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| What is the risk of using medicines for the cold in children? |
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Now when the doctors desincentivan the use of medicines for the cold in small children, principally for the side effects that
they provoke; the question is to know how to treat them when they fall ill.
Next the answer. |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
The common belief indicates that, to calm the cold of a child, the medicines that are on the counter of drugstores or supermarkets are a good option.
Nevertheless, the experts have come desincentivando the use of these medicines not only in small children, but also in those a little major.
But, if these products are not recommended, of that time: how to treat the cold of a child? Next the answer.
The problem
The infantile medicines for the cold or the cough that they are on the counter of supermarkets and drugstores do not treat these illnesses. In fact, it have been proved that are not effective. Also, certain risks exist. For example, the sedative effect of the antihistamines can be dangerous for children who have difficulty of breathing. For the smallest, an overdose can be fatal.
The FDA recommends to the parents to avoid these medicines in the absolute thing in children younger than two years. Also, in October of last year, the Association of Consuming Products of Health voluntarily re labeled these products only for major than four years.
And if these medicines worked in the past?
The most probable thing, say the experts, is that if a child improved on having used these medicines, the most probable thing is that the symptoms have disappeared themselves. It is an important knowledge that is not necessary to treat the fever low in children, since this is a natural way of the body of battling against the microbes that invade it. Also, the studies show that the medicines against the cold for children are not more effective than the placebo.
Are there a problem for children older than four years?
The biggest children are not so capable of suffering side effects as the smallest. Some of these it gives them sleep, while others can have a more positive effect. Nevertheless, remember that these products do not treat the condition. For while, the experts in the FDA are studying in detail the effects of these drugs. But, if he decides to use them with his children, insure of following the instructions in detail.
What medicines to use?
Any medicine against the pain can serve, like the acetaminofeno or the iburoprofeno, which can reduce the fever and diminish the pain of head and of gullet. Again, the light fevers do not need treatment. If you give a remedy for the pain to his child, continue the instructions. Not him of iburoprofeno to a minor baby of six months and avoid to give aspirin to 18-year-old minors, since this one is related to the Kings' Syndrome, which can be fatal sometimes. At the same time, be careful of using natural treatments, like the use of herbs. Few studies have been done on the effect of such therapies in children. Consult with his first doctor.
When to use antibiotics?
The cold is caused by virus, therefore the antibiotics will not serve. And while I used more antibiotics with his son, more probable it will be that it falls ill with infections resistant to antibiotics in the future.
How to treat the cold
There is no priest for the common cold, but there are ways of helping his son to feel better while it is a question of recovering.
Give him a lot of liquid. The liquids help to descongestionar, and the cough can help to clean the mucous membranes of the airlines of his son. It can be a water or juice and serve soup of chicken of lunch or dinner.
Leave it that I rested. Do not force his son to go to the school when it has fever or severe cough.
Dampen the air. Put a humidificador in the piece of his child to calm the nasal annoyance that he could suffer. Direct the moisture jet far from the bed of the child, so that this one does not become damp. To prevent mold from growing, changing the water every day and following the instructions of cleanliness of the unit. It can help the steam of a warm shower also.
Prove saline drops. These can help to descongestionar the nose of his child, helping him to breathe. These sell them in the drugstore.
Calm the sore throat. For major children, to do gargles with salt water or to eat up a sweet can calm the sore throat.
When to call the 'Doc'
Most of the cold are cured themselves but take the symptoms of his child in serious form. If you have a minor baby of three months, call the doctor to the first illness sign. For newborn babies, a common cold a pneumonia turns. Call the doctor also if his child does not urinate often, if it has major temperature to 103rd F (39.4th C) for one day or major to 101st F (38.3rd C) for more than one week.
| He interviews the dentist Maria Cújar: |
| ““The persons must go to the dentist at least two times a year” |
For Felipe Lagos
Washington Hispanic
“If someone does not have dental insurance, the access to this type of attention gets dearer in considerable form.
The reason for which the dental attention is expensive has to do with the grade of intensity with which the dentists work, and the high cost of the hardware that they use.
This way it is explained by the dentist Maria Cújar, who is employed at the Center Dental AMC Spa (www.amcdentalspa.com). “The dental services are expensive because, compared with a family doctor, the odontology services need many more modernization, teams, instruments, light, material, and human resources that are present 100 % of the time, more the honorarium of the dentist. Also, these services are done to the measurement of the person, since the treatment is done in the same mouth of the patient”, says Cújar.
— How is the mouth health of the Hispanics?
“ I think that two groups exist. The Hispanics who take care of the teeth because they have access to dental insurance have better health. On the other hand, there are those who have no insurance and when they come only it is for emergency, for what the illnesses are more advanced in this point”.
— What are the most common problems?
