When a Cold does not end it can be allergy
Children’s allergy alert signals include:
Repeated wheezing and tightness in the chest can also be alert signals of asthma in a child.
- Persistence of cold symptoms that last more than one or two weeks, or tend to attack at the same time every year.
- Frequent red colored eruptions, with itching and scales, and frequently increases of the elbow or the knees.
- Breath difficulty
- Vomiting or abdominal pain
- Chronic cough
- Hives or swelling that tend to occur after eating a particular food.
Asthma: tips to avoid a crisis
Even though the asthma cannot be completely healed, those who have this disease can control it and live normal and active lives.
The following are tips from our specialists:
- Take the medication as indicated by your doctor.
- Once that the things or situations that generate asthmatic crisis are identified, keep them away or avoid the child’s contact with these elements, as much as possible.
- There are different (viral and environmental) factors that may cause an exacerbation in affected patients. Some of them can be: animal hair, cigarette smoke or dust.
- The patient should follow up medical control twice or three times a year, even if apparently there were no symptoms and he/she has no problems to breathe. This will help to prevent possible asthma attacks.
- It is important to know the signals of an asthmatic crisis and learn how to proceed in those situations.
What is bronchiolitis?
It is the first episode of wheezing (whistling in the chest when breathing) associated to clinical evidence of viral infection (mucus, cold, fever, cough) in children under two, being the respiratory sincital virus (RSV) the most frequent germ. It compromises, in a sudden and diffuse way, the lower airways (the smaller and final ramifications of the bronchial tree), whose function consists in transporting the air to the lungs. These ducts are injured, edematized and obstructed with mucus, making it difficult to breathe.
Does yellow fever vaccination protect against dengue?
Even though the yellow fever virus is related to the dengue virus and they are carried by the same species of mosquitoes, they are different viruses. The yellow fever vaccine protects only against the yellow fever virus. Currently there is no vaccine against dengue. The best way to prevent the disease is to inhibit the presence of the transmitter mosquito in houses and near them. By controlling the mosquito development the contagion risks of these diseases is reduced.
How can you increase milk production for your baby?
- Stimulate your breasts. Your baby’s suction or milk extraction through breast pump are the best stimulation for milk production.
- Your baby hast to suction frequently, in an adequate manner (a good latch on the breast) and empty your breasts to increase let-down of milk.
- Look for the best position for breastfeeding. It is important that both the baby and the mother feel comfortable at the time of breastfeeding in order to facilitate the let-down of milk.
- Have good hydration and nutrition.
- Get plenty of rest and try to lower stress levels. Tiredness and stress reduce breast milk production.
Flu: who has to get vaccinated?
In pediatrics: Indication and age to get vaccinated:
- Children from 6 months to 2 years old, regardless of risk factors.
- Children and adolescents form 5 to 18 years old inclusive, with the following risk factors:
- Severe development disability.
- Genetic syndromes, neuromuscular diseases with respiratory compromise and serious congenital malformation.
- Chronic respiratory disease (diaphragmatic hernia, chronic pulmonary obstructive disease, congenital emphysema, bronchopulmonary dysplasia, emphysema, patients with tracheotomy, bronchiectasis, muscoviscidosis, etc.).
- Congenital heart diseases.
- Solid organs or haematopoietic issue transplanted.
- Onco-haematologic disease up to 6 months after complete remission.
- Solid organ tumor under treatment.
- CKD on dialysis or expected to enter dialysis.
- Patients with metabolic diseases (diabetes) , renal failure, haemoglobinopathies and immune suppression (as per HIV or medication).
- Children and adolescents under long-term therapy with acetylsalicylic acid.
- Cohabitants with immunocompromised patients.
- Morbid obesity. Body mass index over 40.
Respiratory viruses: what are they and what diseases do they cause?
The acute respiratory infections (ARI) are worldwide priority health problem. They have a high morbidity and mortality rate, that increases in winter, being them the most frequent reason of consulting in clinics and the most frequent cause of hospitalization in this period.
Respiratory viruses are responsible of most of the ARI. They are transmitted by the respiratory tract (drops with secretions spread out when coughing, sneezing or laughing) or through contaminated hands or objects.