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...
Van der Woude syndrome - symptoms, course and treatments
The van der Woude syndrome is an extremely rare genetic defect that, according to statistics, affects two babies per hundred thousand live births. The disease is extremely rare, but its clinical...
WHO warns: measles is back!
According to WHO data, more than 500 measles cases were reported in Europe in January 2017, with more than 470 cases in 7 countries. The highest percentage in Romania and Italy, but a high incidence...
What is Di George syndrome?
Di George syndrome is classified as a disease that is caused by genetic mutations. Mutations are sudden and spontaneous changes in the structure of DNA that cause abnormalities to appear in the body....
Chickenpox - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
It is now the season of increased cases of chickenpox, a highly contagious disease that spreads by the droplet route. How does it manifest itself and why is it dangerous? Can it be prevented? What is...
Nail fungus in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Nail fungus (onychomycosis) is rare in children, but the incidence of the disease has been increasing in recent years. The basis of effective treatment is a thorough assessment of the changes...
What is Prader-Willi syndrome?
Prader-Willi syndrome is considered to be one of the extremely rare genetic diseases. The disease is characterised by the appearance of a number of characteristic clinical symptoms. According to...
What is Jacobsen Syndrome?
Jacobsen syndrome is classed as an extremely rare genetic condition. The disease is extremely rare, affecting less than one child in one hundred and twenty thousand births. Jacobsen syndrome is...
Attempts to treat cystic fibrosis using stem cells
Cystic fibrosis is a disease that is sometimes diagnosed in early childhood. At present, it is possible to extend the survival time of patients, although the ideal cystic fibrosis therapy has still...
What is Cri du Chat syndrome?
Cri du Chat syndrome is known in the literature as 'Cat Scream Syndrome'. It is an extremely rare genetic condition, occurring in one child in nearly 50,000 births. A genetic mutation within...
Diabetes mellitus in children - what symptoms may indicate its onset?
Diabetes mellitusis a metabolic disease characterised by a disorder of carbohydratemetabolism. Its intrinsic component is a state of hyperglycaemia, i.e. an elevated blood glucose concentration,...
Use of inhalation therapy in childhood diseases
Inhalation therapy has a wide range of applications in the treatment of many respiratory diseases, both in the context of conditions affecting the lungs, as well as those affecting the nasal cavity...
Probiotics and prebiotics and atopic dermatitis
Atopic dermatitis is one of the most common allergic conditions in children. In theory, allergies are already well understood, in practice, not everything is really certain - this is why there is...
Autoimmune haemolytic anaemias, or can we destroy our own blood cells?
Autoimmune anaemias are a disease entity based on an abnormal functioning of the immune system. This abnormal response involves the destruction of the body's own cells as a result of misrecognition...
What is achondroplasia?
Achondroplasia is classified as a genetic disease, occurring once in every 28,000 live births. The disease manifests itself in infancy, producing symptoms such as changes in the appearance of the...
Viral pneumonia in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
The lungs (Latin pulmo) have been developed in humans as a result of the increased need for oxygen. The embryonic cotyledon from which they arise is the endoderm. Like other organs in the human body,...
