Clotrimazole can be used for children, age indication for this drug is not. But clotrimazole issued in the form of dosage forms for topical and local application, so when applied to the skin it must be remembered that the baby's skin also performs a respiratory function, so cover large areas it can not salve.

Treatment for thrush

Clotrimazole - is an antifungal drug, intended only for local and external application. Children under one year it is usually used for the treatment of oral candidiasis Oral candidiasis - affects not only children   or leather.

For treatment of oral candidiasis (thrush) A 1% solution for topical application. Trading names of drugs - Candida. Available in plastic bottles it with built-droppers stoppers. 10-20 drops of 1% solution of Candida applied to affected areas of the mouth 3-4 times a day, preferably with a cotton swab. Curdled raids on the gums and inside of the cheeks are usually 3-5 days, but treatment must be continued for several days by a physician.

When such symptoms Candida overturned. Acute overdosage with the topical application of candida is unlikely.

The treatment of skin candidiasis

For treatment of skin candidosis Candidiasis of the skin - Pay attention to the condition of his body   children most often used 1% clotrimazole cream as candidiasis skin folds in the child accompanied by friction and weeping In the soak and expressed diaper rash in a child is used as powder Candida. If candidiasis the skin accompanied by increased dryness of the skin, then apply 1% clotrimazole cream.

All drugs, active substances which is clotrimazole, a child may appoint a doctor. He will explain to the mother that the baby's skin is much more actively involved in the act of breathing than the skin of adults. Therefore, to cover large areas of the child can not salve. The ointment or cream is applied alternately on small areas of the baby's skin two to three times per day. The skin before it is cleaned using neutral soap and dry. The duration of treatment is determined by a doctor, but it should not be less than two weeks.

Candid - powder for external use (powder) is also used for the treatment of skin candidosis, and in the treatment of diaper dermatitis. In 1 g of powder contains 10 mg of Candida active active ingredient clotrimazole. Powder applied to the affected area of ​​skin 3-4 times a day. It quickly removes Moisture and inflammation of the skin, after three days start to improve, but the treatment is recommended to continue for a long time, for at least two weeks.

Treatment of other fungal infections

For children of preschool and school-age children, to communicate with animals and their peers often develop yeast infections Fungal infection: to prevent and defeat Caused by dermatophytes - microsporia and trichophytosis. To catch these infections can be from both human and animals. They are highly contagious and difficult to treat. As a rule, tinea appears as small red scaly patches and plaques that can spread throughout the body and spread to the scalp (ringworm).

In the initial stage of the disease when the elements a little bit rash and the scalp are not yet affected, treatment can be carried out with the help of external antifungal agents, including using clotrimazole.

Clotrimazole ointment is applied a thin layer on clean and dry skin and gently rub. The procedure is performed two or three times a day, the treatment should last at least a month.

When common dermatophytes or defeat the scalp applied antifungal drugs general (systemic) action, which can be combined with an external appointment clotrimazole.

In older children, it is also possible fungal infection of the feet, such as athlete's foot. This disease is usually accompanied by, excessive sweating feet, weeping, and the development of erosions. Therefore, its treatment is applied clotrimazole cream and powder.

Clotrimazole is used to treat children, it has no restrictions on age. But prescribe this medication the child needs a doctor. If it is an independent uncontrolled treatment of fungal infections, it is usually nothing good is not finished.

Galina Romanenko

A few days after the birth of the skin and sclera of a newborn baby becoming more or less pronounced yellowish tint. Often it scares inexperienced parents, but in most cases, this jaundice is not dangerous and is very fast. Nevertheless, jaundice requires medical supervision since it causes may be different.

Causes of jaundice

Bilirubin - a bile pigment that is formed after the breakup of the hemoglobin of red blood cells (red blood cells). Initially formed indirect or unconjugated bilirubin (NB), which is captured by the liver cells from the blood and is subject to conjugation - under the influence of the enzyme glucuronyl NB is connected with glucuronic acid to form a linked or direct bilirubin (PB). Direct and a small amount of indirect bilirubin in the bile enter the intestine, where it is converted into new compounds, which are excreted in the feces (stercobilin) ​​and urine (urobilin).

