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– If we carry out a technical inspection of our cars every year, let’s do the same with the children. We should systematically take them to the doctor so that he can make a health check – appeals prof. Alicja Chybicka, hematologist and pediatric oncologist.
- Today, a lot of preventive examinations are performed in neonatal wards. A panel of more than 20 rare diseases is screened
- – New ones are still coming into force, for example in the field of SMA, i.e. spinal muscular atrophy – emphasizes Dr. Aleksander Krzywulski, pediatrician
- Developmental abnormalities, including ophthalmic abnormalities, can be noticed thanks to regular health balances of the child
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“Look at your eyes” – this is the slogan of the 30th jubilee Final of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity. Because, as Jurek Owsiak explains, sight is one of the most important human senses. Therefore, this year’s collection money will be allocated to equipment for the diagnosis and treatment of children’s eyesight.
Each year, several thousand young patients are hospitalized in pediatric ophthalmology departments. The reasons why children are looked after by ophthalmologists include: deterioration of visual acuity, glaucoma, cataracts, injuries, tumors and other developmental anomalies of the organ of vision. Therefore, pediatric ophthalmology clinics require modern ophthalmic equipment.
To detect diseases in time
All developmental abnormalities, including ophthalmic ones, can be noticed, among others, thanks to the regular health balances of the child. It is nothing more than a preventive, comprehensive medical examination.
The fact that children need to be diagnosed regularly – in order to detect various diseases – has been argued for years by Prof. Alicja Chybicka, hematologist and pediatric oncologist.
– If we carry out a technical inspection of our cars every year, let’s do the same with the children. We should systematically take them to the doctor so that he can make a health check. Doctors, on the other hand, should examine children properly, devoting at least half an hour or even an hour to it, appeals prof. Chybicka.
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The opening balance
The first balance, called “opening balance” or “zero”, the baby goes to the hospital right after birth.
Then, in the first year of life, there is a lot of this research. They fall on the second, fourth and sixth year of life. After that, the child should see the doctor with the child approximately every three years, until they come of age.
The first, zero balance, is extremely important, it is performed in order to exclude the consequences of possible irregularities during pregnancy and childbirth. Then the doctor checks the heart rate and breathing of the newborn, also examines the reflexes and muscle tension, weighs, measures the circumference of the head and chest, and assesses the color of the skin. But not only.
– Today, in fact, a lot of preventive examinations are carried out in the neonatal unit: we screen a panel of over 20 rare diseases, including congenital hypothyroidism, congenital adrenal hyperplasia, phenylketonuria, cystic fibrosis, hip dysplasia, congenital defect in biotin metabolism or deafness – explains Dr. Aleksander Krzywulski, a pediatrician who works at the Sonokard Medical Center in Wrocław and at the Children’s Department of the Brest Medical Center.
A doctor with extensive experience in haematooncology and transplantation also emphasizes that In terms of carrying out these tests, Poland does not differ from those that are done all over Europe.
– And new ones are still being implemented, such as the detection of SMA, i.e. spinal muscular atrophy. It is a disease that, fortunately, medicine can treat today. But to do it effectively, you first need to recognize it, emphasizes Dr. Krzywulski.
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Milestones in child development
Extremely health balances for the second and fourth year of life are important. They are called “milestones” in a child’s development.
– Then you can see not only important elements of motor skills, vision and hearing, but also aspects of the child’s psychological development. After each such visit, the child is entered in the so-called percentile grids that take into account height, weight, head and chest circumference, adds the pediatrician.
The health balance issue is slightly different in children between the ages of five and nineteen. There used to be doctor’s offices in schools, now annual balances are usually made during subsequent vaccinations.
Assessment of the pandemic
Worrying is the fact that the pandemic significantly delayed the implementation of balance studies and preventive vaccinations, because the high number of COVID-19 cases among all age groups, forced care mainly for infectious patients. The situation is not being improved by parents who deny the pandemic. Although they usually follow a child’s health check, they are skeptical about vaccinations.
– Parents who follow anti-vaccination movements with their views are a serious problem. They are subject to manipulation, widespread misinformation, and that is why they give up the obligatory vaccination of their children against diseases such as measles, mumps, rubella and polio. They do so because they are wrongly afraid of undesirable post-vaccination reactions – emphasizes Dr. Krzywulski.
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