Prevention

La dipendenza da dispositivi elettronici nei bambini e negli adolescenti

Tessa C, Giannessi M, Berloffa S.

2025/2 — pag. 97-102 — DOI

Internet addiction and, more specifically, Internet gaming disorder is a pathological condition, recently defined, particularly prevalent in adolescence. The article describes this form of behavioural addiction by analysing its temporal roots, predis...

Screening per il diabete mellito di tipo 1: la parola ai pediatri di famiglia

Solidoro S, Tamaro G, Mari J, Braida C, Faleschini E, Tornese G.

2024/10 — pag. 641-647 — DOI

The screening programme for type 1 diabetes mellitus shall be implemented nationwide in Italy in 2025 with the goal of early identification of at-risk individuals through the detection of anti-beta cell autoantibodies. This study explored the knowled...

Il ritiro sociale in adolescenza: un nuovo modo di esprimere la sofferenza

Rainò E, Ciccolella A, Romagnolo E, Carbonara C, Anichini A, Vendrametto V, Vitiello B.

2024/6 — pag. 377-382 — DOI

Social withdrawal has recently been recognized by the Istituto Superiore di Sanità (the Italian National Institute of Health) as one of the most common problems among adolescents in the post pandemic world, with an onset estimated between 11 and 13 y...

Infezione da West Nile Virus

Orsi F, Bini G, Baroncelli GI, Bonuccelli A, Peroni D.

2024/4 — pag. 233-237 — DOI

West Nile Virus infection in children may usually occur as a self-limiting febrile illness or rarely as a neuroinvasive disease with possible late neurological sequelae. Therefore, the paediatrician should take into consideration this condition in fe...

Il ruolo del pediatra nella prevenzione del suicidio in adolescenza

Davico C, Di Franco F, Lonardelli E, Bondone C, Vitiello B.

2023/8 — pag. 509-514 — DOI

Suicide is the second leading cause of death in Italy in young people between the ages of 15 and 29. Mental health problems are increasing among children and adolescents. Very often paediatricians have to manage young patients with psychiatric proble...

Gestione del Covid-19 in età pediatrica: documento di consenso

Gruppo di Lavoro su Covid-19 in Pediatria della Regione Emilia-Romagna (RE-CO-PED)

2021/2 — pag. 85-101 — DOI

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 has rapidly spread, becoming the first pandemic of the 21st century by death toll. Children appear to be less affected than adults, with a milder clinical presentation and a significantly lower...

Bambini e adolescenti con intossicazione acuta alcolica in Pronto Soccorso

L. Giacchetti, G. Bassanese, G.C. Signorelli, F. Bianchi, E. Ferrucci, V. Pezzoli, G. Simonetti

2019/1 — pag. 33-38

Background - Acute alcohol intoxication (AAI) is a growing phenomenon among adolescents with severe individual and collective impact. vObjectives - The aim of the study is to describe the presentation, the clinical and epidemiological manifestatio...

Otite media acuta in età pediatrica Aggiornamento della Linea Guida della Regione Emilia-Romagna

S. Di Mario, C. Gagliotti, M.L. Moro, a nome del Gruppo "ProBA"

2016/1 — pag. 35-40

This guideline on acute otitis media in childhood updates the guideline published by the Emilia-Romagna Region in 2007. Acute otitis media (AOM) is a frequent condition in childhood, which causes repeated clinical visits, emergency unit visits, and...

Sostenere la salute riproduttiva per ridurre i difetti congeniti e la prematurità: un appuntamento importante

L. Marchetto, A. Compagni, F. Filippini, E. Rigotti, E. Agricola, S. Ruggeri, A.E. Tozzi, R. Bortolus, P. Mastroiacovo

2014/5 — pag. 299-303

Birth defects and prematurity are relatively common events. In Italy they affect approximately 90,000 infants every year and are a leading cause of infant mortality. Babies who survive and live with birth defects have an increased risk of developin...

La gestione del bambino con ipercolesterolemia familiare

G.G. Viviano

2014/2

Among hypercholesterolaemias, familial hypercholesterolaemia is a hereditary dyslipidaemia characterised by an isolated and permanent increase in circulating low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels. The heterozygous form is often clinically silent and m...

