An innovative new therapy is being used to fight birth injuries by cooling the baby’s body. It has been discovered that if a newborn’s body temperature is lowered to about 6 degrees below normal within six hours that it could decrease the damage done to the brain from birth injuries. The idea is that the low temperature causes the body to slip into whole body hypothermia. There have been many cases over the years when the protective benefits of cold temperatures for the brain have been noted. For example young children who have drowned in icy lakes and been resuscitated have recovered with little or no brain damage. Research has been done in the United States which has shown that cooling provides benefits to infants who were born deprived of oxygen. Babies whose body temperature was lowered to 92.3degrees within 6 hours and kept there for 72 hours have been…
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Brain Cooling Used to Fight Birth Injury
December 16, 2010Mother Blames Birth Control for her Daughters Death
December 14, 2010When 18 year old Michelle Pfleger collapsed in class and was pronounced dead a few hours later, her mother never gave a thought that the birth control pill Yaz, that her daughter was taking to treat acne had caused her death. An autopsy has determined that a blood clot in Michelle’s lung caused her death, and it has been noted that the report did not link the untimely death to her prescription medication. Because the young woman was taking Yaz to treat acne, which it has not been FDA approved for, several close friends suggested that Michelle’s mother look into other cases where women have died from taking Yaz and Yasmin. The concerned mother collected evidence that links Yaz with an increased risk of blood clots. A woman in Switzerland recently died from the same type of lung blood clot as Michelle and her death was attributed to the birth…
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Botox For Cerebral Palsy
December 10, 2010A new study reports that Botox may help relieve moderate to severe drooling problems in children who have cerebral palsy or other neurological problems. However essentially Botox is a poison, a derivative of botulism and the side effects of the injections have been associated with severe and fatal injuries when the injected medication spreads to other body parts. A clinical trial was performed involving 131 children who have been diagnosed with cerebral palsy or other non-progressive neurological disorders. Botox injections caused a significant reduction in the drooling problem in just less than 50% of the test children. The effects of the shot were apparent for about 22 weeks. Getting the medication approved for use in this manner will require an FDA approval which isn’t likely considering the problems that Botox has already caused. Botox has been approved for cosmetic use and to treat some medical conditions like crossed eyes, excessive…
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