BALTIMORE -- Extreme temperatures can become a real health threat, especially for older people, children, and pets. Dr. Ihuoma Emenuga, the Baltimore City Commissioner of Health, extended the Code Red Extreme Heat Alert through Monday, July 8. "It's sticky, it's hot ...
Invagination (intussusception) is a specific cause of intestinal occlusion, which, according to its frequency, occupies high position in pediatrics' abdominal surgical pathology. It is registered in children from 6 to 9 months of age, being more common in boys than in girls (3:2) with the ...
The UKHSA revealed the uptake for the first dose of the MMR vaccine in children aged two in England is 89% and for two MMR doses in children aged five, the rate is 85%. This is well below the 95% target set by the WHO. The UKHSA has warned more outbreaks in other places are l...
High-grade.A body temperature that falls between 102.4 and 105.8 F is a high-grade fever. Sometimes, you can have a high fever from only a cold or other viral infection. Hyperthermia.This is a fever over 105.8 F. It happens when your body temperature jumps so high because your body’s ...
Parents often report behavioral problems in children with symptoms of sleep disordered breathing (oSDB), such as snoring. Here, the authors show that lower brain volumes within the frontal lobe are associated with parent-reported problem behaviors in children with parent-reported symptoms of oSDB. ...
Get the facts on severe fever treatment (in children and adults) and symptoms. Learn about causes of fever, home remedies to bring down a high fever, ways to prevent fever, and find out when to call a doctor.
The questionnaire was divided 3 parts: in the first one general questions and some problem in connection with high-temperature, in the second one about symptoms, and in the third group pains were mentioned located in organs and different body-parts of children. The majority of parents accepted ...
anxious symptoms differed from the high reactives without anxious symptoms with respect to fearful behavior in the second year and, at age 7 years, higher diastolic blood pressure, a narrower facial skeleton, and greater magnitude of cooling of the temperature of the fingertips to cognitive ...
"However, in cases of extreme heat and high humidity, the body heats up faster than it can sufficiently sweat in order to maintain a temperature in the normal range," she said. Heat exhaustion is the result of an excessive loss of water and/or salt, usually as a result of excessive swe...
earache or ringing in ears), loss of smell or taste, mood (worry or anxiety; low mood or not enjoying anything), musculoskeletal (strong aches or pains in joints or muscles), pulmonary (cough; feeling short of breath), systemic (fever or high temperature; chills or shivers; weakness or ...