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Each day, hour, minute, and second, your heart is beating to a regular rhythm that provides life-giving oxygen, blood, and nutrients to your body. If something occurs to disrupt the normal heart rhythm, the effects can be fatal. A sudden arrhythmia...
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Ectodermal dysplasias are a rare group of genetic disorders used to describe a group of conditions involving the skin, teeth, hair, nails, and sweat/mucous glands. Multiple syndromes can be associated with ectodermal dysplasias, ranging from mild...
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Food allergies are quite common: one in 13 children under the age of 18 has at least one food allergy. However, a small subset of infants and children will have a different type of allergy that affects the gastrointestinal tract and can be severe...
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Similar to lice, pinworms are parasites that spread through the transfer of eggs. A typical pinworm infection is characterized by the presence of small, white roundworms approximately the size of a staple found near the child’s anus. The most...
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Brown Syndrome is a rare and painless condition of the eyes that can affect both children and adults. Patients with Brown syndrome are unable to fully move one of their eyes, causing the affected eye to be stuck in the upward position. Brown...
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Landau-Kleffner syndrome (LKS) is a seizure disorder that is classified as a form of epilepsy. About 25-30 percent of children who have LKS do not experience overt or obvious seizure symptoms, according to the American Speech-Language-Hearing...
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Turner syndrome (TS) is a chromosomal condition that affects 1 in 2,500 newborn females. About half are diagnosed by a pediatrician within the first few months of life because of characteristic physical features. The other half are usually...
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Parenting
Morning sickness, cramps, back pain, hunger pangs, weight gain—all normal symptoms when you’re pregnant. But what if your husband or male partner is suffering those same signs right along with you? This is called Couvade Syndrome, which comes from...
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During a typical conception, a sperm carrying either an X or Y chromosome fertilizes an egg, which already has an X chromosome. An XY pairing is a boy; an XX chromosome pairing is a girl. Abnormalities in the genes on these or other chromosomes can...
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Parents face many ethical dilemmas, but one of the most difficult (and controversial) can be when parents have an intersex child: a child who has a disorder of sexual development (DSD). Collectively, there are more than 60 conditions that can cause...
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Klinefelter syndrome is a chromosomal condition that affects 1 in 500 to 1,000 newborn males. People typically have two sex chromosomes in each cell: females have two X chromosomes (XX), while males have one X chromosome and one Y chromosome (XY)....
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Baby
Of all the congenital deformities affecting infants, abnormalities of the fingers and toes are among the most common. Congenital abnormalities of the fingers account for approximately 10% of all deformities. These are due to malformations that...
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The kidneys are a pair of small abdominal organs that are responsible for filtering waste from the blood and eliminating it through the urine. Most children are born with two kidneys, but sometimes a child is either born with a single kidney,...
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Along with the liver, the kidneys are part of the body’s filtration system. They filter blood for excess minerals and wastes and then eliminate waste material via the urine. Wilms tumor, or nephroblastoma, is a childhood cancer that affects one or...
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Shaken baby syndrome is a form of child abuse that causes serious brain injury resulting from violent shaking. Brain cells are destroyed, and the brain may be deprived of oxygen. A child with shaken baby syndrome may suffer permanent brain damage...
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Keratosis pilaris (often dubbed “KP”) is a common and usually mild skin condition in which the skin can resemble dried, plucked chicken flesh. These tiny “bumps” are often mistaken for small pimples and are painless. Affected skin has a...
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Pregnancy
At some point, many pregnant parents-to-be will hear about the potential benefits of banking cord blood. This service is offered through public cord blood banks, where parents can donate cord blood anonymously for general use, or they can bank...
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Of all the congenital deformities affecting infants, abnormalities of the fingers and toes are among the most common. Two of the most common deformities include extra digits (polydactyly) and webbed digits (syndactyly). Extra fingers and toes occur...