my daughter is reading high ANCA levels and has to have a renal biopsy in a
few days.
can anyone tell me of the procedure and risks invlved.
please advise
        helen hamill

My 4 month-old son has what looks like an ingrown toenail on his big
toe.  It looks red, but doesn’t seem to hurt at all.  Any suggestions?
I seem to recall that soaking it in warm water with epsom salts can be
helpful.

Thanks,

Scott

Hello to everybody,
I’m a first time poster and I really need your help with this one.
Here is the case history :
My son (13mo.) started with high fever (39-40)degress C for 3 days. Ped.
initially suspected viral infection, especially roseole (sp?) due to red
throat and small red spot on his chest after the 2nd day. On the fourth
day of fever, Ped. has done bload test, urine test and urine culture.

Here are the results : 1) anemia = 9.2 (don’t know units), 2) bload
count shows high viral activity, 3) CRP (C Reactive Proteine) = 100, 4)
~20 leukocytes (white bload cells?) in the urine (normal levels = 0-1).

The diagnonis was : 1) he is anemic, but this is the last thing to worry
now, 2) he has a viral infection, but it’s not any of the known children
diseases, 3) he has a bacterial infection due to high CRP value, 4) the
bacterial infection is in the urinary track (sp?) due to the leukocytes
in the urine and they believe it’s in the kidneys due to the high fever.

We’re immediately admitted in the hospital where they started giving
antibiotic via the vein for the last 3 days. Fever fell after 48 hours
on antibiotics, but the 2nd bload test done after 3rd day on antibiotics
shows CRP still = 100 but urine leukocytes down to 2. So they continue
the antibiotics from the vein.

They still do not know where in the urinary track is the infection but
they gave us the following suppositions : 1) either son is born with
malformed kidneys, 2) or there is a lession (?) in the kidneys, 3) or
when he does pipi, some of the pipi goes up the wrong way and so comes
the infection.

To find out they ask us to do the following tests: 1) echography (sp?)
of the kidneys, 2)sentigraphy (sp?) of the kidneys, 3) inject something
up the penis and check if it goes the wrong way. So far we did the
echography today and everything came out normal, so no kidney
malformation.

The sentography test (not done yet) is putting something down the vein
and after 4 hours making an X-Ray to see if there is a lession in the
kidneys. We worry about the safety of the sentigraphy test especially on
a 13mo. We think that a test like this is not really justified on a
first case of a urinary track infection, rather than a recurrent
problem.

We are in a country, where medicines, antibiotics and X-Rays are easily
prescribed. The docs tells us that 5% of the children who do these types
of infections have kidney problems and if the sentigraphy test is
positive will not change our course of action now, but it will give us
the reason to survey him in the future to prevent any kidney problems.
So we would greately appreciate any info on this test, or the tests and
treatments that the docs are doing in other coutries (USA?) for similar
cases, or any experiences from other parents that went through this.

Thank you very much and I apologise for the length of my post. Please
email me as well as posting because I am still in the hospital with my
son.
Regards,

Eugenia.Hatziang…@cern.ch

Would anyone be able to shed some light on a 20 month baby losing 1.5 kg and
putting the same amount back withing a period of 3 weeks.

Regards,

Raman.

I have heard that it is important to have a firm mattress for your
newborn.  If this is the case, then what about basinettes?  Should I avoid
using it?

Mary

Hi! I wonder if anyone knows whether we should periodically clean our
baby’s tongue – it’s usually covered with thick milk stains. Some of our
friends tell us we should do so with a sterilised towel but others say
just leave it alone. Our daughter is nearly two months old.

Also, is it necessary at her age to feed her water? We’ve been
bottlefeeding her about 1 oz a day, but it’s usually a struggle to get
her to drink up. Still, we’re afraid she might get constipated if she
never drinks any water and we’re thinking it’s good to get her used to
drinking water from a young age.

Would appreciate any advice.  

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I’m curious if anyone has experience, opinions, or studies/references
on the use of Growth Hormone with babies under a year old?  

                      The Noni Secret

Nearly three years ago (1993), a discovery was made that
put in motion a introduced by a friend to two well-known
food scientists, Steven Story and John Wadsworth. This plant,
known by the people of the islands of the South Pacific as
Noni, was destined to become the most unique and
important natural health discovery in decades.

Steven and John began immediately to learn all they could
about this unique discovery. The fruit of the Noni plant
yielded a very strong tasting juice that the peoples of
Polynesia have used for over 2,000 years for its amazing
health benefits. Learning this, the two scientists began
to share this unique juice product with many friends and
acquaintances. The results were astounding. Appreciating
the importance of their discovery, they began to develop
a process of harvesting, processing, and flavoring the Noni
juice to complete.

