Children's Health
Rickets is a disease of caused by the deficient calcification of the bones in children leading to softening and weakening of the bones mainly due to the deficiency of vitamin D.
School absence for children with infective diseases
Children with certain infectious diseases are usually advised to stay away from school both for the benefit of the child as well as to ensure that the infection is not transmitted from one child to the other.
During the first few weeks of life, a baby's skin can exhibit a variety of rashes. Most of these are harmless and transient.
This is a diagnostic skin test for demonstration of the presence of hypersensitivity to tuberculosis, where a small amount of the tuberculin is injected under the arm skin and the reaction is interpreted
Teen-time is a mixed bag, there are hundreds of new aspects of life and living which are to be discovered in this period. Teens are often energetic, thoughtful, and idealistic, with a deep interest in what's fair and right. It is a phase when physical and psychological modulations are underway at a very rapid pace. The biggest advantage of this phase is that at this time one can modulate the mind and body as one wants, because the growth is still on; but it also means that any errors or neglect can lead to a permanent damage.
Protein energy malnutrition (PEM) is a type of disease caused due to decreased intake of food and deficient protein in the food most commonly seen in children and to the debilitated and uncared.
Kallmann syndrome rare inherited condition characterized by hypogonadism (decreased functioning of the glands that produce sex hormones), eunuchoidism and impaired or absent sense of smell.
Adrenal Hyperplasia Congenital (General)
The term congenital adrenal hyperplasia encompasses a group of autosomal recessive disorders, each of which involves a deficiency of an enzyme involved in the synthesis of cortisol, aldosterone, or both and androgens (testosterone). Congenital adrenal hyperplasia is a family of genetic conditions affecting the adrenal glands. It can interfere with normal growth and development in children ? including normal development of the genitals.
Acrodermatitis enteropathica (AE) is an autosomal recessive disorder, metabolic disorder affecting the uptake of zinc, characterized by periorificial (around the natural orifices) and acral (in the limbs) dermatitis, alopecia (loss of hair), and diarrhea.
Acid ceramidase deficiency is a extremely rare autosomal recessive lysosomal storage disease that cause an accumulation of fatty material lipids leading to abnormalities in the joints, liver, throat, tissues and central nervous system.
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