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With time passing, the use of protonic pump inhibitors (PPIs) during childhood has been gradually increasing. Some researchers have performed a systematic review on 12 studies involving 895 young people (between 0 and 17 years of age), treated with PPIs for gastro-esophageal reflux and for gastric [...]
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Staphylococcus Aureus is acquiring more and more resistance to antibiotics, and this creates great therapeutical problems as to pediatric skin infections, whose etiology is very often represented by this bacterium. In a randomized study involving 200 subjects (between 6 months and 18 years of age), [...]
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Subjects affected by asthma are advised to attend swimming courses, because of the beneficial effect given by moist warm air on bronchial constriction induced by physical efforts, but the problem concerning the presence of chlorine, which could potentially trigger asthma attacks, has been raised. [...]
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In children living in the suburbs, the prevalence of asthma is high, also because of fine dust particles, of moulds, of the presence of rodents and cockroaches. For the treatment of asthmatic allergic phenomena in subjects being over 12 years of age, the FDA has approved the use of omalizumab, a [...]
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It is not clear yet which is the role of corticosteroids in the treatment of Schonlein-Henoch purpura, in fact their use varies from one center to another. The effects of steroids have been examined, in a retrospective way, on the development of complications in 1895 children (averagely 6 years of [...]
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A previous trial, performed in 2007, randomized but non blind, has affirmed that the use of Lactobacillus Reuteri obtains better results than simeticone in breastfed infants’ colics. Now, another trial has been performed, examining 46 breastfed infants (between 2 and 16 weeks of age) and has [...]
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The beginning of smoke prohibition in public places in Scotland, including restaurants, bars and pubs, dates back to 2006. In order to verify the effect of this law on childhood asthma, some researchers have used a national database and controlled all hospitalizations for asthma occurred from 2000 [...]
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In the American population, vitamin D deficiency is widely spread, especially in childhood and above all among black people. Now, two new studies consider the problem in teenagers, too.
In the first trial, performed in a medical center in Washington DC, the level of vitamin D has been measured in [...]
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A study published in 2008 has affirmed that in preterm newborns the use of probiotics is capable to prevent the development of a disease, which is unfortunately widespread and severe, necrotizing enterocolitis. With a meta-analysis of 11 randomized trials involving 2176 preterm newborns (birth [...]
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The traditional therapy for asthma in children implies the use of ion therapy based on inhaled cortisones, but when this therapy is insufficient, which is the next step? Three different therapies have been examined in 165 children (between 6 and 17 years of age) who had had no satisfying control [...]