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Otitis media
Also known as middle ear infection, this disease attacks especially the little boys in two critical moments: between 6 and 36 months and between 4 and 6 years. In mild forms, may manifest as pain, fever, hearing loss, temporary and purulent discharge, but if it gets complicated to cause permanent hearing loss. The most vulnerable are children under 1 year, because they tend to fall every time you get sick of the airways.

Hemophilia and color blindness
The lack of a necessary factor for coagulation (hemophilia) and the inability to distinguish certain colors (color blindness) are hereditary disorders occur only in young males, with all the girls can be carriers of both diseases.

Attention deficit disorder with hyperactivity
This disorder, characterized by impulsivity and low ability to concentrate, among other signs, is diagnosed in about 4 times more in boys than in girls. Proper treatment achieved many children can not only perform satisfactorily in school, but even be discharged in adolescence.

Enuresis
In this way doctors relate to children’s inability to control the bladder, especially during sleep and while, at a certain age, such control and should be common. While girls stop getting pee from 2 and a half years, many children still wet the bed even after their fourth or fifth birthday.

Pyloric stenosis
With this problem, the tube from the stomach into the small intestine is narrower than normal, which causes the food to stagnate there and end up being vomited violently. Not know its causes and why is more common in boys than in girls, but a simple operation solves the problem completely.

Hernias
Up to 90 of inguinal hernias occur in males. The problem tends to be associated with incomplete descent of testicles and is manifested by a bulge, which is often noted at birth, either in one or both sides of the groin, and sometimes pain in the area, restlessness and difficulty to defecate. Corrected with an operation, experts say, is well tolerated even by infants a few months.

Syndrome, sudden infant death
At least in the U.S. is estimated that 5,000 babies die each year, suddenly in their sleep. The cause of this phenomenon remains uncertain, but the figures still point to male babies as the most affected. The good news is that as parents have taken some simple steps like keeping little ones to sleep upside down, smoking near them and sobreabrigarlos in the cradle, the incidence of this drama has declined significantly.

Asthma
Children are more likely to have asthma, chronic disease that eventually causes narrowing of small airways in the lungs, making breathing difficult. Every day there are new options to control the violent crisis hits including cough, and it is estimated that, following appropriate treatment, more than a third of the affected small can overcome the disease to become adults.

Autism
This disorder is also four times more common in boys than in girls. Causes the child is unable to relate to people and situations and show stiff resistance to the slightest change in routine. Almost always diagnosed before the third year, and may be caused by a brain abnormality caused by maternal illness during pregnancy such as rubella, a genetic factor or an illness suffered by the child himself.

Dyslexia
It affects one in seven men, a proportion three times higher than in the case
girls. Has nothing to do with intellectual ability, auditory, or visual, but it is a learning disorder that affects reading, spelling skills and written language, and may also hinder the management of numbers and signs in general, term memory and even the spoken language. According to experts, the best age to begin to treat it is at 4 or 5 years.

Amebiasis
This parasitic disease affects the large intestine. It is more common in boys, especially in intestinal forms, perhaps because, interestingly, they tend to tolerate more than girls dirt on their hands after playing in the garden or park.

Talipes
So you know a orthopedic impairment in one or both soles of the feet are facing down and inward, or upward and outward. For every child who is born with this problem two male infants at present. The treatment is usually physical, the doctor manipulates the foot immobilized periodically so that it will take its rightful position, but also, as the case may be surgical.

Discovered that a genetic mutation that causes cancer. The finding opens the way for new and better treatments

For a long time to identify the cells that cause leukemia, had been one of the great mysteries for cancer researchers.

Although it was known that the causal factor was primarily genetic, recently made an important discovery that has opened new hopes to the treatment of childhood leukemia, the most common type of cancer in children and adolescents.

Medical advances in the treatment of this disease, which until recently was considered fatal, have been enormous, to the point that today, we talk about a survival rate reaching 80% in cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia the most common type of leukemia in children.

Thanks to a joint study by scientists at the University of Oxford, Great Ormond Street children’s hospital in London and the Medical Research Association of Cancer Research, has taken an important step in the fight against childhood leukemia to discover “the origin” of this disease. The results of this research were recently published in the American journal Science. (more…)

Children suffering from a deadly lung disease were able to walk more and breathe more easily after taking the pill Viagra.

One study suggests that the use of medicine to treat those children suffering from pulmonary hypertension, needs more study. But expressed that the preliminary results were promising.

“I think it’s a breakthrough, but much more work is necessary for you to find a place in treatment, ” said study leader Dr. Ian Adatia, associate professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital of the University of California San Francisco.

The Food and Drug Administration FDA approved the use of the main ingredient in Viagra to treat adults with pulmonary hypertension.

The disease is characterized by continuous high blood pressure in the artery that carries blood from the heart to small vessels in the lungs. Bailing vessels leaving no room for blood to circulate. (more…)