Diseases of Children

Children's Heart Disease:

December 18, 2003

Children: Heart Disease & Health

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1477

The two types of heart disease in children are "congenital" and "acquired." Congenital heart disease (also known as a congenital heart defect) is present at birth. Some defects in this category are patent ductus arteriosis, atrial septal defects and ventricular septal defects. Acquired heart disease, which develops sometime during childhood, includes diseases such as Kawasaki disease, rheumatic fever and infective endocarditis. Common diagnostic tests for these diseases are explained here.

About 40,000 children are born with a heart defect each year. Most of these children can benefit from surgery even if the defect is severe. When surgery is necessary, many medical treatments are available to help the heart work properly. There is nothing that parents could have done to prevent these defects. Learn about conditions that can interfere with the work of the heart and treatment options in this section.

Kawasaki disease is an example of acquired heart disease that occurs primarily in children who are 5 years old or younger. Although medical knowledge of the disease is still developing, there are steps you can take to recognize the symptoms and deal with the disease's effects.

At least 8 of every 1,000 infants born each year have a heart defect. About 1 million Americans with cardiovascular defects are alive today. Though research is ongoing, at least 35 defects have now been identified.

Legacy of Life Endowment

The Legacy of Life is an American Heart Association campaign to raise $1 million for congenital heart defect research. This endowment will provide a perpetual funding source for congenital heart defect. Learn More...

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Heart Photographs

Patent Ductus Arteriosus Photograph

http://www.kumc.edu/kumcpeds/cardiology/pedcardiopath/pda1path.gif

http://www.kumc.edu/kumcpeds/cardiology/pdadfct.html

Diagram: ductus arteriosus

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Heart murmurs thyroid problems and anemia:

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4571

Heart Murmurs

What causes heart murmurs?

by the American Heart Stroke Association

Heart murmurs are most often caused by defective heart valves. A stenotic (sten-OT'ik) heart valve has a smaller-than-normal opening and can't open completely. A valve may also be unable to close completely. This leads to regurgitation, which is blood leaking backward through the valve when it should be closed.

Murmurs also can be caused by conditions such as pregnancy, fever, thyrotoxicosis (thi"ro-toks"ih-KO'sis) (a diseased condition resulting from an overactive thyroid gland) or anemia.

A diastolic (di"as-TOL'ik) murmur occurs when the heart muscle relaxes between beats. A systolic (sis-TOL'ik) murmur occurs when the heart muscle contracts. Systolic murmurs are graded by intensity (loudness) from one to six. A grade 1/6 is very faint, heard only with a special effort. A grade 6/6 is extremely loud. It's heard with a stethoscope slightly removed from the chest.

Related AHA publications:

Heart and Stroke Facts

Innocent Heart Murmurs

See also:

Aortic Regurgitation

Congenital Cardiovascular Disease

Congenital Cardiovascular Disease Treatments

Diastolic Dysfunction

Heart, How It Works

Innocent Heart Murmurs

Mitral Valve and Mitral Valve Prolapse

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December 18, 2003

Children: Heart Disease & Health

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1477

The two types of heart disease in children are "congenital" and "acquired." Congenital heart disease (also known as a congenital heart defect) is present at birth. Some defects in this category are patent ductus arteriosis, atrial septal defects and ventricular septal defects. Acquired heart disease, which develops sometime during childhood, includes diseases such as Kawasaki disease, rheumatic fever and infective endocarditis. Common diagnostic tests for these diseases are explained here.

About 40,000 children are born with a heart defect each year . Most of these children can benefit from surgery even if the defect is severe. When surgery is necessary, many medical treatments are available to help the heart work properly. There is nothing that parents could have done to prevent these defects. Learn about conditions that can interfere with the work of the heart and treatment options in this section.

Kawasaki disease is an example of acquired heart disease that occurs primarily in children who are 5 years old or younger. Although medical knowledge of the disease is still developing, there are steps you can take to recognize the symptoms and deal with the disease's effects.

At least 8 of every 1,000 infants born each year have a heart defect. About 1 million Americans with cardiovascular defects are alive today. Though research is ongoing, at least 35 defects have now been identified.

