Health

Emily Grace Muth, six, (left) was killed by the flu on Friday just hours after paramedics left her Cary, North Carolina, home and said she would be okay and to stay hydrated. She did not get the flu shot and now her parents, Nathan and Rhonda, (right) said they will get their two sons, eight and 10, the vaccine as soon as possible. Emily is one of more than 30 children in the US that has been killed by the deadly virus ravaging the nation this season.

Emily Rose Oehler, five, was bitten by a rattlesnake Saturday morning during a family outing in Texas. Doctors used markers to measure the pace at which the snake poison traveled up her leg towards her abdomen. Pictured: Emily (right) before she was bitten by the rattlesnake, and (left) doctors using markers to track the speed at which the venom traveled throughout Emily's body.

Kelsie Hanna (pictured left and right), 30, from Edmonton, Canada, who suffers from trichotillomania, said: 'I pull my hair every single day I would say. If I am not attacking an eyelash, I am tackling my actual hair on the head. I start feeling like there are ants and needles poking my head and it just won't stop'. Ms Hanna is forced to wear a wig (pictured inset with her fiancé Curtis, and their son Presley and daughter Brooke) every time she leaves the house and has even had her eyebrows tattooed on.

Rob Leibowitz, 60, (circled left) from New Jersey, suffered from chronic kidney disease and wore a t-shirt (left) that said 'In Need of Kidney' with his phone number to find a donor. He underwent a successful transplant surgery last week after Richie Sully, 39, (circled right) from Indiana, saw a photo of the t-shirt on Facebook and tests confirmed the men were perfect matches. The two fathers are pictured together in their hospital gowns in New York surrounded by Rob's children.

While a poor night's sleep here or there is unlikely to cause health problems in the long term, consecutive nights of poor sleep can do more harm than many people realise. And if this is you you're not alone, with a health survey by the Australian Sleep Health Foundation finding that 33 to 45 per cent of adults sleep either poorly or not long enough most nights. Here, FEMAIL looks at the impact this sleeplessness has on the body and some simple tips for improving your slumber and overall health moving forward.

An expert from Nationwide Children's Hospital in Ohio explains how Tide Pods burn organs as they travel through the body, injuring nearly 40 people who partook in the viral detergent eating challenge so far this year. The corrosive chemicals are so highly concentrated in the packets that even inhaling or swallowing a small amount can burn the mouth, lungs and esophagus.

Anthony Dones, of Long Island, New York, who was born with malignant infantile osteoporosis, a rare genetic disorder, met Patti and Sam Bosque, the mother and son who saved his life 15 years ago. His mother found them after taking an Ancestry DNA test. Pictured: Anthony and Sam (left), Anthony and Patti (right), and (inset) Anthony in the hospital December 2002.

ITV's This Morning's resident doctor Dr Ranj Singh joined the North West ambulance service for a shift, where he learnt how the team work with no idea what the next 12 hours may bring. Some are even physically and mentally abused by the very people whose lives they are trying to save, making them frightened of what they may encounter at every job.

Sarah and Rob Vaughan (pictured let on their wedding day with her wearing a wig), from St Helens, Merseyside, were due to marry in the spring but brought their wedding forward when the mother-of-two underwent chemotherapy (inset). Just four days before the big day the teacher's hair started to fall out. She shared an image (left) of her when she removed the wig on her special day.

Helen Heagren, from Romford, Essex, is batting incurable ovarian cancer. The size 22 knickers (shown left) hang in home alongside a photo of her distended stomach (top right). Doctors had to drain 17 litres of fluid from the teaching assistant's stomach. 'They're a reminder of what I've been through,' Mrs Heagren said (pictured with her family bottom right).

More people than ever are ditching their clothes in favour of nude workouts. Activities like naked yoga have making waves in Australia over the past few months with both men and women reporting better workouts, improved sleep and a boost in their body image as a result of exercising naked. And now health coach and yoga teacher, Lee Holmes (left), has revealed why this is the case.

Lindsay Ellis (pictured) of Indianapolis, Indiana had hallucinations of the devils voice and insects crawling on her after she was prescribed Tamiflu last year, and father, Charles (right of center), is joining the ranks of families warning against the drug. Tamiflu (center) is one of three flu treatments recommended by the CDC, but its rare, severe side effects have gotten in banned in Japan, and are thought to have caused a six-year-old girl to try to jump out of a window this week.

