Editorial Team. BLKPP – Pediatric Practice… Pearls for your Pediatric Office Practice

NOVEL CORONA VIRUS COVID-19…

VITAMIN C : How Important in Viral illnesses?

9 Jul 20209 Jul 2020

Vitamin C is an essential micronutrient for humans, with pleiotropic functions related to its potent antioxidant and a cofactor for a family of biosynthetic and gene regulatory enzymes. Vitamin C…

INFECTIOUS DISEASES…

How long a COVID positive case can be infective?

11 Jun 202010 Jun 2020

To address this not so easy question we need to first understand the concept of Cycle Threshold (CT) in RT-PCR for COVID CT is the number of replication cycles required…

Immunological Disorders…

Periodic Fever Aphthous Stomatitis Pharyngitis Adenitis Syndrome PFAPA Part 2

4 Jun 202031 May 2020

Continued from previous post…(Clinical Symptoms & Diagnosis click to read) WHEN IT IS NOT PFAPA Patients should be evaluated for the following features since the presence of any of them…

Immunological Disorders…

Periodic Fever Aphthous Stomatitis Pharyngitis Adenitis – PFAPA Syndrome: Part 1

31 May 202031 May 2020

PFAPA is a common autoinflammatory syndrome in childhood. The onset is usually before 5 years of age and attacks typically cease by 10 years of age in most patients, though a minority…

VACCINATIONS…

Vaccination in immunocompromised children: Part 2

28 May 202022 May 2020

There may be certain situations where even immunocompromised need to be given vaccines, even if a suboptimal immune response is expected… Mammalian bites & Rabies Thorough wound management and antisepsis…

VACCINATIONS…

Vaccination in immunocompromised children: Part 1

24 May 202024 May 2020

IAP has guidelines for vaccination of children in situations, where a child is considered to be immunocompromised and an appropriate immune response to a vaccine is not mounted. These scenarios…

IAP VACCINE GUIDELINES…

IAP VACCINE GUIDELINES BOOKLET 2018-2019 with corrections

20 May 202020 May 2020

CLICK the LINK to Download the booklet released with corrections in May 2020. List of corrections is added in the END of booklet

Breastfeeding…

NRP Guidelines during the COVID-19 Pandemic

17 May 202016 May 2020

Resuscitation of neonate preferably to be done in a physically separate room adjacent to delivery room. However, If not feasible due to logistic issues then resuscitation trolley should be physically…

INFECTIOUS DISEASES…

Donning & Doffing of Personal Protective Equipment(PPE)

https://youtu.be/Vanmj0MsKN0 Donning & Doffing of Personal Protective Equipment- PPE, A very informative Demo Video by efforts from Infectious Diseases Team of AIIMS, Delhi. Many of us who are in a…

INFECTIOUS DISEASES…

Laboratory testing of Novel Corona Virus (SARS-CoV-2)

8 Mar 20203 Mar 2020

Testing for Novel Corona virus (SARS-CoV-2) is done by detection Viral RNA detection by PCR Techniques Existing Multiplex PCR kits with respiratory virus panels, such as those manufactured by Biofire…