Prevenzione e controllo dell’influenza: raccomandazioni per la stagione 2010-2011

C. Rizzo, M.C. Rota

2010/8 — pag. 504-507

The Italian Ministry of Health published the recommendations for the prevention and control of 2010-2011 seasonal flu in July 2010. This paper contains the list of categories to which the vaccine is to be offered preferentially, the preventive meas...

Prevenzione dei problemi ortopedici dei mascellariLinee Guida Nazionali per la promozione della salute orale e la prevenzione delle patologie orali in età evolutiva - Parte quarta

Gruppo Ministeriale Linee Guida per la Promozione della Salute Orale e la Prevenzione delle Patologie orali in età evolutiva

2010/6 — pag. 379-382

Breast-feeding has a beneficial effect on the oral and facial structure development and it should be encouraged. Bottle-feeding more easily leads to non-nutritive sucking. After the third year of life, maintaining this habit could lead to malocclus...

Prevenzione delle patologie delle mucose oraliLinee Guida Nazionali per la promozione della salute orale e la prevenzione delle patologie orali in età evolutiva - Parte terza

Gruppo Ministeriale Linee Guida per la Promozione della Salute Orale e la Prevenzione delle Patologie orali in età evolutiva

2010/5 — pag. 302-305

Oral mucosal manifestations may be divided into white lesions, ulcers, neoproliferations and blue-red lesions. The aetiology may range from infections (fungi, viruses, TB, bacterial superinfection) to oral trauma, immunopathology, oncopathology and...

Apporti consigliati di vitamina D: un "ritorno al passato"

G.I. Baroncelli, F. Vierucci, S. Bertelloni, T. Vanacore, G. Vierucci

2010/4 — pag. 237-245

The last guidelines of the American Academy of Pediatrics for prevention of vitamin D deficiency in infants, children, and adolescents recommend a minimum daily intake of 400 IU of vitamin D beginning soon after birth. All breastfed and partially b...

Prevenzione delle gengiviti - Linee Guida Nazionali per la promozione della salute orale e la prevenzione delle patologie orali in età evolutiva - Parte seconda

Gruppo Ministeriale Linee Guida per la Promozione della Salute Orale e la Prevenzione delle Patologie orali in età evolutiva

2010/4 — pag. 233-236

The oral hygiene during the first two years of life of the child has be performed by parents after each meal using a wet cotton bandages. Toothbrush should be introduced as soon as possible. Its proper use, at least 2 times a day, avoids gingivitis...

Prevenzione della carie - Linee Guida Nazionali per la promozione della salute orale e la prevenzione delle patologie orali in età evolutiva - Parte prima

Gruppo ministeriale linee guida per la promozione della salute orale e la prevenzione delle patologie orali in età evolutiva

2010/3 — pag. 155-160

Recently, the interest in pediatric diseases prevention has significantly increased. Nevertheless, oral diseases, although widely diffused in the population, have been neglected in the recent past. Prevalence and incidence remain high in Italian ch...

Antipiretici e convulsioni febbrili: qualcosa di nuovo?

G. Tornese, J. Bua, G. Simeone, F. Marchetti

2009/10 — pag. 657-660

The degree of temperature reached during a febrile episode has been considered the main condition of risk for the onset of febrile seizures for many years. In theory, the administration of antipyretics, lowering the body temperature, could prevent ...

Recupero vaccinale anti-rosolia nel post-partum

G. Leonardi, D. Campra, V. Silano, M. Gaggero, L. Boscardini, S. Fobelli, A. Guala

2008/7

Alimenti solidi, evidenze liquide? Non direi

A. Fiocchi

2008/1 — pag. 27-31

According to the hypothesis that a delay of introduction of solids in the infant diet could prevent the development of food allergy in children the author underlines the need to identify the weaning especially for children with assessed risk of all...

I cibi solidi nella dieta del bambino. Serve tardarne l’introduzione ai fini della prevenzione delle allergie?

S. Miceli Sopo

2008/1 — pag. 21-26

There is a lack of evidence about the timing of introduction of solids in the infant diet especially regarding the possibility that a delay of introduction of particular allergenic food could prevent the development of food allergy in children. In th...

Influenza aviaria: proviamo a fare chiarezza

L. Grandori

2005/9 — pag. 601-603

The virus of influenza type A has as reservoir birds and it is a modified bird flu virus. There is an ongoing pandemic of avian flu among birds. The spread from birds to man has occurred and led in a few cases to death. Inter-human transmission of ...

