Summer is a good time to enable mothers to learn about diseases that may affect his preadolescent children and adolescents.
New York, June 2011.- / PRNewswire-HISPANIC PR WIRE. The pre-teens and adolescents are at risk of contracting certain diseases, including human papillomavirus (HPV) virus, the disease meningococcal (meningitis), whooping cough and tetanus. With children out of school very soon, the summer is a good time for mothers talk with their children’s health care providers about the ways that can help prevent these diseases.
A recent study was conducted on behalf of Merck online by Harris Interactive from 29 to 31 March 2011 and from 4 to 6 April 2011 between 346 mothers of children between the ages of 11 and 18, found that 86 percent of mothers were aware of preteens and teens are at risk of contracting certain diseases.
“Preteens and teens are at risk of contracting infectious diseases,” said Dr. Jaime Fergie, Director of infectious diseases at the children’s Hospital of Driscoll in Corpus Christi, Texas. “Many parents vaccinated their children when they were young children, but it is also important that they vaccinated them now that they are preadolescent and adolescent to help prevent certain diseases.”
Preteens and adolescents tend to reduce the number of regular visits to the doctor as they grow, and visits are usually made to sport doctors or by disease. Mothers can take to visit to the doctor during the summer to talk with the professional responsible for the health of your child on ways of preventing these diseases.
On certain infectious diseases
-Human papillomavirus (HPV) virus: HPV is a virus that affects an estimated 75% to 80% of men and women in his life. For the most part, the HPV goes away on its single. But there is no way to predict who may remove or not the virus. For those that do not eliminate certain types, HPV can cause cancer of the cervix in women, and other types of HPV can cause genital warts in men and women.
-Disease meningococcal (meningitis): meningococcal disease (meningitis) is a very serious infection of the membranes covering the brain and spinal cord. Infection can spread from person to person by close contact.
-Pertussis (whooping cough): whooping cough is a highly contagious respiratory tract infection that is transmitted by coughing and sneezing.
-Tetanus: Tetanus is a disease of the nervous system caused by a bacteria that enters the body through a cut or wound.
About Dr. Jaime Fergie
Dr. James e. Fergie is the Director of paediatric infectious diseases and epistemology of the children’s Hospital of Driscoll in Corpus Christi, Texas. He has a position as Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the school of medicine at the University of Texas A & M University, and associate professor and Deputy Coordinator of pedagogical practice in the center of Sciences of the health of the University of North Texas in Fort Worth.
Dr. Fergie received his medical degree from the Central University of Caracas, in Venezuela, and did his pediatric residency at children’s Hospital of Oklahoma in Oklahoma City. The completed a fellowship in research on infectious diseases at the Hospital of St. Jude children’s research and the children’s medical centre of Le Bonheur of the University of Tennessee, Memphis. . After concluding his training, he became a consultant in pediatric infectious diseases Center doctor Docente La Trinidad in Caracas, Venezuela.
On the survey
This survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of Merck & Co., Inc. from 29 to 31 March 2011 and 4-6 April 2011, between 2,200 adult women of 18 years, of which 346 are the legal guardians of a child between 11 and 18 years of age. This survey is not based on a probability sample and therefore cannot be calculated an estimate of the theoretical sample error margin. For a complete methodology of the survey, including the weight variables, please contact Jennifer Riek at jennifer.riek@edelman.com or (312) 233-1316.
About Merck
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