For the rest of the story visit: http://www.lands-end.com/sebb/

        This reply of mine is continued from my previous note on this
thread.  -cd

Tammy (ta…@quancon.com) wrote:

                        [snip]
: There have been three thousand studies of this issue 85 of them major
: research efforts —and they all say the same thing.  Of the 85 major
: studies only 1 failed to find a causal relationship between tv violence and
: actual violence and that one was paid for by NBC.  When the study was
: subsequently reviewd by 3 independant social scientists, all agreed that it
: did demonstrate a causal relationship.

        We are asking you for *references*, Tammy, not endless
arguments-by-assertion and arguments-from-authority.  And please do not
waste our time directing us to any studies which do not

        1) "Prove" that violent TV *causes* aggression in children, not
merely correlates with it, and
        2) Conclusively demonstrate that all research linking spanking to
child aggression is "bunk."

        This is what you claimed, weeks ago, to have 3000 references to
primary research literature in support of.  And you still haven’t cited
any of them.  When challenged, you claim to have already posted your
references and accuse your critics of being "liars."

: (Get All 2 Segments)
: Subject:      The Research? long..sorry
: From:         "Tammy " <ta…@quancon.com>
: Date:         1997/02/11
:   Article Segment 2 of 2
: University of Washington Prof. Brandon Centerwall facinated with the
: explosion of murder rates in the US and Canada that began in 1955, after a
: generation of  North Americans had come of age on tv violence, he decided
: to see if the same phenomenon could be observed in South Africa, where tv
: was banned until 1975.  He found after 8 years of showing mostly hollywood
: fare, South Africa’s murder rate skyrocketed.  His most telling finding was
: that the rate increased in the white communities first.  This mirrors the
: US crime statistics in the 1950′s and espeically points to tv because
: whites were the first to get it in both countries.

        Is this the sort of research design which you think "proves" a
*causal* relationship?  If so, then the fact that Sweden’s violent
juvenile crime rate diminished in the years after they passed their
no-spanking law must "prove" a causal relationship between abolition of
spanking, and lower crime rates.  But you have never heard me make that
particular assertion, Tammy, because it actually proves no such thing.
There are far too many variables involved in either case to even begin to
make causal claims.

        Do you accept this kind of "proof" when it appears to support
something you already believe, such as TV causing youth violence, but
reject it when it appears to support something you don’t believe, such as
banning spanking causing lower juvenile crime rates?

: ..From:"Honey I Warped the Kids"  Mother Jones, July/August 1993. by: Carl
: M. Cannon White House Correspondent for the Baltimore Sun  Copyright 1993
: by the Foundation for National Progress.

        In close to half a dozen reposted notes, Tammy, this is the first
complete reference citation you have actually given us.  And it is an
advocacy article in _Mother Jones_!  Is a polemic in Mother Jones your
idea of a "study?"  If not, then why have you reposted this note along
with claims that we are "liars" when we say you haven’t posted the 3000
research references you claim to have?

: Numerous groups have over the years called for curbing tv violence:
: National Commision on the Causes and Prevention of Violence(1969)
: U.S. Surgeon General (1972)
: Canadian Royal Commision (1976)
: National Institute of Mental Health (1982)
: U.S. Attorney General’s Task Force in Family Violence (1984)
: National Parents and Teachers Association (1987)
: American Psychologial Association (1992)

        Is this your idea of proof, Tammy, listing names of organizations
who have called for less violence on TV?  If so, please let me know.  I
have a far longer list of organizations which have called for abolition of
spanking in the schools, and in some cases in the home, which includes
more than one of the groups on your above list.  You can’t have it both
ways…

        The fact is, Tammy, you would never accept a list of organizations
officially in opposition to corporal punishment as "proof" that spanking
*causes* aggression.  So why do you expect us to accept this kind of
"proof"  when *you* offer it?  

: I could go on but I’m sure this too will go ignored or countered at the
: very best by "this is a spanking ng not a tv ng and not relevant".  Well it
: is relevant if your major assertion is that spanking is such a detrimental
: thing that it is equal to abuse and possibly the worst thing that a parent
: can do, well I counter that tv, unregulated and suprevised ( which is more
: than 80% of the time in possibly 95% of hoseholds) tv exposes our children
: to violence and is far more harmful than a few open handed swats on a fully
: clothed butt ever will and until they can show where Straus took tv
: watching habits into considreation I have serious doubts that simple open
: handed swats on fully clothed butts put those crimminals in jail, rather
: the more serious child abuse if anything and tv watching only enhanced it.