Legacy of Life Endowment

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Most internal diseases and disorders are said to be with a unknown cause. The links on MS and Diabetic conditions are below. What are we doing to our babies who are not showing more and more metabolism disorders and internal diseases. More numbers of the sick children will be posted as we get the numbers released how many are distressed in our societies. Our society should be having healthy children, not more of them sick..

The fact are these internal disorders, if the research and Inquiries are done, what they have in common, are likely linked to "Active Management" of child birth. These causes I say, are related in the birth histories. If any of us are sick, these will be in common:

Unnecessary interventions caused by Active Management, in most hospitals and practiced by most midwives, the are:
drugging the mothers, during gestation and during labor and during the birth of the child (common are Demerol (morphine) and Oxytocin, Pitocin, Syntocinon, Misoprostol, Cytotex, and Methergin (ergot derived medications).
supine birth positions closing the birth canal up to 30 percent,
cutting the mother to birth her babies (episiotomy, c-sections, the latter up to 26 percent USA);
immediate or early (30-second umbilical cord clamping);
injections of Vit. K and Hep B;
insertion of a needle for a pH test and PKU (genetic testing) ;
and vaccinations at two months of age while the child was yet anemic by being deprived, at birth, 20 to 50 percent total blood volume. That is 4 to 6 ounces of blood taken from a baby who was 9 pounds, of normal gestation, 9-months, who from conception to birth only created 10 ounces of blood (300 ml).

That is why babies are getting sick, the weakness and low immunities are present. The medical persons took their babies blood and sold it to research, cosmetic companies, and transplants. This is an increased trend today, but has been a factor of some of the doctors practices, witnessed by the nurses -- who said nothing. This has been going on for the past 3 and 4 generations of the secret manner medical organizations kept this confidential in the hospitals...who participated, in using the child's blood without informed consent. These are serious violations of trust of no harm done, best practice possible, and privacy of the genetic codes, the DNA, in all tissue and blood.

The interventions of active management cause injuries not noticed at birth, the child looks normal. But lurking is a Time Bomb, of internal disorders that are not showing up how serious they are, until weeks, months, years later, even to ages of 30. For example, people now have heart problems, one in four. This person, female, age 30 in Kamloops, BC, was thought to be having a heart attack, but later told, she had a hole in the heart, there since birth. When questioned of her birth she said she have to ask her mother what was done for her birth.

Most women were drugged with Valium, a form of date rate drug..and actually do not know what happened for any of their babies birth. That is strange indeed, but true, also of a lady who had 15 babies, and NOT one could she remember when their cords were clamped. Not one. Immediately at birth, or 15 minutes later.

We are not talking cutting we are talking clamping off the circulation of blood from the placenta to the infant's expanding lungs. Trends of early clamping have been done by the secrets of the doctors who choose at the time of the child's birth, when they saw the sex of the child, the size of the child...if they did or did not do hasty clamping. Most c-section babies, because they are larger babies have immediate cord clamping, and are expected to survive...they should have been the strongest of the babies being bigger, but were made anemic, and jaundice, and had iron over load..by drugs killing their healthy cells and low blood volume, so they had more iron and protein in their bodies and not enough blood to use it......That is iron overlaod.....and protein in excess that would take 2 weeks to be used in hemoglobin (iron and protein of the red cells).

Then we have babies with MS, diagnosed this at age 13 months; and we have 12,000 children diagnosed with diabetic disorders, every year in the USA, alone. What do they all have in common at birth, if investigated: drugs, early cord clamping, injections of drugs, and needles put into the babies, at birth to thereafter, and when the children are yet anemic, from harvesting their blood at birth. All concealed.

In some cases the parents selling the placenta blood, thought not important to the baby..to a rich relative. Such was the case of 2003 birth of New York baby...the mother intended it to be premature too, for greater quantity of stem cells. She planned a holiday in the highest mountains and had vigorous sex..sure enough, her baby was born premature, soon after this hope of increased blood cells by a high altitude and bringing on the birth by the endangering vigorous sex. She intended the baby to be harvested at the start of her pregnancy. So what did get, $30,000 USA...a plan of a crime, the perfect crime, but now her sentence is to raise a likely impaired and compromised child, but the baby is the victim and was exploited in all this.

Because insulin-dependent diabetes usually afflicts young people, it used to be called juvenile diabetes. About 12,000 children in the United States are diagnosed with the disorder every year.

