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During the first year of life infants diseases are not many, because during pregnancy the mother received antibodies, passed to the fetus through the placenta. In addition, breast-feeding protects the baby from many illnesses.

Breast milk has several mechanisms of protection:

• The composition of milk contains substances that hinder the development of viruses and bacteria such as lysozyme, lactoferrin, immunoglobulins, factor bifidófilo.
• Being a natural substance, produced especially for the baby, does not irritate the intestine, so that the infant mucosal barrier remains intact, thus not allowing the entry of foreign substances.
• If the mother has an acute, produces antibodies that pass into breast milk, protecting the baby. This is true for diarrhea, etc..
Care to diseases of infants:

The baby’s immune system has been consolidated during the first moments of life. From birth it is necessary to monitor the baby for any signs of illness early. It is also essential to continue the vaccination schedule for prevention of diseases in infants, which could be fatal.

The procedure for diagnosis of diseases is to identify specific clinical symptoms during the first week of life, as a way of recognizing them.

There are a number of measures to prevent diseases of infants:

Dehydration, for example, can be seen because the baby cries and drink any liquid eagerly offered.

As dehydration progresses, the fontanelles may appear swollen and sunken eyes. Also the mouth and tongue become dry and rough. And may have a fever.

When the baby is otitis (inflammation in any area of the ear) which can be caused by an infection or not. dangerous accumulation of fluid in the inner ear.

The causes of otitis can be simple, such as bath water entering the ear canal, irritating the skin. You can also become infected root hairs in the area. Colds are the cause of otitis media, because the mucous membranes become inflamed, blocking the Eustachian tube.
If the baby gets used to taking a bottle very bed, milk passes to the Eustachian tube, causing inflammation.

A baby of seven months of age died at 8:23 pm Sunday, ten hours after being taken to the Hospital of Infectious Diseases Heze. Another baby of 15 months of age died this noon at the District People’s Hospital Juancheng, said the Health Department of Shandong Provincial.

The Health Ministry said MPB’s disease may be caused by intestinal viruses, with the EV71 and the Coxsackievirus (Cox A16) were the most common.

MPB’s disease usually starts with a slight fever followed by blisters and ulcers in the mouth and rashes on hands and feet. Those with EV71 often show serious signs. It can also cause meningitis, encephalitis, pneumonia, and edema and paralysis in some children. So far no vaccine for the disease.

The Health Department has sent expert teams to Heze to implement emergency treatments and control measures and prevention of disease.

Some groups came to Heze tonight to begin research on the disease and disinfection operations, technical training and medical education among people.

They were also sent medical teams to Heze to help in combating the disease.

HEPATITIS: The most serious complications during pregnancy are hepatitis B and C, transmitted through blood and sexual contact. Many babies of women infected with HIV are infected at birth and become chronic carriers of this disease. Since test is usually performed in the first hepatitis blood test that asks the gynecologist pregnant so, if any made, take the necessary measures.

AIDS poses a significant threat to both the mother and her child. It is advisable to carry out testing for HIV. It is increasingly common for the gynecologist ordering this test to pregnant women on their first visit although neither it nor its partner belonging to a risk group.

Rubella, or: can be very harmful to the fetus and cause serious malformations. They can also increase the risk of abortion and cause premature birth. If you have already passed or have been vaccinated, the risk that the contract and they affect your baby does not exist. If not and you contract the infection during pregnancy, sometimes there are treatments to prevent your child sick, but the best thing is to get vaccinated against these diseases before pregnancy if possible.

Toxoplasmosis: Caused by a parasite that can be contracted in the feces of cats in the land of plants and in raw or undercooked meat. The parasite can cause brain damage to the developing baby if you become infected during pregnancy. The risk of transmission is higher in the last trimester of pregnancy, but is most severe in the first three months.If pregnant once you have no choice to live every day with pets, simply follow a series of recommendations. Avoid cleaning your stools or at least wear gloves. The same if you make gardens. It is best to feed your cat or dog with canned meat. It is very important to wash hands thoroughly after contact with soil, cats, raw meat and vegetables. And as for your diet avoid eating raw, undercooked or cured meats and vegetables make sure that this well-washed fresh.

In 1902 Sir Archibald Garrod noted that some of their patients had conditions that persisted throughout life and are produced by a defect in the activity of an enzyme or a transport process within the cell that results in the alteration of a metabolic pathway determined and a block on the biochemical reactions of this course and patients described what came to be called “inborn errors of metabolism”: albinism, cystinuria (disorder characterized by stones in the kidneys, ureter and bladder caused by excessive secretion certain amino acids (building blocks of proteins) due to a genetic abnormality) and alkaptonuria (rare metabolic disorder characterized by urine that turns dark on exposure to air and the development of arthritis in adulthood).

Most of these defects are inherited in an autosomal recessive or X-linked, so there is not always a history of disease in parents, only a few are inherited in dominant form.

Early detection of such conditions allows appropriate treatment early and this improves the prognosis of these patients to stop the progression of the disease and its complications and sequelae.
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