Chronic Cough… Non Infective Bronchitis 17 Mar 202215 Mar 2022 Exposure to environmental pollutants can trigger non-infective bronchitis and chronic cough in children. Worldwide, indoor air pollution is a major contributor to respiratory health. Children show more severe symptoms than adults…
Gluten Sensitive Enteropathy (Celiac Disease)… Potential Celiac Disease 13 Mar 202211 Mar 2022 Potential celiac disease refers to patients who are diagnosed with gluten sensitivity by a positive TTG-IgA or endomysial antibody but who have a normal small bowel biopsy. For these patients,…
Dental Caries… Dental Caries 10 Mar 20228 Mar 2022 Dental caries develops slowly over time due to gradual loss of tooth substance (enamel and dentine) caused by acid production resulting from bacterial metabolism of sugars. Early stages are often…
Breastfeeding… Infant Feeding in HIV positive mother 6 Mar 20226 Mar 2022 Pregnant women who regularly receive Anti Retroviral Therapy(ART) before delivery are expected to have a low number of HIV copies in their blood and pose a negligible risk of transmission…
Breastfeeding… Maternal Cytomegalovirus infection and Breastfeeding 3 Mar 20221 Mar 2022 Many a times pregnant women are found to be CMV-IgG seropositive and more than 50% of CMV-IgG positive mothers produce CMV-positive breastmilk Postnatal CMV infection with maternal infected liquids (milk,…
Breastfeeding… Perinatal Varicella and breastfeeding 27 Feb 202227 Feb 2022 A maternal varicella infection in the last 4 weeks of a woman’s pregnancy poses a high risk of varicella infection of the new born. If there are no other risks…
Breastfeeding… Breastfeeding during pregnancy 24 Feb 202222 Feb 2022 A Mother may be still breastfeeding when she conceives again. This creates the dilemma of whether to continue breastfeed or not, as there is often a social and medical pressure…
Breastfeeding… Maternal Medications and Breastfeeding 20 Feb 202220 Feb 2022 Drug inserts or prescribing information leaflets of most of the commonly used drugs would mention a restriction during both pregnancy and breastfeeding, despite a lack of scientific evidence to support…
Breastfeeding… When breastfeeding is really contraindicated 17 Feb 202215 Feb 2022 Following are the only valid scenarios of Absolute contraindications of a breastfeeding Maternal Drugs Cytotoxic drugs Cyclophosphamide, MethotrexateInfant Galactosemia or Phenyl KetonuriaMother is using an illicit street drug (Substance Abuse)Maternal Ebola…
Protracted Bacterial Bronchitis… Protracted Bacterial Bronchitis PBB 13 Feb 202211 Feb 2022 PBB is increasingly being considered to be one of the common causes of chronic wet cough, particularly in young children (<5 years of age) in western countries for the past…
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