Child's Health

Yesterday, the results of the PASOS study were presented, a pioneering study on the physical activity and lifestyles of Spanish children and adolescents, carried out by the Gasol Foundation. According to this research, only 36.4% of children do the physical exercise advised by WHO and almost 80% spend more time than recommended in front of the screens.

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Between two and twelve years of age it is common for children to suffer pain in the legs that are not caused by any blow. The parents are very worried about these discomforts believing that something bad can happen to the child, but most of the time it is about growing pains, which occur in one in five children.

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The milk crust, which because it is called dairy, many people associate with the baby drinking breast milk, without such a relationship, is a set of crusts of whitish color, sometimes yellow, which appears on the scalp of babies. It is not a disease, but rather an aesthetic problem whose treatment is therefore optional.

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Due to the measles epidemic that continues to grow, public health institutions have begun to take action and call to curb the misinformation generated by the anti-vaccine movement, which has been listed as one of the 10 threats to global health in 2019. Some of the social networks and the Internet have joined the requests to help stop and combat it, removing false information from their platforms and without scientific evidence.

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The dream of the children is one of the topics that most interest parents and also, one of the ones that can worry the most. When they are babies, for example, we wonder at what time they will be able to sleep all night. And while an age comes when they finally do it (or at least they won't get up as often), there are certain sleep problems that can occur.

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A team of specialists from the Child Orthopedics Unit of the Virgen del Rocío University Hospital, in Seville has achieved that a 13-year-old boy, who suffered a serious bone problem in the hip that prevented him from walking, has returned to walk. The child had already been operated in another center on several occasions, but the surgical interventions had failed to alleviate the consequences of the growth disease of the hip he suffered.

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In Babies and more we have talked on several occasions about how dangerous it can be to drink alcohol during pregnancy, as it can cause a group of conditions called fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, among which the most serious is fetal alcohol syndrome. Alcohol consumption during pregnancy can affect the baby in different ways, with medical, behavioral, educational and social problems depending on the severity of the disorder.

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On several occasions we have talked about autism, a neurological disorder that is part of the group of disorders called autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and that affects the ability to communicate and interact with other people. Typically, this disorder is detected between two and three years, but according to a recent study, a new technique could identify certain symptoms of autism in babies before their first birthday.

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Allergy to nuts is one of the most common food allergies in childhood, being especially common in children from three or four years of age. The associated symptoms can be very severe, hence the importance of recognizing them immediately for an early diagnosis, as this type of allergy is one of the most common causes of food anaphylaxis.

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