Diseases of children (pediatrics)

Mental retardation: treatment

Psychopharmacotherapy of mental retardation enters a new era, characterized by improved diagnostics, an understanding of its pathogenetic mechanisms, and the expansion of therapeutic possibilities.

Tuberculous meningitis: treatment

Various combinations of anti-TB drugs are used. During the first 2 months and before the sensitivity to antibiotics are identified, 4 drugs (the first stage of treatment): isoniazid, rifampicin, pyrazinamide and ethambutol or streptomycin. The scheme is corrected after determining the sensitivity to the drugs. After 2-3 months of treatment (the second stage of treatment) often go to 2 drugs (usually isoniazid and rifampicin).

Treatment of vulvovaginitis

Treatment of vulvovaginitis in girls depends on the cause of vulvovaginitis. Treatment of vulvovaginitis, caused by the presence of a foreign body in the vagina, begins with the removal of a foreign body. Then, the vagina is washed with antiseptic solutions.

Diagnosis of vulvovaginitis

Differential diagnosis of vulvovaginitis in girls is performed with cervical disease and vaginal developmental malformation.

What causes vulvovaginitis?

Relapses of nonspecific bacterial vulvovaginitis in girls in 82% of cases occur against the background of exacerbation of extragenital pathology, which is one of the leading causative risk factors for vulvovaginitis, a powerful source of infection.

Vulvovaginitis in girls

Vulvovaginitis (colpitis) - inflammation of the external genitalia in combination with inflammation of the vagina. At this age, vulvovaginitis accounts for about 65% of all diseases of the genital organs. In adolescent girls, vulvovaginitis caused by fungi of the genus Candida (found in 25% of cases of inflammatory diseases of the lower genital tract), and bacterial vaginosis (in 12% of cases) is more common.

Dysfunctional uterine bleeding

Uterine bleeding in the puberty period (juvenile uterine bleeding, dysfunctional uterine bleeding, profuse menstruation in the pubertal period) are bloody discharges from the uterus that are different from natural menstruation, which arise during the first 3 years after menarche as a result of mismatching the activity of the organs of the reproductive system.

Dysmenorrhea of adolescent period

The term "dysmenorrhea" refers to a wide range of neurovegetative, metabolic-endocrine, mental and emotional abnormalities, the leading manifestation of which is the pain syndrome caused by the pathological accumulation in the endometrium on the eve of menstruation of the degradation products of arachidonic acid (prostaglandins, thromboxanes, leukotrienes and monoamino acids), enhancing the afferentation of impulses, annoying pain centers in the central nervous system.

Diencephalic syndrome with menstrual irregularities in adolescents

Diencephalic syndrome is a symptom complex caused by polyglandular dysfunction with disturbance of metabolic and trophic processes, the menstrual cycle and accompanied by disorders of the cardiovascular and nervous systems.

Delayed puberty in children

Delay in puberty is the absence of an increase in mammary glands in girls who have reached the age of 13, or the development of secondary sexual characteristics beyond the upper limit of the age standard by 2.5 standard deviations.

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