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How common is rotavirus?

Rotavirus is the leading cause of severe acute gastroenteritis in children under 2 years worldwide. It affects all children in both developing countries as in industrialized countries.

Rotavirus is responsible for about 138 million cases of infantile gastroenteritis worldwide and approximately 500,000 deaths each year, mostly in developing countries where, according to World Health Organization (WHO) is one of the five leading causes of infant mortality .

How does it differ from others? Is it dangerous?

Children with rotavirus diarrhea are more likely to have more severe symptoms and dehydration. Vomiting in Rotavirus infection is more common and prolonged in cases of gastroenteritis caused by other agents and this complicates oral rehydration. Read the rest of this entry »

“Vaccines are the most promising method to prevent the disease.”

It is estimated that all children worldwide have suffered an episode of rotavirus before their fifth birthday. The incubation period for rotavirus infection is between one and three days and has a beginning “sharp” that presents with fever between 30% and 59% of cases, with vomiting from 80% to 90% cases with acute watery diarrhea of ​​5 to 10 episodes a day.

For Dr. Juan Picazo de la Garza, professor of Clinical Microbiology Hospital Clínico San Carlos, Madrid, is a “democratic disease” that affects both developing and industrialized countries. Read the rest of this entry »

Some 4,400 cases of lead poisoning (acute or chronic poisoning with lead) were recorded in France between 2008 and 2009 in children aged 1 to 6 years, according to a study by the Institute of Health Surveillance (VS) published in the Bulletin Epidemiological Record (BEH).

The survey “shows that the number of children 1 to 6 years with a higher blood lead greater than 100 micrograms per liter (definition of childhood lead poisoning) was divided by 20 from 1995 to 1996 (previous study)” . The prevalence of childhood lead poisoning was estimated at 2.1% is now estimated at 0.1%.

The affected children usually live in a “degraded habitat” with “an overcrowding housing” and a “social factors”.

These results show that the preventive action for 15 years (eliminating leaded gasoline, improving nutrition, water treatment, public distribution, habitat improvement, control of industrial emissions) have been effective, JA report.

The study also shows that 25% of children aged 1 to 6 years have blood lead levels above 25 micrograms per liter and 5% blood lead levels exceeding 34 micrograms / liter. ‘That remains a concern because lead is a poison for which there is no known threshold below which there would be no effect: recent studies show adverse effects on cognitive and motor development of children levels impregnation, as low, “the report said.

“We must act on the sources of exposure still exist to reduce the infiltration of children in France. The additional statistical analysis of data collected in the survey InVS to better understand what are the dominant sources of infiltration present “.

Research conducted by a group of British psychologists have shown that infants remember the melodies heard in the womb for at least one year after his birth. It is known that the baby in uteri is able to hear from the 20th week after conception.
According to reports by Dr. Alexandra Lamont, from the University of Leicester, has now been discovered that babies, during the first year after birth, can remember and have a preference for the music they heard when they were in the womb. The babies are likely to develop a sense of “familiarity” with the music they hear during their pregnancy.
What is the period for which the baby can hear and remember?

This research will last a total of 20 years, and early results indicate that if you hear a baby makes a sound determined during the last three months of pregnancy and three months after the birth of that melody is repeated, looking with their babies eyes the source from where the music, not so, if they hear any other music does. The music style is not important, can be anything from classical music, pop and reggae!
What music do you prefer the baby?

What is also noted, is that after one year of age, have a greater preference for live music and fast as “The Four Seasons” by Vivaldi. It is assessing to what extent this receiving prenatal stimulation through music, serves to further develop their intellectual or musical skills in the long term, it is because the investigation will take 20 years.