http://treatinginfanteczema.com/leiners-disease/ Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:55:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://treatinginfanteczema.com/leiners-disease/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Dr. Marianne Konkoly-Thege Tue, 08 Dec 2009 10:55:15 +0000 http://treatinginfanteczema.com/?p=43#comment-17 I had Leiner'disease in 1947, when I was 2 months old. According to my mother I almost died. Nobody knew the cause of the disease at that time. I suffered from several serious infections during my childhood, I had bilateral pneumonia 3 times (presumably pneumococcus). I usually got infected by my children when I was a young mother. Some years ago one of my technicians told me that her mother - who was a nurse - had taken care for a lot of children with Leiner's disease after the II. World War in Budapest, Hungary. As a clinical microbiologist I searched the written literature after this disease many years ago without any result. I have not found any expert who had any idea about this disease. Finally, in a textbook in English Leiner's disease was mentioned as a characteristic disease of young babies due to A vitamin deficiency of the mother during pregnancy. I thought that it could happen to my mother in Hungary after the war, when everybody was starving. Have you ever heard this explanation? Thanks to the possibility of searching topics by the aid of internet, I got to know the cause of the disease. Interestingly, as I got older, I am not infected more often than everybody else. In addition, as a microbiologist, I am vaccinated against a lot of infectious diseases, for instance against meningococcus. I am planning to be vaccinated against pneumococcus as well. I ask for the influenza vaccination every year. Do you think that I should do anything else being aware of the history of the Leiner's disease? I had Leiner’disease in 1947, when I was 2 months old. According to my mother I almost died. Nobody knew the cause of the disease at that time. I suffered from several serious infections during my childhood, I had bilateral pneumonia 3 times (presumably pneumococcus). I usually got infected by my children when I was a young mother. Some years ago one of my technicians told me that her mother – who was a nurse – had taken care for a lot of children with Leiner’s disease after the II. World War in Budapest, Hungary. As a clinical microbiologist I searched the written literature after this disease many years ago without any result. I have not found any expert who had any idea about this disease. Finally, in a textbook in English Leiner’s disease was mentioned as a characteristic disease of young babies due to A vitamin deficiency of the mother during pregnancy. I thought that it could happen to my mother in Hungary after the war, when everybody was starving. Have you ever heard this explanation? Thanks to the possibility of searching topics by the aid of internet, I got to know the cause of the disease. Interestingly, as I got older, I am not infected more often than everybody else. In addition, as a microbiologist, I am vaccinated against a lot of infectious diseases, for instance against meningococcus. I am planning to be vaccinated against pneumococcus as well. I ask for the influenza vaccination every year. Do you think that I should do anything else being aware of the history of the Leiner’s disease?

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