10 diseases that can affect children. Find out more!

Children get sick, it is a reality. As a parent, maybe it’s what worries you most. Vaccines are a great addition to prevent certain diseases from spreading, but with the rise of the trend that now have some parents not to vaccinate their children, some diseases have re-emerged. Others are less...

Early treatment of bacterial meningitis leads to improved outcomes

ESTIMATED MAYO CLINIC: I hear in the news stories about meningitis scare me much. What causes meningitis and how I can protect my children and myself? ANSWER from Dr. Ritu Banerjee, Infectious Diseases in Children, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA: Meningitis is an inflammation of the membranes...

How to act if the baby has a febrile seizure

One of the conditions that most alarms the parents, especially first-timers, is that your baby has a fever (ie its temperature exceeds 38 C 100.4 º F or º). In itself, the fever is not a disease but a symptom that something else is happening to the baby: you have a cold or some kind of infection....

Cigarette smoke damages the hearing of adolescents

Let them snuff the smoke is bad for your lungs – even those who do not smoke but breathe it in their environment – is well known and warnings are repeated continuously. If you were told that also can damage the hearing of adolescents, are you surprised? In this article we tell you what a...

Do you support no smoking on beaches and parks?

It all started in New York, when in February this year approved the ban on New York’s City Council to extend the restriction of snuff to multiple public spaces. More than 1,700 public parks and 22 miles of beaches came into the regulations. And now, you can still smoke in public, although there are...
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