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J V de Monléon

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PubMed2002

[Breastfeeding and culture].

Pediatricians consider that breast-feeding is the most appropriate means of nourishing infants. However, in cultural terms, lactation far outweighs this purely dietary function. The act of breast-feeding is very often regarded as being of prime importance and is accordingly strictly controlled. In human societies the choice, duration, and mode of lactation, are governed by various prohibitions or beliefs. Infant feeding habits are transformed by major social changes, such as women working outside the home, female emancipation or the emergence of a consumer society, although this is not always noticed by physicians and health systems. Rather than being organic in origin, most cases of inadequate milk production are due to social causes. Hence, when promoting breast feeding, in addition to argue on the basis of scientific knowledge, physicians must take into account the changes in the social context.

Breast Feeding↗
PubMed2001

[Bullous cutaneous mastocytosis revealed by acute disease secondary to morphine administration].

UNLABELLED: Mastocytosis in children shows in three clinical forms. The rarest is the diffuse or bullous form. CASE REPORT: Since one month of age an infant showed a diffuse erythema and vesicle rash. At four months of age, serious discomfort after morphinic absorption led to the diagnosis of bullous cutaneous mastocytosis. Histologic examination confirmed this diagnosis. The clinical severity led to intravenous corticosteroid and antihistamine therapy. COMMENTS: Bullous cutaneous mastocytosis is unusual in children. However, it should be considered if there are any doubts because of its serious complications and iatrogenic therapeutic risks. Some serious cases require intravenous corticosteroid therapy. Appropriate care enables a normal development with a disappearance of the disease before the teenage years.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed2000

[Who are my parents? Filial adoption and the function of time and place].

Despite a substantial development for several years, adoption frequently remains seen as an unnatural phenomenon which cannot replace a biological relationship. In all periods and everywhere in the world children have been and are being resettled, and history and anthropological studies show that there exist as many modes of adoption as societies. In some societies, such as in Polynesia, no differences exist between biological and adoptive parenthood. The most important thing is to allow every child to have a family, biological or not. The adopted child must be told about her/his adoption as early as possible in a natural manner. Concealing the truth may lead to a profound psychological wound when later learned by the child.

Adoption↗
PubMed1999

[Precocious puberty secondary to an intramedullary germinoma].

BACKGROUND: hCG secreting tumors are responsible for 21% of precocious puberties in boys. Usual localizations are hepatic, cerebral, mediastinal and gonadic. CASE REPORT: A 4-year-old boy developed precocious puberty with rapid evolution. Serum beta hCG suggested germinal etiology, but radiological procedures failed to find any usual localization. Further occurrence of pain in the legs led to carry out a lumbar puncture. The high cerebrospinal fluid/blood gradient of beta hCG suggested the presence of an intramedullar tumor. Medullar magnetic resonance imaging found a large tumor facing L1 and L2. CONCLUSION: To our knowledge, this localization is described for only the second time.

Cerebrospinal Fluid↗