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...
Neuroinfections in children - causes, symptoms, treatment and forms of prevention
Neuroinfections are the common name for infectious diseases of the nervous system, of which meningitis and encephalitis are the most common in children. Due to the difficulty of contact, especially...
In the uneven fight against rotavirus
Rotavirus infection is an extremely dangerous type of infection in terms of the effects it has on children. Rotavirus causes diarrhoea which, in many cases, leads to dehydration, often resulting in...
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...
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...