Abstract: Purdue News August 16, 2001

Researchers closer to delivering new insulin pill for diabetics

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Chemical engineers are getting closer to developing a method for taking insulin and other medications orally instead of by injection, research that would benefit hundreds of thousands of diabetics in the United States alone.

Purdue University researchers, in findings to be discussed Aug. 26 during a national meeting of the American Chemical Society, have demonstrated that the method works in a chemical environment that mimics the stomach and upper small intestine.

The method might be used to treat insulin-dependent diabetes and other conditions for which medicines, such as insulin, currently cannot be administered orally because they are broken down in the acidic environment of the stomach.

Reference: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/html4ever/010816.Peppas.drugdelivery.html

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Diseases of All Ages:

For all internal disorders, the medical doctors involved in active management at birth, then seeing their babies sick months, or years later on, have covered up their sins, with witnesses of the nurses, of what they did on the child's umbilical cord and the amount of harvested blood they permitted their hospital's lab to take, and they could have stepped aside from logical no clamping of the cord at all, are indeed, involved in the research of using the deprived blood in transplants for MS

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Highlights-RepairWorkshop.asp

Among the potential source of replacement cells discussed were skin-derived precursor cells, bone marrow and "cord blood cells, fetal cells,"

adult brain cells, and myelin-making cells from the peripheral nervous system (Schwann cells). In a preliminary safety study, such Schwann cells taken from a nerve in patients’ ankles have already been implanted into MS lesions of a few individuals by investigators from Yale University (New Haven, CT), with results pending.

Neeta Roy, PhD, presented for the team led by Steven Goldman, MD, PhD (Cornell University, New York, NY), demonstrating that the human adult brain has stores of oligodendrocyte progenitors that, when transplanted into animal brains, can mature and achieve rapid remyelination. Ultimately it may be possible to provide the proper growth signals to progenitors instead of having to transplant them. Work is also under way to determine the potential of progenitors to replace damaged nerve cells.

Bright Horizon

Few scientific fields are changing as quickly as the landscape of tissue repair. As workshop participants learned, it was only within the last year that scientists uncovered the potential of diverse cells such as those found in skin and bone marrow to transform into brain cells. It appears that our bodies contain a virtually limitless source of replacement cells – which may be exploited if the right signals can be found to stimulate their proper transformation and growth into viable new tissue.

If the immune attack can be stopped, this exciting area may ultimately lead to ways to repair the damage and restore nerve function in individuals with multiple sclerosis.

*International Workshop on Repair of the Central Nervous System, October 5-7, 2002, Nice, France, co-chaired by Catherine Lubetzki, MD, PhD (Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France) and David Colman, PhD (Montreal Neurological Institute, Montreal, Quebec, Canada). Sponsored by the National MS Society (USA) and ARSEP, with additional support from Multiple Sclerosis International Federation, Bayer, Berlex Laboratories, Biogen, Inc., GlaxoSmithKline, Immunex, Serono Laboratories, Teva Neuroscience, Inc., Wyeth-Ayerst Pharmaceuticals. "

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"Since 1980, however, over 400 cases of childhood MS have been recorded in over 25 medical publications. Initial symptoms have been seen as early as 13 months old, with diagnosis as young as 2 years of age. Largely because of new technology, the numbers of children and adolescents diagnosed with MS are steadily growing.

An estimated 400,000 Americans have MS, and as many as 5% may develop symptoms in childhood or adolescence, even though most are not diagnosed until they are much older. The advent of the MRI and other new ways of detecting MS lesions in the brain and spinal cord have resulted in numerous articles in the MS literature citing case after case of pediatric MS across the country. Because neurologists so rarely encounter childhood MS, diagnosis may be delayed or more difficult than for adult-onset disease.

Today, childhood MS is often treated in the same way as adult MS. In addition to a range of interventions to treat the various symptoms that can occur, there are four injectable disease-modifying drugs that have been shown to alter the course of the disease. These drugs have dosing schedules ranging from once a week to every day. The medications have been tested and approved for use by adults, but have not been systematically studied for children.

Although consensus guidelines exist for diagnosis and treatment of adult MS, none have been developed for children and adolescents—largely because little is known about the impact of MS on this young population. Neurologists who treat children with MS have reported, however, that some children present with cognitive difficulties that may impact academic achievement. Some studies also indicate that more young girls are diagnosed with MS than young boys, mirroring a gender imbalance also seen in adults with the disease.

