The dermatology service has conducted a workshop with atopic dermatitis patients.

The Southeast Hospital has conducted a workshop to teach children from 3-8 years of atopic skin care and how to cope with this enfemedad in their daily lives.

The workshop, which involved patients of the Dermatology Service, aims to involve children, through games with characters and interactive exercises to achieve a proper hygiene and hydration of the skin.

In addition, Southeast Hospital professionals have been transmitted to the participants how to deal with the itching and scratching alternatives to the skin (cold application, hydration, etc.).. This activity has the support of Avène Laboratories.

Atopic dermatitis is a disease that involves a reaction of the skin condition characterized by itchy rashes and scaly-looking, more common in children, multifactorial, which involves both environmental and constitutional factors.

With this type of initiatives Southeast Hospital aims to provide practical advice to facilitate skin care for children, so become aware of the importance of good practices through activities and games.

The health center was launched last summer a Pediatric Dermatology, with the objective of serving the dermatological disease of children in their reference population and avoid transfer to other public hospitals in the community with this feature.

Since its opening until May 31, 2011, the Pediatric Dermatology has served 374 children.

It is important that parents follow a regimen of skin care for their children to protect them from environmental damage and sun, and to ensure the skin is properly clean and moisturized .

Some tips to keep in mind about skin care for children are:
Sun Care: Apply sunscreen daily to all children who are 6 or more months. Keep children under 6 months out of the sun.
Apply insect repellent to all children 6 months of age or older. In areas with many mosquitoes cover them most of the body with clothes.

At bath time, use fragrance-free products and are hypoallergenic. Soaps, shampoos and products moisturizers for use after the bath should be special for the children’s skin. You should avoid rubbing the skin with towels or sponges.
You should dress children in clothing that is cotton and is not adjusted, without frills or labels that can cause irritation.

You should avoid putting cotton in the nostrils or the ear canal and limit the auricle.
Do not use fabric softeners or bleach to wash clothes. Wash clothing thoroughly with water after washing.

is ear is a very important organ but also very fragile and therefore must be treated with special care. The hygiene of the baby is very delicate, especially in the area, where there is a need for deep cleaning.

It is normal for the baby’s ears with wax rich. Although some parents may surprise you, it is necessary to protect the middle and inner ear of external infections. The wax should have a yellow, sticky, if not, may indicate that the baby has an infection or disease.

We often use the nails to clean the ear, which can be dangerous to hearing health. Other equally familiar tools such as sticks, can be the cause of formation of plugs or ear drum perforations. However, as the Second Study of Habits of Hygiene Audimer Ear, 93% of Spanish still using swabs ear hygiene and 69% are satisfied with the use of them. Paradoxically, 74% believe that the rods may contribute to the onset of ear problems.

How to prevent ear infections?

If you keep your baby’s ears clean and well maintained, will increase the chances of avoiding infection, very common in children small.

- To keep your ears clean, simply pass the peak of a towel or gauze moistened by the pinna, without rubbing and without forgetting the part of the creases behind the ears.

- The area of the inner ear is not rods should be cleaned or must be introduced into the ear canal under any circumstances, because they can cause damage to the area and / or cause inflammation.

- ear wax is coming out by itself, should not try to take off with anything.

- Clean your mucus instilling saline or salt water and sucking it without much pressure.

- Prevents give drafts, dry surface thoroughly bathe your ears after abrígale and ears when you go for a walk in winter.

- If you check the handyman to the ears and cries a lot, you may experience an infection or inflammation.

- You can use a diffuser cleaning seawater allowing both external and internal ear gently and safely. It is recommended seawater with therapeutic properties 2 or 3 times a week. Continued use of these diffusers prevent hearing problems such as earwax, and maintain healthy ears.

- Avoid loud noises or music television too high, your hearing is more acute and sensitive than older people and could harm you.

- It is not keeping the baby’s ears under water, but nothing happens either because they are between a splash or little.

