[Prevalence and asthma risk factors in municipalities of the State of Guerrero, Mexico].

Objective: To determine the incidence and the principal risk factors cause of asthma in scholar children between 4 to 6 years old and in adolescents students between 13 to 14 years old in six municipalities in Guerrero State, Mexico.

Material And Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out with 6,136 students (both groups) in the Acapulco municipality on the second semester of 1999 and with 1,128 students in municipalities near to Acapulco in the first semester of year 2000. The procedure was to use the questionnaire ISAAC to interview the mothers of the children between 4 to 6 years old, and apply directly interviews to the 12 to 14 years old group.

Gnathostomosis, an emerging foodborne zoonotic disease in Acapulco, Mexico.

Between 1993 and 1997, 98 gnathostomosis cases were clinically identified in Acapulco, Mexico. Intermittent cutaneous migratory swellings were the commonest manifestation. Larvae were identified in 26 cases, while in 72, final diagnosis was made on the basis of epidemiologic data, food habits, and positive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and Western blot results.

[Sports in the multidisciplinary treatment of the asthmatic child].

A comparative analytical study was undertaken in 18 asthmatic children were incorporated in a physical rehabilitation program participating in swimming and physical exercises which lasted one year. During this time their parents also attended an informative course so that they could obtain a greater understanding of the illness and its treatment as well as their having received familial psychiatric evaluations which focussed on a better solution to the conflicts this illness presents. Significant changes were noted in the spirometrical results being those as noted FEV1 (p less than 0.