Asthma affects people of all ages, but it most often starts during childhood. Young children who often wheeze and have respiratory infections—as well as certain other risk factors—are at highest risk of developing asthma that continues beyond 6 years of age. The other risk factors include having allergies, eczema (an allergic skin condition), or parents who have asthma. Among children, more boys have asthma than girls. But among adults, more women have the disease than men.
Also the percentage of children with an ADHD diagnosis that are being placed on medication jumped from 55% in 1989 to 75% in 1996 (Gibbs 1998). Now that I have illustrated some of the statistics behind our country’s ADD/ADHD children, perhaps I should talk a little more about what exactly an ADD/ADHD child is. ADHD does not have physical signs that can be recognized in the patient. Most diagnoses are made through observation and over a period of time. The most common behaviors fall into the three following categories: inattention, hyperactivity, and
Most babies born with Down syndrome are diagnosed after birth and will be likely to have hypotonia which is reduced muscle tone leading to floppiness, eyes that slant upwards and outwards, palmar crease which is when their palm may have only one crease across it, a below average weight and length at birth. Down syndrome is one of
Common sites of RMS include head and neck region accounting 35-40% of cases that invade of near structure that grown rapidly, and it is more common in teen . Urinary and reproductive organs or any of the female organs rarely occur in vaginal female during infancy (3-MFBorg2010). There are 2 main types of RMS, along with some less common types. Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma (ERMS) usually affects children in their first 5 years of life, but it is the most common type of RMS at all ages. The cells of ERMS look like the developing muscle cells of a 7-week-old embryo.
Hunters Syndrome Michele Frizzell HCS/245 June 16, 2014 Erich Widemark Hunter Syndrome Most infants at one point or another get an ear infection, runny nose or a cold. As a parent, what would you do if your child had symptoms such as these? What diagnosis would a pediatrician give? The commonality of these symptoms in infants is high; therefore, Hunter Syndrome, or Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS II) would be the least likely diagnosis. The purpose of this paper is to educate individuals about Hunter Syndrome (MPS II).
About 1,000 new cases of cystic fibrosis are diagnosed each year, with more than 70% of the patients diagnosed by age two (AboutCF). It is a very rare but serious genetic condition that can affect any child. It is mostly the Caucasian population that has this. If you are diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, your life expectancy
Poor memory 4. Poor fine motor skills • Students with ADHD are two to three times more likely to have problems with expressive language than their non-ADD peers. • 75% of boys with ADD are hyperactive; 60% of girls with ADD are hyperactive. • 40% of children who have ADHD have at least one parent who has ADHD • 50% of children who have ADHD also have sleep problems. • Parents of a child who has ADHD are three times as likely to separate or divorce as parents of non-ADD children • Teenagers with ADHD have almost four times as many traffic citations as their non-ADD peers.
The prevalence of this disease is 1/10,000 to 1/15,000 girls worldwide, making it one of the most common genetic causes of severe mental retardation in girls. Rett syndrome is characterized by normal development for the first 6 to 18 months of age, followed by a period of regression in which the girls lose language and motor skills. Purposeful hand use is replaced by repetitive stereotyped hand movements. Decelerating head growth and autistic features such as diminished eye contact and emotional withdrawal also occur. Additional characteristics include anxiety, respiratory dysfunctions, and impairment of sleeping patterns, cardiac abnormalities, seizures, loss of locomotion and bone density deficits.
Well there are many people in the world that lack one or more of their senses such as being deaf. Deafness is the inability to hear properly or to hear at all and affects every 2 to 4 of every 1,000 people according to the Gallaudet Research Center. Deafness is usually classified as either sensorineural or conductive depending on the cause. Hearing loss can be caused by various reasons such as; heredity, aging, trauma, excessive exposure to loud noise, and diseases caused by ear infections. Sensorineural hearing loss is usually
Is there an Autism epidemic? Problem Autism is a pervasive developmental disorder that affects social and communication skills and in some cases, to a lesser degree, motor and language skills. (6) Autism was first diagnosed in the 1940’s and was described as a very rare disorder with cases being as few as one in every 10 000 children (1). By the1990’s diagnoses began to soar (as shown in graph below) and diagnosis had risen to one in every 500 children. In the 1990’s it was speculated that the increase was due to certain chemicals in vaccinations such as the MMR.