Posts Tagged ‘immune system’
For his cold nose
Banal and Benin, colds, or nasopharyngitis, only requires a few extremely simple therapeutic measures. However, some people, especially children, are exposed to complications for which medical advice is needed.
Complication cold Unless you live as a hermit, it is difficult to escape the cold. A ride on the subway, a conversation, games between children are all royal roads open to viruses to change host. First filter for microbes, the nose is exposed to many and highly contagious virus, just waiting to move into the nasal mucosa and proliferate. Occur when the well-known symptoms of nasopharyngitis or common cold, that is to say, runny nose, stuffy nose and sneezing, with or without fever. Read the rest of this entry »
Food allergies in children
The digestive tract has a very rich local immune system in the mucosa, complete with a draining lymph node is very important. This system protects the body from viral antigens, bacterial and parasitic diseases by an effective immune response that seeks to eliminate them. The immune system must also recognize the dietary protein to accept their passage through the mucosa. A food actually contains many proteins. Many of them turn out to be allergens. A food can contain forty different allergens. Read the rest of this entry »
Nutrition in children and adolescents
1. Introduction
It is vital that children have proper nutrition and a healthy diet for your optimal development potential. During childhood and adolescence, dietary habits and exercise can make the difference between a healthy lifestyle and disease risk in later years. At different stages of life, you need different nutrients. Read the rest of this entry »
Allergies
Allergies are abnormal reactions of the immune system. Following exposure of children to foreign substances, in fact, the body can react with an awareness not through immunization. Substances “defendant” may be very different: from pollen to foods to medicines. Allergy, then, occurs whenever the child comes into contact with the sensitizing substance, or allergen, even in small quantities. A child may be more or less willing to develop allergies in general constitutional and hereditary factors play an important role in susceptibility to allergies. The allergen can enter the body by inhalation, digestion or by contact, resulting in some symptoms in children are mainly consisting of rhinitis, bronchial asthma, food intolerances, eczema. To help the child identify the allergen is good mainly so I could keep at a distance. Allergic reactions, then, are increasing and the expense are the children. An allergy to pollen, for example, affects not only more in the spring, but throughout the year and the period of maximum pollen spread – according to World Health Organization – in Europe has lengthened over the past 20 years, at least 10 days.