was talking to my mother, “ Mother those were good days when I had been earning and had been running the family administration. Now I have stopped earning and therefore, I am starving and my husband who is al old man is also starving.” My mother was too old and therefore, she could not listen what I had said to her and she put her right hand on my head and said, “ My daughter you are great. I have full hope in you and I shall see that you shall start earning once again”. The social worker had been coming to me and was desiring that I should accommodate some old men and they shall give more money than the young people and they would not be utilizing my body as the young people had been utilizing. I shall remain fresh.” I was surprised to note that this old social service lady was still in the line in this old age. One day I asked, “ Dear aunt, you should leave this line now. Much had been done by you. Now you should have some devotion towards God.” And a very simple reply was from her side, “I have got no source of income and if I stop this work, I shall die of hunger. This work is going on because the old people are also interested in having change and I find out subjects which could give them a change.”

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In Bible versus Quran: the Men of Renown are the Grandsons of God

  • Posted on January 23, 2010 at 1:07 am

The Sons of the Lord God in Bible versus Quran (2)

This is the second article of the series:” The Sons of the Lord God in Bible versus Quran”.

The Bible says that the Lord God, the Almighty Creator, has SONS who were married the daughters of men.  When the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

The Quran says that Allah, the Almighty Creator, has neither a son nor a partner.  Allah is the Self-Sufficient, the eternally Besought of all; the One Who is always sought at times of need.

 

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The Sons of the Lord God in the Bible (2)

The Bible says that the Sons of the Lord God, the Almighty Creator, were married the daughters of men.  When the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

But the Bible does not tell the names of the sons of the Lord God,

The Bible also does not give the physical attributes of the sons of the Lord God. In addition, the Bible does not tell what the number of the sons of the Lord God was and how many they were?

In short, the Bible does not let us know who, how, when, where, how many etc. in respect to the sons of the Lord God.

On the other hand, the Bible gives some informative details about the sons of the kings of Israel, for example, but does not give any details about the Sons of the Lord God, the Almighty Creator, who are of course very much more important than the sons of the kings of Judah . 

On the other hand, the Quran makes it very clear and says that Allah, the Almighty Creator, has neither a son nor a partner.

 

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Genesis 6:4

 

New International Version

4 The Nephilim were on the earth in those days—and also afterward—when the sons of God went to the daughters of men and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.

 

New American Standard Bible

4The Nephilim were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of men, and they bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

 

English Standard Version

4The Nephilim (Or giants) were on the earth in those days, and also afterward, when the sons of God came in to the daughters of man and they bore children to them. These were the mighty men who were of old, the men of renown.

 

King James Version

4There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.

 

Young’s Literal Translation

4The fallen ones were in the earth in those days, and even afterwards when sons of God come in unto daughters of men, and they have borne to them — they [are] the heroes, who, from of old, [are] the men of name.

 

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The Sons of the Lord God in the Quran (2)

 

The Quran firmly forbids saying that Allah has a son.

It is not befitting for the Majesty of Allah to take to Himself a son.

In Islam, this point is very important faith wise.

In a very simple word, Allah, the Almighty Creator, has neither a son nor a partner. 

Again, it is unforgivable sin to say or to believe that The One Almighty Creator who is Allah or God or the Lord or Jehovah or whatever you name Him has a son or sons.

 

A group of the disbelievers and the idolaters’ people of Mecca went to the Prophet Muhammad, and said to him:

Describe to us your Lord,

What is the lineage of your Lord?

what is He made of?

And to which species does He belong?

Is He made of gold, copper or silver?

Does He eat and drink?

Who did He inherit this world from?

And to whom will He bequeath it?’

 

and so Allah, exalted is He, revealed this Surah (Chapter 112) to describe His attributes and traits, saying:

Say (O Muhammad): He is Allah, the One!

He has no son or partner.

Allah is the Self-Sufficient, the eternally Besought of all; the One Who is always sought at times of need,

He begets not, nor is he begotten, for anyone who is begotten will certainly die and whoever dies will be inherited. Allah does not die nor is He inherited.

And there is none comparable unto Him.

He does not have anyone who resembles Him or is like Him

Naught is as His likeness

 

From the Islamic point of view, the conclusion of this essential topic that may establish or destroy the faith is that:

Any one who believe that the Almighty Creator has a son or sons; he messes his faith up and is considered as a disbeliever and in the afterlife he will end up as an eternal inhabitant of the hell.

Any one who believe that the Creator has neither a son nor a partner; he has a good faith and is considered as a believer and in the afterlife he will end up as an eternal inhabitant of the paradise. 

 

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The meanings of Surah (Chapter) 112 of the Noble Quran:

 

Say: He is Allah, the one; He is the Master whose glory is at its peak and for Whom all created beings are in need;

It is also said that means: He Who does not eat or drink;

It is also said that this means: He Who does not have an interior;

It is also said that this means: He is the Everlasting; He is the Sufficient;

It is also said that this means: He who does not have an entrance or exit.

He begets not, nor is he begotten

He neither begot, for no likeness of Him can exist, nor was begotten, since createdness is precluded in His case.

He did not inherit and will not be inherited;

And it is also said this means: He does not have a son who will inherit His dominion and He was not begotten, which means that He did not inherit His dominion.

Nor is there anyone equal to Him’, neither match nor comparison

there is none comparable unto Him

He does not have an opposite, peer, or equal nor anyone who may resemble or begin to resemble Him;

and it is also said this means: He does not have any co-equal who would compete with Him about dominion and sovereignty’.

 

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Surah (Chapter) 112 of the Noble Quran:

 

Verse 112:1

QARIB: say: ‘he is Allah, the one,

SHAKIR: say: he, Allah, is one

PICKTHAL: say: he is Allah, the one!

YUSUFALI: say: he is Allah, the one and only;

 

Verse 112:2

QARIB: the called upon.

SHAKIR: Allah is he on whom all depend

PICKTHAL: Allah, the eternally besought of all!

YUSUFALI: Allah, the eternal, absolute;

 

Verse 112:3

QARIB: who has not given birth, and has not been born,

SHAKIR: he begets not, nor is he begotten

PICKTHAL: he begetteth not nor was begotten.

YUSUFALI: he begetteth not, nor is he begotten;

 

Verse 112:4

QARIB: and there is none equal to him. ‘

SHAKIR: and none is like him

PICKTHAL: and there is none comparable unto him.

YUSUFALI: and there is none like unto him.

 

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Back to my question to the smart and interested reader:

Is the Quran quoted from the Bible?

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