Young Persons with MS: A Network for Families with a Child or Teen with MS

Contact the Program Coordinator

Toll free:

1-866-KIDS W MS

(1-866-543-7967)

or send an e-mail to childhoodms@nmss.org .

U.S. residents can also

contact your Society chapter.

Toll-free: 1-800-FIGHT MS

Find out more about the

Read about Anna, age 17

Pediatric MS Study Group

Increase knowledge of pediatric MS

Increase awareness of pediatric MS

Provide increased services for children and parents

Read more about the Pediatric MS Study Group.

MS is a disease that affects the whole family. Its impact is felt throughout the entire family system, affecting communication, relationships, and daily functioning. Symptoms such as extreme fatigue, weakness, bladder problems, and cognitive changes may alter the child's ability to participate in normal childhood activities. Children may also exhibit a range of emotions and behaviors—such as aggression, chronic depression and generalized anxiety—as a secondary consequence of diagnosis.

Parents have valid concerns about their child's health, education, and future, and the National MS Society has established a broad range of initiatives to help families with a child or teen with MS.

In addition, the Society recently established a Pediatric MS Study Group under the auspices of its Medical Advisory Board. The goals of the task force are to:

Increase knowledge of pediatric MS

Increase awareness of pediatric MS

Provide increased services for children and parents

The chair of the taskforce is Dr. Lauren Krupp, professor of neurology and psychology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Dr. Krupp is also co-director of the MS Comprehensive Care Center (www.hsc.stonybrook.edu) and director of the Pediatric MS Care Center www.pediatricmscenter.org). According to Dr. Krupp, understanding childhood MS will shed light on the causes of MS and better treatments for the disease.

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Pediatric_and_Childhood.asp

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Approximately 400,000 Americans acknowledge having MS, and every week about 200 people are diagnosed. Worldwide, MS may affect 2.5 million individuals.

Date: November 21, 2003

http://www.nationalmssociety.org/Who%20gets%20MS.asp

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Comments:

The above speaks of the Proof the motive for hasty clamping, experiments to use the deprived cells, in the children that do become sick, years later. The cord stem cells were harvested at birth and likely linked and associated with the consequences of contributing to this disease, MS, and likely the hasty clamping the cause of it in the first place...if we did a review on the birth practices.

When you weaken the child with drugs...and hasty umbilical cord clamping, the harvesting of the babies blood, 20 to 60 percent total blood volume, results in financial gains that are more profitable then gold. This "assures" medical business persons there share in the Big Profits in government grants for the research and the transplant industry...world wide.

Those involved in their organizations, not looking for causes, alleging this disease, too, a mystery, get their share of income too: books are sold, conventions, speakers, etc., etc...but there are NO resolutions, no petitions for an Official Commission Inquiry on Active Management. There is certainly NO PREVENTION RESULTS, NO INVESTIGATION WHAT THE BABIES HAD IN COMMON AT BIRTH, and thereafter, on vaccinations, and while in a anemic condition.

From Donna Young

Natural Birth Education (And Practice)

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Search this www.lotusbirth.com web site for : AAP policy, SOGC policy, ACOG policy; Placenta; Fetus to Neonate Circulation; 30-second clamping; World Health Organization and Dupont ; Circumcision ; Dr. Sarah Buckley's Declaration ; Canadian Criminal Codes and when a baby is a person; and any other subject you may be interested in child birth. Search Lotusbirth

(Reference from Protect Babies http://www.123-baby-birth.com) Search at Google this web site for the " No Policies " on equal protection to babies at from the various government officials who appointed representatives to protect the public on medical policies and practices; also the "No policies" of the various medical associations, societies, and colleges did not live up to no form of discrimination to women or the child of any kind. It is believed they had a duty to have a policy of equal protection and security of person, regardless of: age, mental or physical disadvantages ; race, color, social or marital status of the pregnant lady ; or belief or faith of the family, or genetic type of blood sought for by medical researchers, for stem cell matching, and use of white cells, mature red cells, platelets, enzymes, hormones, and plasma.

contact: Donna Young, Mother and Grandmother

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