Salute orale in età pediatrica: studio della prevalenza di carie in provincia di Milano

M. Vezzoni, R. Lucchini, L. Acerbi, A. Calaciura, C. Morelli, L. Fantini, A. Senna, L. Strohmenger

2005/4

Inquinamento extradomiciliare e malattie respiratorie del bambino

A. Battistini, R. Marvasi

2005/4 — pag. 240-245

The two most important air pollutants are: particulate mater with a diameter less than 10 μm or PM10 and ozone (O3), the first prevailing from October to April the second during summer. Epidemiological studies suggest that every 10 μm/m3 ...

Quando iniziare e quando sospendere i farmaci antiasmatici

L. Travan, I. Berti, G. Longo

2005/3 — pag. 157-163

The understanding of the chronic bronchial inflammation characterizing asthma led us to a more convinced and accurate use of inhaled corticosteroids such as long lasting therapy. Although times and ways for this treatment have been defined by sever...

Raccomandazione nazionale per la supplementazione preconcezionale di acido folico

R. Bortolus, PP. Mastroiacovo

2005/2 — pag. 111-114

A national recommendation for the pre-conceptional use of folic acid has become a reality also in Italy. The “Network Italiano Promozione Acido Folico per la Prevenzione Primaria dei Difetti Congeniti”, co-ordinated from the Istituto Superiore di S...

La somministrazione di vitamina D nel lattanteper la prevenzione del rachitismo

G. Bartolozzi

2004/10

Il fluoro nella profilassi della carie dentale

A. Martelli, et al.

2004/3 — pag. 159-164

There is strong evidence of the efficacy of fluoride in preventing dental caries. Water fluoridation is the most cost-effective method. The optimal concentration of fluoride in the water is 1 mg/l. For all children assuming water with less than 0.7...

L’assunzione periconcezionale di acido folico

R. Bortolus

2003/10 — pag. 645-650

The preventive efficacy of the periconceptional use of folic acid is well established for neural tube defects. Similar but lower protective effects have been suggested for other congenital malformations such as orofacial clefts and some heart defec...

Efficacia dello zanamivir nei bambini da 5 a 12 anni

G. Bartolozzi

2000/10

Frequenza e Durata dell'Allattamento al Seno nella Provincia di Benevento, 1999

P. D’Argenio, E. Palombi, E. Versino, M.P. Aversano, R. Bassi, A. Di Fiore, M. Ferri, N. Glielmo, I. Giovanni, C. Petroccia, L. Sacco, S. Sasso, G. Salamina

2000/4

PREVENZIONE DELLA CARIEIl pediatra e i denti

T. Basso

2000/3 — pag. 153-162

A programme for caries prevention was started 18 years ago, in Carnia (a region in north-eastern of Italy) and is still going on. The aim of the programme was to encourage parents to use preventive measures (fluoride tablets, toothbrushing, diet, s...

NON INGRASSARE, DIMAGRIRE: SI PUÒ? (Copanello 1999)

S. Chiarappa

1999/9 — pag. 557-566

Treatment of obesity has been characterized sofar by the application of strict rules and diets, aiming at short term results. An alternative strategy is proposed, based on a gradual ecosystemic approach which includes the family and aimes to enhanc...

La prevenzione delle malformazioni congenite

P. Mastroiacovo

1998/9 — pag. 583-586

The Author reviews the available evidence on efficacy, risks and effectiveness of the main interventions aimed at prevention of congenital malformations (CM): rubeola immunization, preconceptional folic acid supplementation, avoidance of smoking...

È possibile prevenire l’abuso?

S. Pivetta, A. Macaluso, P. Materassi e coll.

1998/2 — pag. 114-118

The Authors reviewed all available intervention studies that included child abuse among the endpoints. 9 published trials were analyzed. Most of them were carried out in US, a few in UK, Ireland and Canada. The studies evaluated a wide variety o...

Rischio sociale e salute del bambino: il “Progetto Robin”

G. Mazzarella, C. Sorella

1997/6 — pag. 373-380

A number of social and psychosocial conditions such as poverty, family dysfunction, low parental education etc. put children at increased risk for disease or inadequate use of health services. The identification of simple and valid markers of th...