Don’t follow “elimination” or fasting diets. These are specific nutritional approaches for some pathologies and only physicians can recommend them.
Elimination diets (ones that exclude carbohydrates, gluten, fats, lactose, animal proteins, etc.) or selective dietary approaches, such as those based on presumed food intolerances (not diagnosed by scientifically validated methods) or blood groups, or Paleolithic...
Do not prescrive chest x-ray for diagnosis and follow-up of uncomplicated pneumonia in children
Clinical diagnosis of pneumonia in children is possible, according to guidelines that limit the use of chest X-rays to well-defined particular conditions. More generally, in clinical practice, the execution of any diagnostic procedure (lab or instrumental evaluations)...
Do not prescribe antibiotics for viral acute respiratory tract diseases (ear infections, sinusitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis)
Antibiotics are the most prescribed drugs in Italy, even in children, and the phenomenon of antibiotic resistance is a serious problem. The appropriate clinical management of upper respiratory tract infections provides for watchful waiting in most cases, on the basis...
In absence of medical indications do not prescribe formula or liquids other than breast milk to newborns in the first weeks of life.
The duration of breastfeeding, especially exclusive breastfeeding, correlates positively with the present and future health of both mother and child. Exclusive breastfeeding in the first weeks of life is a positive long-term predictor of breastfeeding. Offering...The campaign DOING MORE DOES NOT MEAN DOING BETTER – CHOOSING WISELY ITALY is promoted by Italy’s Slow Medicine
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