Is broth really an effective way to fight a cold?
There are many ways to treat a cold. Examples include the use of various over-the-counter specifics bought from the pharmacy, but also various home remedies for treating a cold. Raspberry juice,...
New category in the diagnosis of cystic fibrosis
Cystic fibrosis is a congenital genetic disorder involving mutations in the CFTR gene. Due to the scale of the prevalence of the disease, screening for cystic fibrosis has been carried out in Poland...
Jaundice in the newborn baby
Jaundice in newborns is the most common symptom observed during the first hours and days of life. Early jaundice, is associated with elevated levels of bilirubin in the blood - the highest during...
Plagiocephaly and its treatment
Pregnancy is one of the happiest moments in life. The crowning event of giving birth and welcoming a baby into the world is a special moment. The tests that are carried out during pregnancy are...
Ondine's Curse - an entity that can kill in your sleep ...
In medicine, there are many different disease entities with mysterious-sounding names. Wegener's granulomatosis, fish odour disease or Burkitt's lymphoma are just a few examples. An entity with also...
Birk - Barel syndrome - do you know what this disease is?
Genetic diseases result from changes in both individual genes and in the structure of entire chromosomes. Unfortunately, many genetic changes are caused by spontaneous mutations that are beyond our...
Distant effects of respiratory infections in children
When it comes to various childhood illnesses, it is not uncommon for parents to worry about whether these individuals will lead to any future complications. In most cases, most likely not, but it is...
Canalopathies - genetically determined syndromes that cause cardiac arrhythmias
Channelopathies are genetically determined diseases that share certain common clinical features. The pathogenesis is related to the occurrence of mutations in genes encoding proteins that make up ion...
Salmonella - how dangerous is this bacterium?
We often hear in the media about food recalls due to the detection of salmonella or salmonella poisoning in schools, kindergartens and summer camps. What is this bacterium, how does it get infected...
Do you know what cherubism is ?
The human genetic code, encodes information about all the characteristics of each of us - appearance, eye colour, hair colour, freckles, taste preferences, tastes. Changes in the genetic code result...
Children who lose their father may develop genetic defects
It is not uncommon to hear the opinion that the mother is the most important person for the child. However, the role of the father in a young person's life should definitely not be overlooked;...
Sunset syndrome - what is it ?
When observing their young child, more than once parents notice that " something" in the child's appearance makes them uneasy. Seemingly everything is fine, the child is smiling, playing - but...
Cutaneous manifestations of Lyme disease in children
Lyme disease is a condition caused by infection with Lyme spirochetes, which are usually transmitted by ticks. The main symptoms characterised by Lyme disease are the cutaneous manifestations in...
Popular drugs can reverse the effects of alcohol consumption during pregnancy?
Alcohol is definitely forbidden during pregnancy - abstinence is recommended for pregnant women on the grounds that alcohol consumption puts the baby at risk of foetal alcohol syndrome. There are...
Increase in diabetes among children
Diabetes (from the Latin diabetes mellitus) is one of the most common chronic diseases of childhood. According to data published by The New England Journal Of Medicine, the incidence of type 1 and...
Immune thrombocytopenia in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Immune thrombocytopenia (abbreviated ITP-immune thrombocytopenia), previously also called spontaneous thrombocytopenia or Werlhof's disease, is one of the most common blood diseases affecting...
Diagnosing autism through... a blood test?
Autism presents not only a therapeutic challenge, but also a diagnostic challenge. For the latter reason, scientists are constantly on the lookout for more and new methods of diagnosing autism...
Convergent and divergent strabismus - causes and treatment
Astrabismus is an eye condition - usually associated with weakness of the eye muscles. A strabismus is not just an aesthetic problem - if left untreated, it can result in many medical consequences....
Type 1 diabetes - symptoms, diagnosis and treatment.
Type 2 diabetes is a disease that develops quietly over many years without producing any obvious symptoms. Fortunately, with type 1 diabetes, the symptoms usually appear quite quickly and are so...
Type 1 (insulin-dependent) diabetes - basic information about the disease.
Diabetes is one of the most dangerous diseases of civilisation. The number of people diagnosed with the disease is increasing every year. This is particularly dangerous given the havoc that...
