The relationship of hypertension in young people with dementia in the future
Higher blood pressure is clearly associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular events, but can hypertension independently promote cognitive dysfunction as well?
Teenage Conflict
Help Children Act Calm: Let them know that it takes more courage to walk away from a fight than to stay and fight;
Teach them that fights don’t solve problems—they make new ones;
Remind them that when they get mad but don’t fight, they have really won.
Mental Illness of Adolescents
Adolescence isn’t an easy time for parents, either. As children move through the various tumultuous transitions that accompany adolescence — physical, emotional, hormonal, sexual, social, intellectual — the pressures and problems they encounter can all too easily seem overwhelming.
Food poisoning: symptoms, treatment and prevention
Food poisoning (also known as food-borne illness) occurs when you eat or drink something that contains harmful germs (bacteria, viruses, or parasites). Bacteria produce a toxin in food. It’s this toxin that causes the problem.
Vaccine febrile seizures
Febrile seizures (FSs) are the most common type of childhood seizures, occurring in 3% to 5% of children between 6 months and 6 years of age, with peak incidence in the second year of life.
Mental Health Myths: Stop the Stigma
Mental health is widely misunderstood. There is a stigma that surrounds mental health issues. This stigma prevents people from getting the help they need. The only way to stop the stigma is to learn as much as you can about it. The best way to do that is to dispel some of the common myths about mental illness.
Management of Infants at Risk for Group B Streptococcal Disease
Group B streptococcal (GBS) infection remains the most common cause of neonatal early-onset sepsis and a significant cause of late-onset sepsis among young infants.
Clinic and treatment of GBS infection in newborns
Even in developed countries, the infection of streptococcus b (GBS) in newborns, gives doctors many problems. In our previous publication, we have already considered what measures to prevent streptococcal infection offers the American Academy of Pediatrics. The current material will focus on recommendations for the diagnosis and treatment of this serious disease.
Folic acid as a cancer prevention in infants and young children.
There has long been a theory about the preventive role of vitamin B9 in relation to malignant processes. This antioxidant is widely used in obstetrics and is prescribed for pregnant women.
In Utero Exposure to Ischemic-Hypoxic Conditions and Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a widespread chronic childhood illness characterized by hyperactivity, inattention / distractivity and impulse.