However, we note that an excessive exposure of children to the sun, can have negative effects on the skin and dangerous in the short or long term.

Children need adequate time to sunbathe and the necessary protection if too much sun can suffer burns on their skin and various diseases such as dermatitis, photosensitivity, skin aging, immune disorders, cataracts and cancer.

It is therefore very important to prevent, adequate time sunbathing habits and teach them to adapt it to your daily routine.

Eye, head and body must be protected with hats and sunscreen factor 15 on. This should be applied half an hour before sun exposure and re-used every 2 hours or after swimming in the sea.

It is important that children not drink before noon sun, as this greatly increases the risk of contracting sunburn or skin diseases. Finally, one should not in any way exposed to children under six months to UV rays.

Why is proper nutrition important?
Poor nutrition can cause health problems, overweight and obesity. Some of the health problems associated with poor nutrition can be serious and can even cause death, especially when your child grows and enters adolescence and then adulthood. By helping your child learn healthy eating habits can help prevent these health problems.

Avoid weight problems now has many benefits for your child. First, it is much easier to maintain a healthy weight to lose weight. And children who maintain a healthy weight during childhood are more likely to maintain a healthy weight as adults.

I can really make a difference?
Yes! Choose healthy foods and being physically active is not something that comes naturally to everyone. But as yet these healthy choices can be learned and become a habit. As a parent or caregiver of a child, you are a role model and has the potential to influence the child’s environment. Even small changes in eating and exercise habits of the family can have a great influence on the health of your child.

2. Take fruits and vegetables
Fruits and vegetables contain nutrients that help you prevent disease, so do not forget to include in your diet every day. These foods can be an ideal complement in each of the five foods that you do during the day (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack and dinner).

3. The hygiene is essential to your health
not touch food without have washed your hands first. Brush your teeth at least twice a day and remember that night after brushing, and one should not eat or drink other than water.

4. Drink enough fluids
is essential to keep the body well hydrated, since more than half the weight is water. Make sure, therefore, receive the necessary input of liquid (at least 5 glasses per day). If it is hot or intense physical activity, should increase fluid intake to prevent dehydration.

5. Do not try to change your eating habits and behavior overnight.
‘ll be much easier to do it little by little each day marcándote objectives. Does not ignore what you like, but try your diet as a whole is balanced.

6. Consume foods rich in carbohydrates
Most people eat fewer carbohydrates than they need. At least half of the calories in your diet should come from these nutrients. To increase the consumption of carbohydrates you eat bread, and in general, products made ​​of wheat and other grains such as breakfast cereals, cookies …-, pasta, rice, potatoes and vegetables.

7. Maintain a healthy weight for your age
avoids much more or even less than they should. To find your correct weight should take into account many constraints: age, sex, height, build, hereditary factors …. Overweight occurs when your body takes in more calories than you expend. Fat provides some of the nutrients that our bodies need, but also the most concentrated source of calories. Therefore, if some of your meals is especially fat intake alternala with lighter.

8. Eat regularly
Our energy body needs to have every moment of it so that vehicles need fuel to move. When we got up, after spending all night without eating, your energy level is very low so that should make a good breakfast. During the day, if you only eat at the lunch and dinner, your body will also too many hours without energy input. Seize the mid-morning break to eat something and do not forget the afternoon snack.

Exercise 9
A bicycle that is not used just rusting away. With the muscles and bones is the same, must be kept active to work well. Try to do some exercise every day. Climb the stairs instead of the elevator and if you can, go walking to school. The recess is a good time to practice physical activity (play soccer, jump rope …). Each one of us to try and practice the sport that fits our taste.

10. Remember there are no good foods or bad
Do not feel guilty about eating certain foods. Of course, avoiding the excesses and make sure your diet is sufficiently varied to be balanced. Balance and variety are the keys to your diet will help maintain good health.

