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P Palmieri

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[Short near-fainting in children with or without loss of conscience].

Short near-faints with or without loss of consciousness have different etiologies and pathogenesis and, according to these, they recur with various frequency. This subject was reported on several publications and here is again examined with the contribute of personal experience and the description of distinct cases. The following causes were examined: vagal hypertonia, digestive troubles (gastroesophageal reflux), metabolic troubles (cyclic ketosis, hypoglycemia and hypocalcemia with peculiar clinic manifestations). Among the neurological causes were examined: epilepsy, benign paroxysmal vertigos and, particularly, the so called breath-holding spells and the migraine, about that were reported a few examples of "migraine accompagnée". Among the cardiovascular causes (ischaemic cerebral crisis), -particular attention was dedicated to orthostatic hypotension syncope. A short hint about hysteria ends the exposition of psychical causes of short near-faints.

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[Food allergy in children. Diagnostic difficulties, doubts and digressions].

It is very difficult to diagnose an alimentary allergy especially because of: the difference among individuals in their physical, psychic and humoral reactions to the environment; weakness and variability of these reactions during the puberty; limited reliability in the results of certain kind of research (i.e. false positiveness and negativeness, discordance between laboratory results and the results of the challenge, neutralization of diagnostic antigenic extracts and/or the presence in these extracts of lectin, etc.); the bad compliance of some therapies and their restricted efficaciousness, particularly in the little children. Moreover: the superimposition of the clinical manifestations of alimentary allergy and pseudoallergy with those of allergy, the possibility of an association between the alimentary and the respiratory allergy, the acquisition on behalf of the allergic child of other kinds of allergy, false polyallergy, the allergy might change its seats and in consequence also its manifestations. The authors, apart a short account of the different diagnostic methods, lay stress on the challenge as the most reliable. They discuss upon the dose of a nourishment that can be given to the patient without risk, besides they suggest to take into account the type and the seriousness of the clinical manifestations in fixing this dose.

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