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Reverse Blood Grouping: A Simple Guide

 Blood grouping is one of the most important steps in medical science, especially before blood transfusion, organ transplant, or pregnancy care. While most people are familiar with forward blood grouping (testing a person’s red blood cells), fewer know about reverse blood grouping—an equally essential step to confirm accuracy. What is Reverse Blood Grouping? Reverse blood grouping, also known as serum grouping or back typing, is a laboratory test used to identify the antibodies present in a person’s plasma/serum. In this test, the patient’s serum is mixed with known red blood cells (A, B, and O cells). The reaction (clumping or no clumping) helps detect the natural antibodies and confirms the person’s blood group. It is called reverse because, unlike forward grouping (which looks at antigens on red cells), this test looks at the antibodies in plasma. Why is Reverse Blood Grouping Important? 1. Accuracy Check – It cross-verifies the results of forward blood grouping. 2. Error Detect...
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Diseases caused by lifestyle, booming

Diseases caused by lifestyle, booming

The emerging pathologies and related to life habits outweigh the infectious ones in pediatric impact, as it has been exposed to Primary Attention.
 "at this moment the new habits and lifestyles are the cause of a very important percentage of the pathologies that we see and are fundamentally related to three areas: food and nutrition, initiation and maintenance in the use of drugs, and accidents. " Dominguez has remarked that the phenomena associated with these areas "the most important is that of overweight and obesity. "He has emphasized the need to bet on prevention and education at the individual and collective level to avoid its great impact." Many times we tend to medicalize situations and say that medical problems are from the health sector, but the choice of correct eating habits or the prevention of accidents do not constitute a medical problem, but of the community in general and of each one of us ".
"It's not about blaming anyone for the situation, because that is not the answer or our function at all, but to show the population ways to prevent problems." As an example, he recalled that "putting our children's belts on and sitting them in the car reduces the accident rate considerably and, if they do arise, they are less serious". In addition, something as simple as hand washing "is the best prevention of infection infectious disease, both respiratory and gastroenteritis."
n addition, the need to consult as soon as possible for this phenomenon has been emphasized since many parents do not consult well because of the shame suffered by the child or adolescent, who refuses to talk about the topic, or because they themselves or a close relative suffered the same. problem and wait for spontaneous resolution.
Asthma, which affects 10 percent of the child and adolescent population, has also been highlighted. Álvarez has stated that "it is a chronic and complex disease that presents great variability and impact in patients and families, in fact, it is the chronic pathology that consumes a greater number of resources and time in pediatric primary care".

Therapeutic education

An essential component in the treatment of childhood asthma is therapeutic education, allowing the patient and his family to know how to achieve good control of the disease and improve the quality of life.
Regarding mental health for children and adolescents, Álvarez stressed that "it reaches a prevalence of 20 percent in our country."

 In childhood, behavioral disorders are common, while in adolescence most cases of eating disorders are seen. "Finally, Álvarez highlighted rheumatic diseases," which are not well known, but are considered one of the most important causes of reduced quality of life for children and young people ".
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