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July-born babies are either Leo or Cancer. While Cancerians are humane, caring, and kind; Leos are confident, courageous, and optimistic. Governed by intense emotions, they are passionate, creative, mysterious, and intuitive. Their emotions are always intense, and their personality is charismatic.

Leos have this distinct ability to stand out from the regular crowd. Your Leo baby can be a queen or king of charisma, confidence, and strength. They are incredibly smart and reach their milestones earlier than others in the rest of the zodiacal signs. Let us find out more about the personality and other traits of July born babies.

July Born: Qualities

People born in the month of July are well-liked for their extreme positivity and sharp wit. A July born baby is the lifeline of a party that lightens up the moods of everyone involved in the conversation with their genuine humour. Their caustic repartees and candid reactions keep the party alive and engaging.

July born babies are essentially charming and they are gourmets with a keen ear for music. They have a sharp understanding of human nature and are compassionate to the core. Born with naturally beautiful eyes and gorgeous smile, that lights up the room irrespective of time and place, they keep people guessing and on tenterhooks due to their constantly changeable moods.

They are born friendly and certainly can top the list of desirable qualities that you would love to see in your best friend. They are calm and composed yet optimistic and generous. They rush to help if they sense anyone is in trouble.

Once depressed, they take longer to bounce back to cheer. They ruminate over things longer than those born in other signs. They are highly sensitive and are easily hurt. Being emotionally upset bothers them, and they get easily defensive when questioned. But at the same time, they have an admirable skill for behavioural regulation.

People who are born in July can restrain their emotions and keep them pent up, battling with them on their own. Cancerians are independent and determined, and they seldom seek help from someone. Gifted with managerial skills, their approach to work is very ethical and inspiring. Cancerians are deeply attached to their families and never grow tired of it, throughout their life.

Leos practice frugal habits to get rich. Their priorities and abilities lie in careful budgeting, saving, and spending less, to build their finances. Their brains work overtime, and the mercurial intelligence helps them make a mark in society for themselves. Although they believe in helping everyone, they have a select circle of friends with whom they keep in constant touch. By nature, they are pre equipped for administrative jobs.

July Born: Compatibility With Other Signs

Cancers can share the best part of their lives with five signs. Their relationship with Virgos is marked by an intense emotional connection and a fluid expression of thoughts and feelings. Taureans enjoy a synergic connection and chemistry. Scorpios, they share similar values and lifestyle and an intense emotional and physical chemistry.

Geminis, they share the three Cs of intense communication, emotional connection, and chemistry. Cancerians and Capricorns can look good together as a power couple but when it comes to relationships, they both search for emotional security.

Leos are compatible with Aries, Gemini, Sagittarius, and Libra. Arians and Leos gel well due to their intense passion and love for achievement. Geminis and Leos value passion and excitement. While Sagittarians share passion and intensity with Leos, Librans and Leos can bring out the best in each other.

July Born: Celebrities

July derived its name from the famous Roman Leader Julius Caesar who was born on 12 July 100 BC. That is not all, there is a long list of famous July celebrities ahead. Others seen in the list, are Nelson Mandela, Princess Diana, US presidents (John Quincy Adams, Calvin Coolidge, Gerald Ford, and George W. Bush, actors Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh, former cricketer Sourav Ganguly, JRD Tata, writer Jhumpa Lahiri, and singer Kailash Kher.

July Born: Physical Attributes

Some of your tall willowy female friends can surely be Leos. Cancerians, according to research, are left handers with an impressive sense of style. They have an elegant and confident demeanour, that gets them an easy foray into limelight. The Leos look stately and impressive, with wide eyes and piercing gaze, that unsettles you for a moment. Some very pretty and small nosed people are born in July. Apart from having a luxurious mane, they have high-pitched loud voice and feline features.

July Borns: Health

July borns have an inbuilt and robust immune system that guards them against major ailments. They have an inherently low risk for disease as per a study from Columbia University. As per the Columbia University Department of Medicine study, people born between 1900 and 2000 had relatively good health compared to those born in the other months. People born in July seem to be well fortified against cardiovascular and reproductive issues, ADHD, Asthma, and ear infections. As per an Israeli study, July babies suffer from myopia due to excessive exposure to sunlight. As per a 2012 British study, people born in July are less likely to develop schizophrenia later in life.

