The UNICEF and WHO in 1982 launched this initiative among doctors, nurses, health workers, parents, in hospitals and maternity homes to promote, protect and support breast feeding. The object is to re-establish the superiority of breast feeding in order to protect the health of the new born by becoming baby friendly. To fulfill this initiative [...]
Coat’s disease is a severe form of retinal telengectasia [idiopathic congenital vascular malformation], which typically affects one eye of boys in their first decade of life.
In early stages it is characterized by large areas of intra and sub retinal yellowish exudates haemorrhages associated with overlying dilated ad tortuous retinal blood vessels and a number of [...]
Retinal vasculitis
This is the condition characterized with inflammation of the retinal vessels. This may be primary in which case its also known as eales’ disease or it could be secondary to uveitis.
Eales’ disease
It is an idiopathic [cause unknown] inflammation of the peripheral retinal veins. It is characterized by recurrent vitreous haemorrhage; so also referred to [...]
Retinopathy of Prematurity
This is a bilateral proliferative retinopathy, occurring in premature infants with low birth weight who often have been exposed to high concentration of oxygen. This disease was earlier known as retrolental fibroplasia.
Low birth weight and decreased gestational age are now considered the primary causative factors. Supplemental oxygen administration is now considered only a [...]
Etiology:
Dietary deficiency or defective absorption from the gut.
Associated with protein energy malnutrition (PEM) and other infections (measles).
Clinical features:
Night blindness: earliest symptom of vitamin a deficiency.
Conjunctival xerosis: conjunctiva looks dry, lustureless [...]