[Miraculous low carbohydrate or carbophobic diets: evidence-based nursing perspective].

Given the obesity epidemic in Western society today, as well as its influence on population's health as a risk factor for the most pressing health problems, diet treatment to control overweight ought to be considered as a priority in the specialized and primary health nursing care. A review of some supposedly miraculous diets, based on drastic reduction of consumed carbohydrates, as well as the available scientific evidence show that such diets pose a health hazard besides being ineffective to control excess weight in the short- and long-term. The negative consequences of a reduction of the percentage of consumed carbohydrates, thus resulting in an increase of proteins in the diet are set forth.

[Children who are allergic to cow's milk. Nutritional treatment].

An allergy or intolerance to cow's milk protein (APLV-IPLV) is the most frequent food allergy among early childhood in our environment, related to genetic and environmental factors. This allergy tends to appear during the first few months of life, after the introduction of cow's milk protein in a child's diet and it manifests itself with symptoms which depend on foreign matter being introduced (immunological or otherwise). A diagnosis is made by means of the patient's case history and is completed by laboratory tests.

[Nursing care in the contrapulsation balloon implantation, maintenance and withdrawal].

Intraaortic pump is used as a mechanical circulatory support device for patients with heart failure by means of a lot of causes. Because it requires constant attention is used mainly in intensive care units. By inflating and deflating intraaortic balloon increases flow to coronary circulation and relieves some of the hearts workload.