Emergency visits for childhood poisoning: a 2-year prospective multicenter survey in Spain.

Objectives: To describe the characteristics of childhood poisoning leading to consultation to 17 pediatric emergency departments in Spain.

Methods: During a 2-year period (January 2001 to December 2002), accompanying people of 2157 children with acute intoxication who visited consecutively at the emergency room were prospectively surveyed.

Results: Childhood poisoning accounted for 0.

[Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in childhood. Report of 3 cases and review of the literature].

Three infants with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) are reported. Two cases belong to infants died with AIDS; one of them have as infection source multiple transfusions of blood during the neonatal period and the other case was an haemophilic children transfused several times with commercial factor VIII. The third case belong to an infant, four months old, with AIDS-related complex, born of mother intravenous drug abuser.