Wheezing and risk factors in the first year of life in Cantabria, Spain. The EISL study.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of wheezing during the first year of life in Cantabria, Spain and its associated risk factors.

Methodology: A cross-sectional, multicentre, descriptive epidemiological study was carried out in a representative sample of 958 infants in the first year of life, born in Cantabria. A previously validated and standardised written questionnaire was completed by the parents of infants seen between 12 and 15 months of age in the Primary Care Centres.

[Knowledge and attitude of professors concerning epilepsy. Evaluation of a survey conducted on 4,099 professors of Cantabria].

Thanks to a survey sent the 4,099 teachers of Cantabria, we value their knowledge and attitudes about the epileptic child. After analyses the 1,283 surveys were sent back (31.3%), 28% of teachers had had an epileptic pupil, although the 89% never had received specialized information about epilepsy, whose etiology was unknown by 30%.

[Flunarizine and dihydroergotamine in the treatment of migraine in children].

We administer during 6 months in randomised way dihydroergotamine or flunarizine to 50 children affects of classical or common migraine. A significative improvement was estimated in frequency, intensity and duration of their crisis in 87% with dihydroergotamine and 79% with flunarizine, without significative differences from one to other. Dihydroergotamine was specially effective in children with vegetative lability.