Dr Fernando Guedes da Cunha, pictured, a Brazilian obstetrician, dances with his patients Camila Rocha, l, and Claudia, r, to help them get through labor pains. Many of his dance routines include squats, hip movements and shimmies. Studies have shown movement during labor helps make the process shorter and less painful.

Alia Scott, from Waikato, New Zealand, thought she was having a flare-up of hayfever which she suffers from. She is covered in painful hives so severe they scar and bruise. Unable to have hot showers, she says her skin feels permanently sunburnt. Miss Scott was siagnosed with chronic idiopathic urticaria (CIU) which has no known cause.

Steffanie and Rob Prest, from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, had planned to get married in November this year. But they decided last week to move the date forward so Jean, who has dementia, could be there. The pair married on Monday in a simple ceremony at their local registry office.

Experts recommend meals and physical activities that might look and feel familiar to President Trump, but could help him lose the pounds he needs to in order to back away from the obesity line. With a dangerously high body mass index and cholesterol levels, Trump's health team needs to coax him into better habits by hiding fiber in burritos (left) and healthy fats in salmon fish sticks (center).

Lorna Jane Clarkson (left) is one woman who seems to know the secret to eternal youth. The busy fitness entrepreneur, 53, always manages to look radiant. It's no surprise that this is partly thanks to the rigorous diet and exercise routine she follows which the brains behind one of Australia's largest activewear brands has shared with FEMAIL.

At just 12 weeks old, newborn girl Erika Vidaic (pictured left now at five years on, right as a newborn and inset after the transplant) was on the brink of death when she was suffering from a rare liver disease. The Sydney baby was diagnosed with biliary atresia - a life-threatening condition which causes the small ducts in the liver to become blocked or disintegrate. As her condition deteriorated, the distraught parents endured an agonising wait as their infant daughter was put on the organ list for a liver transplant. Here, her mother Rosa Vidaic (left) spoke out about their terrifying ordeal and how her daughter was miraculously saved after receiving a transplant from a stranger.

Kim, who welcomed her third child with Kanye West on Monday, recently featured a breastfeeding pillow in a Snapchat video of her baby product haul, which left many of her followers wondering if she can produce milk without being pregnant. Surrogacy is a form of assisted reproduction that involves using a woman's uterus to carry an embryo and deliver a baby for another person or couple. But as experts explained to Daily Mail Online, there are many ways the 37-year-old reality star can nurse her daughter. Pictured: Kim this week; her surrogate (right); her personal account explaining why she picked surrogacy over carrying the baby herself (left). 

The groundbreaking paper published today by the same Boston University team which diagnosed Aaron Hernandez with CTE last year is the first to show how sports tackles directly cause the devastating brain disease, which causes aggression, dementia and suicidal thoughts. Simply put: concussions are to CTE what a cough is to lung cancer. A cough does not predict lung cancer, and treating it does not prevent or cure lung cancer. It is the same for CTE. Pictured: four of the players who were posthumously diagnosed with CTE: Pittsburgh Steelers' Mike Webster (top left); Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez (top right), who had the worst case of CTE ever recorded despite only having two concussions on record; Junior Seau (bottom right), who took his own life to donate his brain to CTE research; and Dave Duerson (bottom left) who also committed suicide so scientists could posthumously analyze his brain. The new study showed two high school players (center) who had committed suicide both had signs of CTE (seen in the dark parts of their brain scans) despite never suffering concussions.

EXCLUSIVE: Indigo Faulkner, 18, from Bridgnorth in Shropshire, has suffered with severe cold sores since she was five and can have outbreaks every six to eight weeks (pictured left during one), making her feel anxious and anti-social. Topical treatments and anti-viral medication failed to keep them under control. Now she's found relief (as shown right) with liquorice – which research has found to weaken the cold sore virus.

Zipporah Agyei, from Wembley, north west London, was told repeatedly by her GP that she was having migraines. But weeks later she called the NHS non-emergency number 111 when she couldn't open her right eye. Doctors discovered she had two aneurysms that had ruptured and she died during surgery. Her devastated mother Vivien Adu-Sarfo gave her little girl the presents her devoted mother had left for her.