[Practice guidelines to manage children admitted in a general pediatric department with very mild or mild acute infective diarrhea]. / Linee comportamentali di fronte al bambino affetto da diarrea acuta infettiva di lieve o moderata gravità ricoverato in una Divisione di Pediatria.

A clinical-anamnestic card is proposed to gather the main minimal parameters which allow to monitor the course of children with severe or mild acute infective diarrhoea admitted to a pediatric department. This method has been verified through a back-evaluation of the data collected in our clinical-anamnestic cards throughout a period of seven months, and found it useful and appropriate. This case-record includes very mild or mild acute infective diarrhoea (corresponding to a loss lower than 10% of total body weight) in pediatric age children hospitalized in a general pediatric department. The clinical-anamnestic card is divided into five parts coinciding to five different clinical stages of the disease; during each stage, the essential anamnestic and/or clinical data necessary to a correct medical and nursing approach to the children affected with infective acute diarrhoea are recorded. The use of this card is also a good way to engage physicians, nurses and children's parents too, to pay attention to the substantial factors necessary for a correct management of the disease. The evaluation of these clinical-anamnestic cards led to the following general conclusions:--to keep body weight unmodified from the day of admission to the day of discharge--to use very seldom milk without lactose--to keep children on a very short term diet in order to quickly restore intestinal function, to increase body weight and to discharge children in few days.

[Therapy of Helicobacter pylori infections in children]. / La terapia dell'infezione da Helicobacter pylori in età pediatrica.

We consider Helicobacter pylori treatment in children, giving some indications about the necessity of the treatment, the drugs to use, the duration and the results of therapy. We give importance to the choice of some specific drugs and to the follow-up.

[Diagnosis of food allergy and IgG4]. / Diagnosi di allergia alimentare e IgG4.

We compared specific IgG4 levels in a group of children with food allergy and in an healthy control group. The results show no significant differences in the values of specific IgG4 levels between the two groups of children.