Editorial Team Vital Point
It is not easy to change the diet of the overnight. This is a long process certainly involves significant changes in the daily routine of children and adults.

But what do we mean by healthy eating? Basically corresponds to the balanced intake of foods that provide essential nutrients (minerals, vitamins and proteins) to the proper functioning and healthy condition of the body. Such is the case of vegetables, fruits, dairy products, lean meats, whole grains and vegetable oils.

Unfortunately, the eating patterns of children show an increasing consumption of other foods, those that carry empty calories or do not contribute to the health of the body and generally correspond to candy, cookies, candy, sugary drinks, invoices, and some fast food. Such foods should be eaten only occasionally, always favoring a healthier food system.

Guide to a healthy infant
According to the Guidelines for Healthy Living 2005, prepared by the Ministry of Health in our country, recommends the following general guidelines for feeding children.

Milk (dairy) is important for the growth of the child, it is recommended to consume 3 times daily.
Formula recommended 5 a day, this is at least 2 servings of vegetables and 3 fruit daily.
Respect the established meal times (avoiding the “pecking”).
Give the child a good breakfast with milk, bread and fruit as possible, thus promoting health and school performance.
Prefer snacks with milk, yogurt or fruit.

The development to wash their hands before eating and after eating teeth.
Fish and vegetables are healthy foods that should be consumed at least 2 times a week.

For example, pretend that only girls play with dolls , and games involving less dirty single women are unique to small, is to fall into an error which denies any form of femininity.

It is true that girls are naturally more delicate in their action , but it is always possible to find a balance, without preventing them live different experiences. At the other end by the way, there are the parents looking for children to form “strong”, creating in them an unreal strength , which in future will be shown in their inability to express their emotions.

The idea of finding significant differences between the sexes, should not lead to great lengths to pretend that all girls and boys focus their desires to the same activities, or personal characteristics are similar in all cases. Parents play an important role in the formation of their children, are a model to follow in terms of taste or behavior, but as the years pass, each child (a) mark his own personality.

Cancer vaccines
The research has been published already in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. The vaccine, which has been developed from a family of virus-poxvirus compounds has the function of DNA and molecules to create antigens that stimulate the immune response in cancer cells. That is, ending with these tumor cells. Furthermore, the only side effect is that the patient has the same symptoms or similar to the flu.

At the moment, although conclusive results are yet to know if the vaccine is effective in this difficult disease, it does indeed have obtained positive results in the U.S.. In a group of 26 patients with ovarian cancer, all in an advanced stage of disease was achieved several months of survival.

The first thing I have to say is that they are all they are, but at least we have gathered the most common and necessary.

Second, existing vaccines can vary from one society to another or from one period to another, and how to classify.
But in general, these show you are the most common vaccines :

- MMR . This vaccine is recommended to treat measles , the rubella or mumps.
- Hepatitis B . It is indicated for groups at risk for sexual contact , relatives of carriers, immunocompromised or for those traveling to exotic countries.

- Varicella. To address this contagious disease vaccine exists. Currently, children just suffer through such varicella vaccine.
- Whooping cough. This is a completely inactive bacilli vaccine, administered intramuscularly and is composed of three doses.
- Flu. There is a vaccine against acute epidemic disease.
- Tetanus. This vaccine is a booster every 10 years. It is also contraindicated in the first trimester of pregnancy.
- Diphtheria . Contraindicated during pregnancy, also has memory phase after 10 years.
- Polio . Today, there are two types of vaccines, whose initials are OPV and IPV (whose initials are very specific language that is beyond the scope of this article).
- Hepatitis A . It is indicated for healthcare workers, drug addicts, family connections, food handler, sexual promiscuity, hemophiliacs, liver disease and closed institutions.
- Pneumococcus . This is the pathogen of some pneumonia.
- Meningococcal . It is the causative organism of certain types of meningitis.

Again, these are not all vaccines are currently only cited the most common and common today.