ndonesia has an important progress in community health status improvement, i.e infant mortality rate, maternal mortality rate, and life expectancy. However, amongs the ASEAN country these indicator were worse within the member. Since monetary crisis in 1997, difficulty of family economic decreased nutrition status of child. This situation shows Indonesia still have many problems about mother a…
A 10 years old boy with bronchial asthma referred to allergy clinic for allergy work-up. He complained of abdominal pain and blurred vision 20-minutes after undergoing allergy skin scratch test. Physical examination showed clammy and cyanotic ectremities, and hypotension. The skin test result showed positive rection for house dust, mite, and shrimp. Based on these findings the diagnosis of ana…
Simple glaucomas are characterized by an elevated intra acular pressure (IOP) and, are an important cause of blindness in the world. The blindness is due to the optic nerve atrophy and is found more frequently in women. It has been reported that high activity of G6PD isozyme can reduce the ocular pressure in the calf eyes. The activity of G6PD isozyme in the blood of simple glaucoma patients ha…