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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is caused by a direct blow to the head with different amounts of force that cause mild, moderate, or severe brain injury. Mild TBI can be called a concussion.
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Because the spleen can be affected differently by different diseases, it is difficult to say how many children have spleen problems.
Spina bifida means cleft spine, which is an incomplete closure in the spinal column. The 4 types of spina bifida are
Some of the more common inborn errors of metabolism include
Children with sickle cell disease should have at least 8 cups of water or fluid per day.
More than 100 specific conditions have been identified that can cause short stature. Achondroplasia occurs in people of all races and with equal frequency in males and females, and it affects about 1 in every 26,000 children. An estimated 10,000 individuals in the United States have achondroplasia.
Seizures represent the most common neurologic disorder in children. About 1% of all children have a type of non-febrile seizure disorder, or epilepsy.
Febrile seizures are described as generalized (whole brain and body involved), tonic-clonic (shaking) movements of a child’s body in response to a high fever. These seizures represent abnormal brain electrical activity triggered by fever.
One in 10 babies (9.6%) was born prematurely in the United States in 2016.