“ In those who have no insurance, very advanced caries and illness of the gums, like periodontitis. The causes of the caries are the carbohydrates consumption, and the illness of the gums is genetic. Also we see calculations accumulation about the teeth on not having done the professional cleanliness to him every six months”.
— What is the alternative for those who have no insurance?
“ What I offer them is to treat them as if they had dental insurance. These insurances handle tariffs that are 20 % minor than the particular cashing. The persons must know that it is necessary to maintain contact with the dentist at least two times a year, if there is a problem”.
| Hispanic minors in major risk |
Six million children have needs
unsatisfied doctors |
Writing / agency
Washington Hispanic
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| A study points out that the Hispanic children are in major risk of not having his satisfied needs for health. |
The children who neither have health insurance do not even gain access to an attention of regular health they are more inclined to have unsatisfied medical needs, according to an investigation of the Pediatric Hospital C.S. Mott of the University of Michigan.
The finds show that the government must do more for protecting the health of the vulnerable children, according to the investigators, who pointed out that the number of children with unsatisfied medical needs increased of 4.5 millions in 1998 to 6.2 millions in 2006.
The analysis of the information of the Centers for the Control and the Prevention of Illnesses of the USA. showed that between 1998 and 2006, there was an increase in the proportion of children inscribed in public programs and a reduction in the proportion with private insurance.
The children's index that they had no insurance continued in nearly ten per cent between 2002 and 2006, but the children's proportion that they did not have sure without a usual source of attention (FUA) increased in 23 per cent in 2006.
The Hispanic children shape at present most of those who have not even FUA sure.
The private offices kept on being a FUA for most of children, independently if they have or not insurance. Nevertheless, there has been a recent reduction in the indexes of children not insured and inscribed in SCHIP that take a private office as AS FUA.
The children who have no insurance and those who have no FUA are more inclined to have unsatisfied medical needs that the children with private insurance and a FUA.
The children with public insurance are the double of inclined to have unsatisfied medical needs that the children with private insurance. The finds, which appear in the edition of February of the magazine Pediatrics, show that the governmental programs like Medicaid, the state Program of insurance of infantile health (SCHIP), and the Presidential Initiative of health Centers do not solve completely the needs for attention of health of the most vulnerable children, warned the Dra. Leesha K. Hoilette, subspecialist in pediatric investigation of health services of the Unit of evaluation and investigation of the infantile health of the Division of general paediatrics of Or M.
“ As the nation keeps on focusing in the future of the attention of health, and in particular in the health of the children, it seems insufficient to focus the politics efforts in the coverage of attention of health or in the access themselves. The initiatives must go of form combined so much to the coverage like the access to reduce the medical needs unsatisfied”, affirmed Hoilette.
| Air pollution control delivers health benefits |
| Women have less aptitude to resist when they feel famine |
For Randolph Schmid
AP
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| The contamination of the air reduces years the persons, while the clean air increases the life expectation. |
The women are less capable than the men of suppressing his longing for eating when they sight his favorite delicacies, what might tell why the valuations of obesity of the women are major than those of the men, indicated a study.
The group of the National Laboratory Brookhaven expressed itself surprised by the finds on how the women and the men have different aptitudes to control his food consumption.
The scientists submitted to tomografías cerebral 13 women and 10 men who had fasted during the night and to that they were placed I faced his favorite meal. “In the brains of the women something different happens”, said Gene-Jack Wang, one of the scientists. “His cerebral signs are extremely different”.
In the experiment, one asked first the participants about him on his favorite meals.
Some of them said pizza, others hamburger, others chocolate cake or another delicacy.
One asked them all to happen the night on an empty stomach.
On the following day they were placed face his favorite meals at the time that the answer was measuring itself in his brains. Also he asked himself them to use psychological tactics to suppress thoughts of famine or of meal.
Although both men and women said that the inhibiting method worked and that they were hungry, the cerebral tomografías show that the activity of the men yes diminished, but it did not that of the women. The cerebral functions of the women related to the answer to the meal stayed active.
“ Although the women said to be hungry when they were treating of cohibir his answer to the meal, the mental part that controls the longing for eating was still extremely active”, expressed Wang.
Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug addiction and coauthor of the study, said that the team remained surprised by the differences between the sexes and that these probably owe to the different nourishing needs of men and women, although he emphasized that this idea is an only one conjecture.
Because the traditional role of the woman is to nourish the baby, the feminine brain probably is designed to consume food whenever they are available, said Volkow.
The next step is to find out if the feminine hormones are reacting straight with these areas of the brain.
“ In our society we are bombarded constantly with stimuli that give us famine”, said Volkow.
For it, he added that it is important to understand the answer of the brain to find out if there are ways of resisting these stimuli.
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