Evis ALLUSHI
Albania
Title: The prevalence of intoxications in pediatric ages in pediatric repart of Vlora Hospital
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Abstract:
Introduction In our daily life we use o lot of chimicals substances that in general they become an intoxication recourse in adults but mostly in pediatric ages. Their maintaing in bad conditions or bad using of them may result in intoxication of pediatric ages.This axidentaly intoxication are most frequently in children of 5 years old,but especially in childrens from 1-3 years old.
Intoxication in children can be a very severe situation,situation in whiches they can even dies.
Intoxication means a pathologic situation caused by an ekzogenic or endogenic substance that can be toxic because of its natyre or its dosage.
The Aim The evalution of frequency and distribution of intoxications refering to their place of living,age,gender in pediatric repart of Vlora hospital in aim to clarify the etiology. General objectiv dhe specific objectivs. The evalution of frequency and distribution of intoxications The spread of the cases that came in hospital during all the months of the year The evalution of the months during the whiches intoxication has been much often. The evalution of the number of childrens because of each causes Which has been the ages must often with intoxication
The material and the method This is a description study realized from January up to December 2008-2010 in pediatric repart of vlora hospital.The objective of the material and the method that has been used is to study all the clinical carts of the hospitalizied childrens with this diagnose and the distribution of them during all the months of the year,the causes,the percent of the cases of each cause.
The results The total number of the cases for the period that has been realized this study is 463 cases. The causes and the number of the children respecting each case are:medications 8 cases,Hg 1 case,alcohol 7 cases,benzen 3 cases,defferent detergents 3 cases.pesticides 3 cases,aceton 3 cases. At the top are the alimentary intoxications with 34 cases.The most frequently ages are from 4 up to 14 years old during August and September.
ConclusionsFrom all the facts that have been more evident during this study we can say that intoxications are a very great disturbing for pediatric ages especially for this period,August and September
So as the result we can say that during the summer the number of cases that has taken assistance in hospital has been much more than the other months,especially during august.
We can also say that September is another great preoccupation about the childrens.Another fact very evident is also that the alimentary cause is must often in this ages,and after this are the intoxications because of different medications.Also,refering to the age factor we can say that the number of the childrens from 0-1 years old is very low,only during 2009-2010 we have 2 case,because of the way of feeding(breast feeding).For the children from 1-4 years old we have a very high number of cases.The reason maybe that in this age the childrens begin to explorate the world