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SHORT WAVES FROM APPLETON LAYER-150 MI HIGH
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Cough medicines should not be given to young childrenHot Topic!U.S. health officials on Friday said parents should not give their young children cough and cold medications, saying the products pose serious health risks.The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a report released Friday children under the age of two should not use decongestants and those under age six should not be given antihistamine medicines.
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///////////////////////Analyzing multiple samples from the same subject as if they were independent samples is not the proper statistical approach; however, I doubt that adjusting for that fact would have substantially changed the overarching findings -- we don't put enough blood in culture samples. The authors discuss the implications of their findings at length; given the importance of blood cultures in determining treatment courses, often for very ill children, beginning with an adequate sample is paramount. Clinicians may often be operating with a false sense of security if many blood culture results are negative because they were not adequate specimens, rather than being truly negative. So, this study serves as a reminder to pay individual attention to how much blood is submitted. In addition, educational interventions such as theirs would be relatively minor to conduct and might result in markedly improved quality of care.
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///////////////////NCSE encompasses a wide range of diagnoses with variable outcomes and treatment recommendations. NCSE in children is probably under-recognized. It can occur in previously well infants with no preceding convulsive seizures whose only clinical manifestation is a failure to return to normal levels of responsiveness during a severe illness. Children with Dravet syndrome with obtundation status illustrate another challenge: the accompanying EEG patterns might be complex and irregular and differ from the more-uniform patterns seen in adults. Further studies examining the electrographic characteristics of very young children in NCSE would be helpful in aiding the prompt recognition of additional patients. A high index of suspicion is necessary to recognize NCSE, because its association with certain epilepsy syndromes and predisposing conditions is not widely acknowledged. In addition to Dravet syndrome, other syndromes associated with NCSE include Panayiotopoulos syndrome, malignant migrating partial seizures of infancy, LGS, and myoclonic status in nonprogressive encephalopathies. NCSE can also be sandwiched between convulsive episodes of SE in children. Clinical suspicion for NCSE should be high in children who fail to return to baseline function between more-overt seizures.
Specific data in childhood are clearly lacking, but extrapolation from adult studies indicates that aggressive treatment is most warranted in comatose patients. An expeditious but cautious approach is probably indicated for absence SE, complex partial SE and ESES.
To date, EEG has been the main laboratory tool used to confirm NCSE. Other biological markers of NCSE, particularly those that might be applicable in the acute clinical situation, would be very useful, both for recognition of patients with NCSE and for judging the effectiveness of treatments.
Finally, long-term prospective studies are needed to evaluate the harmful potential of NCSE itself as opposed to the underlying circumstances in which it occurs.
..///////////////////Rapid scaling up of ITN coverage among Africa's poorest rural children can be achieved through mass distribution campaigns. These efforts must form an important adjunct to regular, routine access to ITNs through clinics, and each complimentary approach should aim to make this intervention free to clients to ensure equitable access among those least able to afford even the cost of a heavily subsidized net.
//////////////////////CMPA is an immunologic disorder that may or may not be mediated by IgE. Children who are serologically positive for CMPA are at increased risk for a longer duration of symptoms as well as other atopic diseases.
The criterion standards of diagnosis of mild to moderate CMPA are elimination diets and food challenges
TRY PEPTI JUNIOR
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Maternal Weight Tied to Child's Body Composition at Age 9 In a study, investigators found that children whose mothers had a larger body mass index (BMI) prior to pregnancy, or a larger mid-upper arm circumference in late pregnancy, had a higher amount of body fat at the age of 9 years than other age-matched children. The amount of weight mothers put on during pregnancy, however, had no effect on their child's body fat.
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/////////////////////////Male Offspring of Mothers With Epilepsy May Have Diminished Adult Intelligence
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Boys With HIV More Likely Than Girls to Harbor Multiple-Drug Resistant Virus Resistance to antiretroviral therapy (ART) is common in children with HIV, and adolescent boys may be at even higher risk, French researchers report in the September issue of the Journal of Medical Virology.
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Ongoing Botulinum Toxin Helpful in Bladder Dysfunction Repeated injections of botulinum-A toxin (BTX, Dysport) appear to be effective in the treatment of myelodysplastic children and patients with spinal cord injuries with neurogenic bladder dysfunction, German researchers report.
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Chronic Hepatitis Common in Children With HIV Hepatitis B and C virus infections are common in children infected with HIV, who should be routinely screened for these infections, according to a report in the September 15th issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases.Reuters Health Information 2007
////////////////////////Intake of apples and fish by women during pregnancy may have a protective effect against childhood asthma and allergies, according to the results of a longitudinal birth cohort study in the September issue of Thorax.
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Measurement of total levels of cholesterol to screen for familial hypercholesterolemia is best done in children at ages 1 to 9 years and would identify 88% of affected children with a false-positive rate of 0.1%.
Screening children for familial hypercholesterolemia would also aid in the identification of the affected parent and possibly other affected family members.
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///////////////////HERBAL MEDS
The good and the bad
Herbal remedies that work (as shown by clinical trials):
* St John's wort – effective in the treatment of mild to moderate depression
* Hawthorn – helps with congestive heart failure
* Gingko biloba – effective in the treatment of dementia
* Devil's claw – for muscular-skeletal pain
* Echinacea – can help treat the common cold
* Saw palmetto – can help treat benign prostate hyperplasia (enlargement of the prostate not due to cancer)
* Valerian – for treating insomnia
* Salix (from willow bark) – for the treatment of pain
* Kava kava – a tranquilliser (banned in UK because it has been linked with liver damage)
* Andrographis paniculata – can help treat the common cold (banned in UK)
Some remedies that have been warned against:
Aristolochia
In August, the MHRA warned against Xie Gan Wan pills, which commonly contain aristolochia, which in turn can cause kidney failure and cancer
Caterpillar fungus
In July, the Hong Kong Health Department found that the traditional Chinese product called Royal Medic No 1 Chinese Caterpillar Fungus contained a high bacterial count
Senecio
