Goat milk is not always an alternative for cow’s milk allergy. For that occurring in goat’s milk proteins in sensitive people can cause the same symptoms as that of cow’s milk.

Babies that are fed with bottles of protein-rich foods during the first months of life, have a 30 percent higher risk in childhood and adolescence to become overweight than those breastfed children. One reason for the development of obesity, experts suggest, according to the presence aid in a high protein content of industrially produced baby milk.

Many hypertensive patients have a lack of specific blood fats, and can compensate for this with a special diet.

According to the physicians premature babies are at risk of infection especially by new flu. Parents, visitors, nurses and doctors should be disinfected prior to contact, therefore, always wash hands thoroughly. Also having a full waiting room with their parents to avoid direct contact with premature babies is the best way to prevent infection.

The number of serious heart defects in newborns has declined significantly in the Canadian province of Quebec. This is because, according to a study by the University of Montreal in 1998, introduced folic acid fortification in flour and noodles. Were analyzed for in the British Medical Journal study, published 1 324 440 newborns in the period from 1990 to 2005. Accordingly, the annual decline was in severe heart failure in the years of folic acid fortification, compared to six percent of the time before the vitamin B9 to pasta and …

More than half of children between six and 14 years in Germany (61%) after suffering a representative survey of school stress. 17% of parents surveyed reported that their child is even frequently stressed. Especially children nine to eleven years were affected. 67% of parents surveyed believe that sport can help their children.

HIV-infected children in developing countries receive less medical care than adults. The information comes from a joint report by UNICEF, the World Health Organization WHO and UNAIDS of the UN program out, which was published on Wednesday in Geneva.

The number of hearing impaired children and youths in some parts of world has increased dramatically. During the last year 580 when the insurance company DAK insured patients under 18 years prescribed a hearing aid. Almost one in four young people in some parts of world had become a non-curable hearing impairment. In the future, more and more children and young people are suffering from permanent hearing loss. Many young people do not know that a damaged hearing is curable.

Children who are conceived in our latitudes in winter and were born in autumn appear to have a greater risk to suffer from asthma than children who come to another season on the world. It was found in the results of a study involving over 95,000 children to have that were born between 1995 and 2000.

Whether asthma, allergies, fever, ear pain or nasal congestion, many complaints and illnesses worse at night. Parents do not have to worry if their child wakes up at night at two clock and feel worse than the day. Small actions can make parents and the child the night relax.