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Hand Foot and Mouth Disease - Coxsackie

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Virus Infections   Today, a friend was concerned about this disease, her baby went to the doctor and found this diagnosis. Coxsackievirus is a virus, that belongs to a family of nonenveloped, linear, positive-sense ssRNA viruses; Picornaviridae and the genus Enterovirus, which also includes poliovirus and echovirus. Enteroviruses are among the most common and important human pathogens, and ordinarily, their members are transmitted by the fecal-oral route. Coxsackieviruses share many characteristics with poliovirus. With the control of poliovirus infections in much of the world, more attention has been focused on understanding the nonpolio enteroviruses such as coxsackievirus. Coxsackieviruses are among the leading causes of aseptic meningitis (the other usual suspects being echovirus and mumps virus) Coxsackieviruses are divided into group A and group B viruses. The most well-known  Coxsackie A disease is Hand, foot, and mouth disease (unrelated to hoof and mouth dise

Child Care Centers & Multiculturalism Activities

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Where Child Care Offers Activities and Experience in Multiculturalism What are the things you are doing to put about it first, to make it clear that all people can and should be represented in children's services? It is important to think about what we understand by "culture" because it is the main part of "multiculturalism." Multiculturalism means that there are many different types of cultures in our society. A very broad definition of culture is that it refers to the things we do to exchange our identities; It is a process, a lived experience, and continuous practice. The culture is created by individuals and groups and is transmitted in some form from generation to generation. A multicultural society is one in which a variety of different cultural groups coexist harmoniously free, to maintain their distinctive religious, linguistic, or social customs, equal as individuals in their access to: Appropriate resources and services for them and their nee

Toddlers Organize their Own Twilight

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Toddlers, Have their Own Innate Nature to Adapt to Sleep? During this period of Toddler, the physical activity gradually recedes, also the physical and intellectual is a gradual approach to quiet privacy. It is advisable, at the same time to be favoring permanency for the child in the bedroom, reducing the intensity of environmental stimuli such as lights and noise. We must be preparing the entire atmosphere  Children regularly in their biological rhythms, especially  toddlers have an innate disposition to organize their own twilight, accept all the rules on hours of sleep and sleep calm and confident.  But there are others who just take advantage of the darkness to go to sleep . the lights and the TV. By doing this, babies make endless trips in search of parents and another set of obstacles that deprive them of sleep. They never fall asleep at the time. Within all this ritual of sleep, a favorite pillow, pieces of blanket, a diaper, a doll, stuffed animals all help chil

Causes and Factors Infants do not Sleep Well

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I found in my experience working as a nurse in the area of pediatrician also for many years in Child Care Centers which gave me the opportunity to communicate with close parents,  who said have a problem at bedtime of their infants that do not sleep enough. There are infants who fall asleep easily and others, however, are particularly difficult to sleep, with all attempts to achieve no success. Is that there are no magic formulas and why parents should be patient and wait until this problem goes away, but always offering their children the necessary tranquility so that they can fall asleep, little by little avoiding all kinds of disturbances. Establishing a bedtime ritual, which involves respecting meal times also bath is a great prediction to achieve the goal that the child settles go to sleep, but always keep in mind that the temperamental factor affects every individual. Some need more get time to sleep than others taking shortly simply. Nighttime sleep is preceded b

Life In Different Cultures

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Infants and Toddlers Life in Different Cultures I n my opinion of all cultures of the countries of South America and North America, Infants and Toddlers are different. Raising children to this stage in both areas of the continent has the importance of "Growth and Development of Child and Adolescent” which this population will be very determinant to have a healthy nation. I want to talk over biological and physiological factors naturally without attribution to the exogenous social aspects such as economic and political influence are also involved to a healthy population that is due to three orders of reasons: 1) Reason it depends on the child's normal development 2) Reasons depending on their psychological health and biological living environment 3) Reasons that depend on the school and the learning conditions and pedagogy from the schools But I would like to detail the differences in the upbringing of these children by their mothers, how they nurturin

Children's Rights in all Cultures

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Children's Rights in all Cultures Every day you see or hear in the world the abuses against children in all cultures . One day forget what we were and what we wanted or did not have that lack of respect and consideration, just for the reasons for lack of a modern evolution? Since the enactment of the 1989 Convention has been adapting domestic legislation to the principles enshrined in the Declaration. Although legislation and the legal system of each country are usually different, almost all the countries have been devoting special measures for their protection, the legislative and even constitutional rights. Among the Rights of the Child are: 1. Children have the right to life. 2. Children have the right to play. 3. Children have the right to freedom and to share their views with others. 4. Children have the right to make known their views and express their ideas. 5. Children have the right to a family. 6. Children are entitled to protection during arm

Consumption of Soft Drinks

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What Researchers Found About Soda and Juices? Expert’s surveyed students asked them how many sweetened soft drinks were made by day, and then subjected them to a standard questionnaire used to assess mental health. Young people reported no breakfast or lunch was located between the main consumers of industrial juices and soda, revealed the team led by Dr. Lars Lien of the University of Oslo. "There was a strong association between the consumption of soft drinks and problems of mental health in the tenth-grade boys", wrote the report published in American Journal of   Public Health   researchers. Those young people not taking soft drinks were more prone to moderate consumers to have symptoms of mental health, said, experts. However, those who drank the softest drinks - more than six weeks - had the highest records of these disadvantages in the diets of adolescents.  Many young people were consuming too many sugary drinks. "A simple and effective to reduce