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Baby Diseases – Ringworm in Infants

Saturday, March 27th, 2010

Ringworm in infantsHow to prevent and treat it?

Ringworm is a skin infection caused by microscopic fungi which, according to the affected area takes on different names: tinea pedis, t. unguium, t. capitis, t. corporis, t. cruris or ringworm of the skin, nails, head, body, and English.

The most widespread form is ringworm of the feet, also called athlete’s foot, affecting mainly children who frequent the gym or pool. It may not show signs or cause redness between the toes, before the skin to macerate and break, causing intense itching.

If not controlled, the rash may spread to the rest of the foot and spread to the nails and sole. To eliminate athlete’s foot provided under doctor’s prescription, you can apply an antifungal cream, being careful to wash before the child’s feet and drying them carefully.

The ointment should be applied for 2-3 weeks and at least one more week after the disappearance of ringworm, but, apparently, the foot is already cured. In general, healing requires 2-3 weeks. Meanwhile, the child must wear suitable footwear. Avoid putting a child or plastic shoes too tight shoes, are preferable shoes of leather or natural fibers, to be changed often.

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Baby Diseases – Contact Dermatitis in The Infant

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

Contact DematitisHow to treat and what are the causes that trigger?

Contact dermatitis is the most common form of dermatitis and is a skin inflammation caused by contact with irritating or allergy-inducing substances (soaps, metals, cosmetics, perfumes, textiles, detergents, drugs, etc.)..

In the first case, the intensity of the disorder depends on the amount of substance that has been exposed. By contrast, in the case of an allergic dermatitis, once manifested, always fire when it comes into contact with the substance allergenicity, whether small or large doses.

The reaction of the child’s skin varies depending on the underlying cause. In general, at first feels itchy and blisters in areas of the body that have come into contact with the “ingredient guilty.” If the contact is prolonged, the blisters may spread. In the case of causing allergies and dermatitis caused by further reaction can occur months or even years before manifesting itself.

Therefore, it can happen that a substance used for a long time without ever having caused any reaction, causing dermatitis. The blisters break also causes the formation of a crust, inside which inflammatory cells are still present. This explains why, if the child scratches are formed in skin thickening.

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Baby Diseases – Jaundice in Baby

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

jaundice babyThe baby’s jaundice is not a real disease but a symptom that can indicate liver disease. When the baby has jaundice, their skin and sclera, the whites of the eyes assume a yellowish color. This is because the body quickly destroys red blood cells. Sometimes the stools are whitish and urine brown.

It is not a real disease but the symptoms that may indicate liver disease (eg hepatitis) or disorder can result in rapid destruction of red blood cells and, consequently, anemia, such as The fabismo. In general, red blood cells break down and are destroyed by the body every 120 days.

Hemoglobin, the protein that gives blood its bright red, is transformed into bilirubin, a yellowish color. Normally, the color change of the skin and sclera is so slow that it does not show. However, if red cells are destroyed quickly, the skin and whites of the eyes take on the characteristic yellow of jaundice.

This is a fairly common situation during the first days of life of the baby (jaundice is present in 60 per cent of children born at term and 80 percent of those born before term, caused mainly by the fact that child’s liver is still not entirely efficient), but less so in successive ages. The treatment of jaundice is different depending on the cause that has originated.

In the case of the newborn, for example, jaundice can have three different cases, depending on the underlying cause, be classified as physiological jaundice (treatment involves exposing the baby, the third to sixth day of life, blue light lamps during 12-hour cycles), jaundice due to breast milk (it may contain a hormone that decreases the liver’s ability to eliminate bilirubin) or jaundice due to an incompatibility between the blood of the mother and the child (thanks to prenatal testing, this problem can be identified from the beginning of pregnancy and can intervene to prevent its consequences).

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