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The purpose of this article is to provide the necessary information on vaccination in children and the diseases they preventable. Recall that the staff of vaccination and your family pediatrician are always available to go into that and clarify all doubts. Index of diseases: - Poliomyelitis - Diphtheria and Tetanus - Hepatitis B - Pertussis - Haemophilus influenzae type b - Measles - Mumps - Rubella - Pneumococcal - Meningococcal - Varicella - Useful if after vaccination ... POLIOMYELITIS What is polio? Polio is an infectious disease caused by three different types of viruses that enter the body primarily through the digestive system. This disease is very dangerous because, in severe cases, can cause irreversible paralysis, usually of the limbs and sometimes death. Unfortunately there are no medicines to cure this disease once it has developed, the only real possibility to prevent these serious health consequences is represented by prevention through vaccination. In...
What? There is talk of diarrhea when the child has several volleys of liquid or unformed stools and mucous membranes, often also shows the child a stomach ache, irritability, fever and vomiting. Diarrhea and vomiting almost always depend on infections caused by microbes (viruses, bacteria, parasites), arriving in the body through the mouth. When to worry? Whatever the reason for determining the diarrhea, the most worrying aspect is the onset of dehydration. The most important thing in these cases is whether there is loss of peso.Occorre, therefore, weigh daily the child with diarrhea and vomiting and should consult your pediatrician in case of weight loss. The presence of dry mouth and produce little pee in the day may be associated with dehydration and should be considered as warning signals. What to do? It is essential that the child in the first 4-6 hours drink at will must be given orally, and for the duration of symptoms glucosalina a solution (there are several on the mar...
In the first 48-72 hours after birth, the newborn is frequently attached to the womb and takes only glucose (sugar water). This is done to stimulate the early mammary gland to produce the first milk, colostrum, and to avoid, in the first hours of life, the formula is in contact with the mucosa of the intestinal tract, still patent the passage of some substances there contained. Subsequently, the baby is fed only breast milk, if present in sufficient numbers if it is insufficient, the baby takes small amounts of formula, in order to reduce the physiological decline, for example 6 meals 20-40 grams each, about every 3 hours during the day, leaving a longer period at night. If there is a family history of allergies (both parents or a parent and a sibling), and there is breast milk is given to an infant formula particular "diet" that does not contain whole proteins of animal origin: a milk that is with protein of vegetable origin (soya milk) or pretreated with protein, no allergens (p...
What The acetonaemia or ketosis is a very common condition in childhood and is due to a momentary disturbance of the metabolism of the child who, after burning all the sugars available to the agency begins to burn as a source of alternative energy including fats, thereby determining the increase in blood and urine ketone bodies (hyperketonemia) until it reaches toxic levels. In an attempt to reduce its concentration in the blood, the body begins to eliminate in urine and acetoacetic acids 3-hydroxy-butyric acid (may be highlighted in the urine with the help of stick urine for the presence of ketonuria, sold in all pharmacies) and through the lungs, acetone: the latter, in contact with air, releases the characteristic smell of ripe fruit. Causes Acetone and toned bodies that are due, in most cases, deficient food, especially after a feed too high in fat, but can also occur after prolonged fasting during the "stress" infectious febrile that can cause both increased secretion of hor...
Commercially available for several years, pregnancy tests do you represent a simple, fast and effective way to confirm or rule out pregnancy. In addition to shortening the waiting time required for the establishment of pregnancy, allowing you to personally manage the performance of the test without having to resort to the doctor or laboratory analysis, reduce anxiety and apprehension related to the uncertainty of the response. The advantage of these tests is therefore in the precocity and the ability to know before you go to the doctor if the delay with a good chance of pregnancy. The pregnancy test immediately be bought in pharmacies or supermarkets, and are based on the identification of chorionic gonadotropin in the urine, unlike the levy to assess the presence of the same hormone in the blood. The placenta produces chorionic gonadotropin, known as HCG, a glycoprotein composed of two parts, one called the other alpha and beta, which is detected in pregnancy tests. This ho...