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A febrile seizure is defined as a seizure in children aged 6 months to 5 years, accompanied by fever, and without central nervous system infection. These episodes generally last less than 15 minutes, and do not recur within 24 hours. The American Academy of Pediatrics has recently updated its 1996 [...]
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Orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is defined as a rise in heart rate ≥ 30 bpm during or after a head-up tilt test. Accompanying symptoms include chronic fatigue, headache, dizziness, nausea, syncope, and abdominal pain. The syndrome, which was initially considered an adult condition, is [...]
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In April 2008, the American Heart Association (AHA) published a scientific statement recommending electrocardiogram (ECG) screening for all adolescents who are prescribed stimulant medication, while in August of the same year, the American Academy of Pediatrics published guidelines indicating that [...]
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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 [...]