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A couple of years ago my daughter, who is in her 30s, started feeling very tired and had problems tripping while running.

Her doctor diagnosed iron deficiency anaemia and prescribed iron tablets for three months. This sorted the problem, but in recent weeks she has been tired and is stumbling again. Why is this happening?

P.A. Berry, Hertfordshire.

I suspect there are several factors implicated here.

The average adult has around 4 g of iron in their body, 70 per cent of which is found in haemoglobin, the oxygen-carrying pigment in red blood cells.

Iron deficiency anaemia occurs when haemoglobin drops below 11.5g/dL in women and 13.5g/dL in men, and is where the iron stores are too low to produce red blood cells in their normal quantity (each lives for only 120 days).

As red blood cells carry oxygen around the body, this can lead to tiredness and breathlessness —your daughter’s tripping may be due to this weariness.

Each day we lose around 1mg of iron through natural shedding of skin cells, hair and the mucosal tissue that lines the intestines, which is constantly being renewed. Women who menstruate lose 2mg or so daily during their periods.

And your daughter may also be losing iron by running, as studies show athletes can shed it through exercise-induced sweating.

You say in your longer letter that she has a healthy diet, which will help, but there is a limit to the amount of iron that can be absorbed via the intestines.

So when iron stores drop, it is hard to get them back again without supplementation.

My advice would be for her to take a daily full-strength (300mg) iron supplement, available over the counter, until her haemoglobin is well above 11.5g/dL (her GP will need to do a blood test for this) and then take a tablet (the same high dose) once or twice weekly on a long-term basis.

You also say your daughter has been a blood donor and would like to do so again. Being anaemic rules out the immediate possibility of that — those who donate are required to have a relatively high haemoglobin level. Nevertheless, I salute her good intentions.

For the past six months, I’ve been suffering with rosacea — I get a very red face that seems worse after a meal or hot drink. I’ve tried a gel and four creams, but nothing relieves it. I’m considering seeing a dermatologist privately. What can I do?

Barbara Clegg, by email.

I sympathise as these symptoms are clearly causing you great distress.

Rosacea is believed to occur due to the immune system over-reacting to the presence of micro-organisms that live on our skin, such as the mite Demodex.

This immune reaction provokes the dilation of blood vessels — hence the skin flushing.

A number of factors can trigger a flare-up, including exercise, drinking alcohol and hot drinks or eating spicy foods, because these encourage further dilation of the blood vessels.

My preference has been to prescribe antibiotics known as tetracyclines, which are commonly used to treat bacterial skin complaints.

Although there is no known bacterial cause of rosacea, these drugs are thought to help, due to their anti-inflammatory effects.

Treatment with oxytetracycline (250mg, twice daily) or doxy-cycline (50mg, once daily) for four to 12 weeks may reduce rosacea symptoms sufficiently to allow continued treatment with metronidazole gel (an antibiotic) once the rosacea has cleared, to help prevent a relapse.

Another option, brimonidine, a drug used to treat glaucoma that’s now available as a gel, is showing striking results. And the antiparasitic drug ivermectin, available on prescription as a 1% cream, has been found in studies to be more effective than metro-nidazole gel.

Discuss these options once more with your GP. If this does not prove fruitful, then I agree that a referral to a dermatologist would be appropriate.

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In my view: Don’t forget the blight of polio

When my parents married just after World War II, any rumour of a local case of polio would strike terror into the parents of babies and children.

There was no prevention or treatment and some of those infected experienced rapid, irreversible nerve damage.

I have patients even now who live with complications of polio they contracted in the 1950s — such as a paralysed leg or arm.

In the worst cases, the nerve supply to the muscles involved in breathing was affected, leading to life in an iron lung, a metal casing containing a mechanical pump. Thankfully, vaccinations started in 1956.

There are several types of vaccine. The preferred option these days is an injected vaccine created from killed polio viruses as there are rare cases where the oral version (soon to be abandoned but still used abroad) reverts to a transmissible form of polio.

Last week it was reported that modified polio virus has been repeatedly detected in sewage from one area of London.

It should remind us all of the childhood vaccination programme. To avoid this, whether through ignorance or adherence to conspiracy theories, is tantamount to child abuse.