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An 18-month-old baby suddenly starts screaming one afternoon in the pool, and begins exhibiting extremely painful symptoms when exposed to sunlight, with porphyria later found to be the culprit. A mother of two children begins to suffer a series of very debilitating headaches.
An 11-month-old boy experiences wheezing and vomiting after swallowing a button battery; a landscaper becomes infected with Paragonimus kellicotti whilst eating an undercooked crawfish at the Missouri river; a female boxer gets a severe headache, a 105 fever, and impaired vision from cat scratch fever caused by Bartonella henselae when she was ...
Breastfeeding difficulties refers to problems that arise from breastfeeding, the feeding of an infant or young child with milk from a woman's breasts.Although babies have a sucking reflex that enables them to suck and swallow milk, and human breast milk is usually the best source of nourishment for human infants, [1] there are circumstances under which breastfeeding can be problematic, or even ...
Breast, bottle, whatever: How You Feed is a shame-free series on how babies eat. Ten years ago, Time magazine's cover featured mom Jamie Lynne Grumet with her 4-year-old son nursing while standing ...
Galactorrhea (also spelled galactorrhoea) (galacto-+ -rrhea) or lactorrhea (lacto-+ -rrhea) is the spontaneous flow of milk from the breast, unassociated with childbirth or nursing. Galactorrhea is reported to occur in 5–32% of females. Much of the difference in reported incidence can be attributed to different definitions of galactorrhea. [1]
Breast right after surgical intervention for breast abscess. A breast abscess is a collection of pus that develops in the breast with various causes. [13] During lactation, breast abscess develops only rarely, most sources cite about 0.4–0.5% of breastfeeding women. [7] Known risk factors are age over 30, primiparous (first birth) and late ...
Abdominal pain, vomiting, bloody stool [1] Complications: Peritonitis, bowel perforation [1] Usual onset: Over days to weeks in a 6- to 18-month-old [1] Causes: Unknown, lead point [1] Diagnostic method: Medical imaging [1] Differential diagnosis: Pyloric stenosis [1] Treatment: Enema, surgery [1] Medication: Dexamethasone [2]
Equally common in bottle and breast-fed infants, it begins during the second week of life, peaks at 6 weeks, and resolves between 12 and 16 weeks. [6] It rarely lasts up to one year of age. [7] It occurs at the same rate in boys and in girls. [1] The first detailed medical description of the problem was published in 1954. [8]