Sleep disorders can lead to excessive sleepiness during the day. The consequences for those involved are massive. The daytime sleepiness (hypersomnia), diminishes the quality of life shattered, health and can lead to unemployment. This is the result of the largest study on this issue, the Danish researchers in the journal “Acta Neuro-Logica Scandinavica” publish.

Especially people who suffer from nighttime breathing problems are often extremely tired during the day. These include severe snorers and people with sleep apnea, but also people who get worse at night because of their excess weight air. Due to the shortness of breath, they sleep less deeply and wake-between more often than healthy sleepers. Also affected by hypersomnia are people who suffer from narcolepsy, a neurological disorder of the sleep-wake cycle and people with restless legs syndrome.

For their study, the team accompanied by Professor Poul Jennum from the University of Copenhagen, more than 2,200 patients with daytime sleepiness and more than 8,800 healthy subjects over a period of seven years. One of four Hypersomniaproband had to leave at this time because of various illnesses treated in hospital. Of the participants without the sleep disorder, it was only one in ten.

78 percent of disturbed sleep took drugs but only 68 percent of those without sleep problems. Also, the ability financially to come alone to make ends meet, was affected by the disorder of sheep: So were 47 percent of the patients some form of government support but only 35 percent of the participants in the control group. As a reason for the researchers suspect a lower level of professional capacity and more missed days. Remained untreated sleep disorder, it increased the risk of unemployment to 30 percent.

Absenteeism, unemployment, medical care and safe state support of disturbed sleep also affect the society. Calculated in this way the researchers found that each of the patients state and society more than 10,000 € per year cost.

Preventive anti-inflammatory treatment of eczema can prevent long-term relapse.

Eczema is a chronic, but non-contagious skin disease. Affected by this skin disease are also more and more children and young people. Now 15 to 30 percent of adolescents in industrialized countries suffering from eczema. They suffer mainly on the neck and the flexures with an inflamed skin, often with almost intolerable itching. “New studies show that a preventive anti-inflammatory treatment may prevent long-term relapse,” says Dr. Frank Ahrens, senior physician.

In eczema, the skin barrier function is impaired. This is caused by more recent findings have shown that frequent mutations of the gene for the protein filaggrin, which plays an important role for the barrier function of the skin and ensures an adequate skin moisture. In healthy people, protect the horny cells of the uppermost layer of skin from harmful influences and avoid a water-greasy moisture loss. If this barrier is disturbed, pollutants, allergens and germs easily penetrate the skin. Standard therapy and basic foundation of a successful treatment of eczema are therefore care agents to moisten the dry skin. A shear-like deterioration can be alleviated with steroid creams.

The selection of the right cortisone preparation is important. Can the weak hydrocortisone or other drugs with a favorable response side effect ratio are used. The drugs should be used as your doctor prescribes. Trigger for relapses are individual. Thus, allergens, stress, sweating, skin cleansing, or intensive care to certain textiles, for relapses. Particularly in young children can often cause a food allergy dermatitis. The pediatric allergologist does not recommend to omit certain foods on your own.

For adhering to the enamel plaque bacteria need a special substance. Would this off, could make no more plaque, researchers hope.

On the palate, called plaque bacteria adhere to the tooth enamel, then this creates plaque. Dutch researchers have now clarified how bacteria accomplish this attachment. This also allows possible starting point is found to the formation of harmful deposits and thus to prevent future tooth decay.

When docking at the tooth enamel, the bacteria count on a certain substance. If this off, could make the plaque bacteria is not wide on the teeth. Still, the researchers must overcome a hurdle, however: some of the substance required by the bacteria is chemically just as composed as a digestive enzyme in the human saliva. This enzyme is important in the decomposition of starch. If the auxiliary off the plaque bacteria, while the strength degradation would be blocked. Therefore, the scientists are looking for a way to only inhibit the important substance for the bacteria.

Childhood diseases like chicken pox, rubella, measles, etc are each of us a concept, but when we were almost all affected children have heard of these diseases. Today, however, fortunately, the possibility of his children already vaccinated too early to many of the common childhood diseases. In times of latent vaccine fatigue within the company to take However, not all parents perceive the possibility of a vaccine. This is in view of the fact that not every childhood disease risk for the children is unnecessary negligence.


What are children’s diseases as exactly and when do they occur? In the case of an infection caused by viruses or bacteria disease that typically occurs mostly in children, we speak of a childhood disease. Featured is such a rule by a high transmission capacity and a large infection rate. The incubation period, which is the time between infection and the onset varies from disease to disease, often heavily.

Where a child has been diagnosed at a young age to a child’s illness, it is immune as an adult against them. For children usually bring diseases with them a lifelong immunity. There are also cases in which infected adults with a childhood disease, the cause for it is the fact that they have not acquired immunity at a young age because they were not infected with the particular disease. Characteristic of an infection in adults is that the disease is usually much worse than in disease as a child, why complicated actions are not uncommon.

The following are the most common childhood diseases are listed:
* Chickenpox
* Measles
* Rubella
* Whooping cough
* Fifth disease
* Three-day fever
* Polio
* Mumps
* Scarlet
* Diphtheria

How can I protect my child from an illness with one of the above diseases? The general vaccination schedule to help eradicate childhood diseases in the long term in this country. Because of the preventive vaccination childhood diseases are therefore no longer on the rise.

The permanent Committee on Vaccination (STIKO), which sits at the Robert Koch Institute in Berlin, gives regular information on the current recommendations. The health insurance will cover the cost of vaccinations as soon as this by the competent national health authorities have been declared as a public recommendation.