        Straus, and others, have found strong correlations between the
number of times a child is physically punished and the incidence of
violence and aggressive behaviors (Strassberg et. al., 1994; Straus,
1991). As I have pointed out numerous times before, Tammy, if you want to
explain away Straus’s and other researchers’ results by invoking "violent
TV" you will need to demonstrate that the children who are spanked the
most also watch the most violent TV.  Otherwise, you have not presented a
viable interpretation of the known correlation between spanking and
aggression.

: Tammy, who is thankful for the new tv rating system but still monitors tv
: watching in her house like a hawk.

: Tammy

: Gee, this tool me all of ohhhhhh 15 minutes to collect from Dejanews.
: Hmmmm I guess That is just too much effort for non-spankers to expend
: especially if they suspect that it would shoot their theories right out of
: the water.

        You are attempting to compensate in sheer quantity what your posts
lack in quality, Tammy.  The fact is, you have yet to give us anything in
support of your two claims from the 3000 studies you claim you can cite.

: >  And at least she hasn’t claimed the studies say what they don’t, and
: > she doesn’t attempt to hide facts that come out about studies ( try
: > going to Randy’s NoSpanKing page and checking out the real truth about
: > the studies that spanking causes agression.
: >
: >
: > >
: > > If, in fact, such studies have been conducted, please cite references
: so
: > > I and others can review them. Did we, in fact, live in a very peaceful
: > > world prior to the invention of TV?

: "If, in fact, such studies have been conducted,"  Are you Chris Dugan’s
: Clone or twin brother??  Are you too insinuating that I am lying?  Please
: post data to show where violence on tv has no negative influence on anyone
: let alone children.  Dugan too attempted to call me a liar on this subject
: which is when I started posting references for all to read, which none have
: read.
: gee, let see…… you think that television and movie rating systems are
: there for what reason?  This issue has been all over the newspapers,
: television discussion groups ( ever hear of the "V" chip") regular
: telivison and cable has instituted a rating system that rates everything
: from talkshows to cartoons, at their own expense, and they did this
: because????? Have a clue yet?

: Did we live in very peaceful times prior to the invention of TV?  Hmm
: probably not crime or violence free no, but less violent I would say yes.
: You should really read University of Washington Prof. Brandon Centerwall’s
: study on the introduction of television in South Africa after 1975, and the
: corresponding murder rate.  If nothing else this shows that the
: introduction of teleivison with its high violence content crosses all
: barriers and effects dramtically the behavior patterns regardless of
: economic, social, racial or other back grounds.

        Again, arguments like this one are weak because there are so many
confounding variables in play in addition to the one of interest.  This is
why I don’t use this kind of argument in support of banning spanking, even
though I could.  It just isn’t conclusive.  Remember, Tammy, you claimed
to have citations of studies which "prove" (your word) that violent TV is
the major "cause" (your word) of child aggression.  And arguments based on
increases in violence after TV viewing in a country became more widespread
(in addition to hundreds of other societal changes which occurred
simultaneously and which are not controlled for) do not demonstrate
either.

: >  If such studies exist???  Maybe you don’t have to worry about it
: > because you don’t have a TV.  I have seen dozens of shows ( newstype,
: > not talk shows) dealing with the dangers of TV violence.  And read a
: > book on it.  
: >
: >  And in the past, we lived in a world where children didn’t take guns to
: > school or  kill their friends in drive by shootings.  Maybe not very
: > peaceful era, but the violence wasn’t committed by society’s
: > youngsters.  In fact, when I was a kid, the youth of the nation were the
: > ones clamoring for love and peace.
: >
: > Orenda
: > who loves the fact that people will seem to attempt to call someone a
: > liar in no uncertain terms before going to any trouble to attempt to
: > look up posted cites, or attempt to do a little research on their own.
: >

: I would have also chided Gerald on not doing his homework on this…..but I
: figure he was either prompted to do this by others or, he is so new maybe
: he didn’t know about Dejanews, maybe.  The fact is I would hope that next
: time he is sincerely interested in something that someone has said they
: posted previously, that he
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Hi,
Kids can get chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia! If you would like
me to send you info. on these disorders or have kids with them, you can
e-mail me at any time!

Symptoms:
pain
fatigue
sleep disturbance
fever
flu like symptoms
headaches
irritable bowel syndrome
etc.

Sincerely,
Sarah