In the fetus and newborn child sharing bilirubin has features that contribute to the accumulation in the blood and tissue penetration. During this period the life of the child in his blood contains red blood cells with the so-called fetal hemoglobin Hemoglobin: worse - low or high? To grow old and decay faster than normal red blood cells, and therefore the amount of bilirubin in the blood increased. In fetal bilirubin is practically not subjected to conjugation due to the failure of its enzymatic system, so in the fetal blood contained mainly UXO, which eliminated from the body with meconium (feces).

After birth, the baby grows in the blood content of NB and there are phenomena of jaundice. A few days later starts the enzyme system of the liver and in the body of the newborn begins a slow conversion of NB to PB and removing it from the body in feces, contributing to a gradual decrease in symptoms of jaundice. Fully newborn liver enzyme system starts at 3-4 weeks of age.

Jaundice in newborns may be due to physiological characteristics of this age (while it proceeds differently in term and preterm infants), congenital and genetic disorders of the liver or bile ducts, the effects of different medications or intrauterine infection, blood incompatibility of mother and fetus, and so on .

Physiological neonatal jaundice

Physiological neonatal jaundice due to increased blood levels of the National Bank due to the imperfections of the enzymatic system of the liver. Elevated levels of UXO in the blood occurs in all newborns in the first days of life, but the yellowness of the skin marked little more than half of newborns. As the amount of bilirubin Bilirubin - a great tool for the diagnosis   It accumulates in the blood gradually, physiological jaundice is most often on the third day of life. Yellowness appears first on the face, then on the trunk, extremities, conjunctiva of the eyes and mucous membranes.

At 4-6 day of life amounts of bilirubin in the blood reaches a maximum, after which its content is starting to decline (starts the enzyme system of the liver). Yellowness loses intensity and gradually disappears at the end of the first - the beginning of the second week of life.

The general condition of the child at the physiological jaundice does not suffer, treatment of this condition is usually not required. Only in severe jaundice being treated as an intravenous injection of different solutions with the purpose of elimination of bilirubin from the body.

Jaundice of prematurity

Jaundice in preterm infants is more common than full-term. Premature neonates NB accumulation is slower, continuing a long and reaches higher concentrations, which creates a risk of bilirubin toxicity to the brain tissue damage (kernicterus).

The level of bilirubin in the blood reaches a maximum at 5-6 days, jaundice lasts a total of 4-5 weeks. Severity of jaundice of prematurity is independent of birth weight, but is in direct proportion to the degree of maturity of the fruit and the presence of various diseases in the mother during pregnancy.

Pronounced jaundice premature requires active treatment in the neonatal pathology unit at Children's Hospital.

Hemolytic jaundice newborns

Hemolytic jaundice newborns may be due to incompatibility of blood between mother and fetus, or with a variety of hereditary diseases.

Hemolytic disease of the newborn is the result of immunological incompatibility conflict with the blood of the fetus and the mother. Most often, such a conflict arises in the blood incompatibility of Rh factor Rh factor - still medical mystery It presents in erythrocytes. When re pregnant Rh-negative mothers (not available in the erythrocytes of Rh-factor) Rh-positive fetus Rh blood of the fetus to the mother's body becomes alien (antigen). In response to the antigen in the mother's body develop antibodies Antibodies - "soldiers' immunity Who seek to stick together with the antigen and to bring them out of the body. As a result, the child's body decays (hemolysis) of erythrocytes and the accumulation of a large number of indirect bilirubin.

Jaundice in this case appears at birth or in the first days of life. It changes the overall condition of the child: it is lethargic, bad and sucks a little move. As the level of free bilirubin in the blood of the newborn shows signs of disorders of the brain. This is a very dangerous condition because it can lead to irreversible changes in the central nervous system. Treatment should only be carried out in the hospital.

Jaundice in newborns may have different causes and consequences, to understand this may be a doctor.

Galina Romanenko