Asthma is a disease that affects people’s airways both during childhood and adulthood. However, in the case of the youngest children, parents should know very well the disease and its manifestations in order to know how to act on them. What is asthma? Asthma is an ailment that inflames the bronchial tubes and contracts the … Read more
When we perform a simple blood test we can distinguish three main types of cells: red blood cells or red cells, white blood cells or leukocytes and platelets. When a patient is informed that he is anemic, we understand that the number, quantity, or color and size of red blood cells are below the limits … Read more
Asthma is the most common chronic disease in childhood due mainly to changes in our living conditions and family environment. An asthma attack is an episode of shortness of breath with coughing, wheezing (whistling or whistling in the chest), fatigue and chest tightness. The cause is a decrease in airflow due to bronchial obstruction and … Read more
More than 20 centuries of feeding and we are still not clear about what is the best feeding for us and our babies! I make this statement because in Infant Nutrition there are constant changes to try to improve feeding and its consequences. What we thought yesterday was unthinkable or that it was a panacea … Read more
The Innowalk is a motorized technical aid that allows people with a physical disability to perform assisted walking while standing (walking on both lower limbs), as well as assisted pedaling while seated (sitting independently). The Innowalk allows for more active standing, providing active-assisted leg mobility by imitating the reciprocal gait pattern and achieving a complete … Read more
There are cases in which the biological parents cannot take care of their children, so the guardianship of the children passes to other relatives or to the administration. In the latter case, they may be in a center living with other children or they may be with foster families. In principle, the idea of foster … Read more
In recent years, there has been a technological revolution in telecommunications, allowing any user, from anywhere in the world, to remotely transmit digitized information via mobile telephony and the Internet. The main objective of telemedicine is the transmission of patient information for consultations, evaluations, diagnoses and treatments. In order to provide adequate and correct pre-adoptive … Read more
The day some parents receive the news that they will have an assignment, that they have been chosen to adopt a child, they will be nervous. They may have been told their age, whether it is a boy or a girl, but nothing more. In the following days there will be an official meeting where … Read more
Stunting is a term used to describe children who do not gain weight or height over a period of time. It is also applied to children who are below the 3rd percentile for their age and based on standard medical growth charts. When stunting is caused by medical problems it is called organic stunting. The … Read more
Adopted children are a group at risk of developing certain neuropsychological pathologies. Why? Many have suffered, among their antecedents, prenatal exposure to toxins -mainly alcohol-, intrauterine growth retardation, prematurity, abandonment, abuse and neglect, early and prolonged institutionalization, and emotional and psychosocial deprivation during institutionalization. What are the most common neuropsychological pathologies? – Attention deficit hyperactivity … Read more