Dark circles under the eyes in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Dark colouring of the skin under the eyes can have various causes. It can be a genetic predisposition or a symptom of systemic or local diseases. It appears at any age, including often in children....
Dyspnoea in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, prevention
Dyspnoea is defined as a sensation of lack of air/problem taking in air, resulting in difficulty breathing. Children who have experienced dyspnoea describe it as a problem taking in air,...
Smallpox in young children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, complications
Smallpox is an infectious disease that is very common in pre-school children and in the first year of primary school. The disease is droplet-transmitted, with the highest incidence in February and...
Skin fungus in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Fungal skin infections in children are among the common infectious diseases. Observations show that they more often affect boys, although they are also encountered in girls. They are most common in...
Nervous abdominal pain in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Many parents, come to the doctor with their children, for reasons of abdominal pain(s). Sometimes examinations do not reveal any illness, but the abdomen still hurts. It is then worth observing under...
Tourettes syndrome in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, genetic background
Research into the prevalence of Tourette's syndrome in children is still ongoing, as is the search for the cause of the development of this illness. The symptoms of the disease vary greatly from...
Mycoplasma in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Bacteria belonging to the Mycoplasma family are very small (approx. 0.3- 0.8 micrometres), microorganisms that do not have a cell wall. Many parents do not realise that their children may be...
Sepsis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Sepsis in most people, causes, anxiety and risks to health and life. It is a very complicated and complex process involving many different inflammatory factors.
AD - a big problem for a young child
Atopic dermatitis is a chronic inflammatory disease affecting the epidermis and dermis. Its hallmarks are increased pruritus and the typical location and area of the lesions. AD is most commonly...
Dangerous complications from measles
Measles is classed as a dangerous infectious disease, it is caused by a virus called Measles virus, it belongs to the rather large genus Morbilivirus, which in turn belongs to the Paramyxoiviriade...
Angina in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Angina (pharyngitis) in children, is caused by streptococci. It is otherwise known as acute inflammation of the palatine tonsils and pharyngeal mucosa. The disease is transmitted by the droplet route.
Exudative pleuritis in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Many people cannot imagine what the pleura is. It is a narrow fissure (between the pulmonary pleura and the mural pleura) that contains small amounts of serous fluid. Its role is to wet the laminae...
Shingles in children
Shingles, or septicaemia, is an infectious disease that is caused by the same virus as in chickenpox (Herpesvirus varicella zoster). After the chickenpox has been treated, the virus remains in the...
Rubella - symptoms, diagnosis and course
Rubella is a childhood disease which belongs to the group of infectious diseases. It is caused by the rubella virus, a virus of the RNA group. The disease is characterised by moderate symptoms in the...
Obstructive sleep apnoea in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Obstructive sleep ap noea(ESRS) is an increasingly common childhood condition, which is linked to the 'scourge' of obesity. It most commonly occurs in pre-school children in which, in addition,...
Rubella - prevention and complications - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Rubella is an infectious viral disease that mainly affects older children and adolescents. The most common and basic method of preventing the disease is vaccination, which is part of the basic...
Pertussis - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Pertussis is an infectious bacterial disease that most commonly affects children.It is most dangerous for newborns and children under 1 year of age.
Conjunctivitis in newborns - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Conjunctivitis affects approximately 1-12% of newborns and can be either bilateral or unilateral. Conjunctivitis in newborns is an inflammation of the mucous membrane that covers the sclera and the...
Migraine in a child - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Headaches are one of the most common reasons for parents to visit the paediatrician with their child. When they are paroxysmal, accompanied by photophobia, hypersensitivity to sounds, tastes, nausea,...
Pertussis, child cough - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Pertussis is a bacterial infectious disease that takes the form of a chronic bronchitis with a characteristic cough. It is caused by the aerobic Gram negative bacteria Bordetella pertussis. The...
Herpes labialis and HSV 1 infection in children - causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Herpes labialis is a contagious disease caused by the herpes virus ( HSV 1). Humans are the only reservoir of the HSV virus. There is also a subtype of HSV-2 virus that causes infection of the...
