Blog by Drs Clift & Du Plessis

Anxiety doesn’t just live in the mind — it lives in the body too.

We often see patients who are understandably frightened by very real physical symptoms: chest pain, shortness of breath, dizziness, or a sense of impending doom. Many worry something serious is being missed.

But here’s something importa...

There's a particularly nasty tummy bug going around Paarl right now, and many of our patients - adults and kiddies alike - are really struggling with it. When tummy bug hits, it can be uncomfortable and exhausting to deal with. The symptoms usually start suddenly. A child who was perfectly fine a fe...

In the hospital, we so often see moms arriving in the middle of the night with sick children - exhausted, anxious, and convinced something is terribly wrong. And then, frustratingly, after a horrible night of “burning up,” the child’s fever has broken. He’s smiling, playing, and being his cutest sel...