Repeated Narcosis in a Young Child

Infant and Young Child Feeding: a Key area to Improve Child Health

  Good nutrition is essential for survival, physical growth, mental development, performance, productivity, health and well-being across the entire life-span: from the earliest stages of fetal development, at birth, and through infancy, childhood, adolescence and on into adulthood. Poor nutrition in the first 1,000 days of children’s lives can have irreversible consequences. For millions of chi...

A Critical Review: Narcosis Therapy.

Carbon Dioxide, Narcosis,

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the gaseous end product of the aerobic metabolism of oxygen. CO2 is highly soluble in body tissues, and readily diffuses from cells to blood, where circulation transports it to the lungs for elimination. Divers often ignore carbon dioxide, as CO2 is a normal part of life. However, CO2 may have definite and detrimental effects if a diver accumulates an excessive amount of...

Subacute bacterial endocarditis in a young child.

Horder (1909) reviewed 150 cases of subacute bacterial endocarditis at all ages and found that congenital heart lesions were present in eight (5-3 ). In 250 similar cases reviewed by Kelson and White (1945) there were 13 (5-2%) congenital heart lesions, and in a further 88 cases seen between 1939 and 1944 White, Mathews and Evans (1945) recorded 12 (13%), whilst Seabury (1947) put the incidence...

Halothane hepatitis in a young child.

A 4-year-old girl developed severe hepatitis following the fourth administration of halothane in a period of 5 months. She was shown to have a circulating antibody which acted specifically against rabbit hepatocyte previously sensitized to halothane. The patient made a full recovery from the hepatitis, but 5 months later, developed diabetes mellitus.