Lina Medina, as the most Youngest Mother of the world, at 5 Years Old

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Born at full term at Lima’s maternity clinic, her child was taken through a caesarian operation done by Dr. Lozada and Dr. Busalleu.

Her son was weighing 2,700 grams or 5.92 pounds, was well formed and was in good health. The Child and her young mother were able to leave the clinic after only a few days.

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Lina Medina (born September 27, 1933, in Paurange, Peru) is the youngest confirmed mother in medical history, giving birth at the age of 5 years, 7 months and 21 days.

Born in Peru, Lina was brought to a hospital by her parents at the age of 5 years because of increasing abdominal size. She was originally thought to have had a tumor, but her doctors determined she was in her seventh month of pregnancy. Dr. Gerardo Lozada took her to Lima, Peru, prior to the surgery to have other specialists confirm that Lina was in fact pregnant. A month and a half later, on May 14, 1939, she gave birth to a boy by a caesarean section necessitated by her small pelvis. The surgery was performed by Dr. Lozada and Dr. Busalleu, with Dr. Colareta providing anaesthesia. Her case was reported in detail by Dr. Edmundo Escomel to La Presse Medicale, along with the additional details that her menarche had occurred at 8 months of age (or 2 1/2 according to a different article[1]), and that she had had prominent breast development by the age of 4. By age 5 her figure displayed pelvic widening and advanced bone maturation.

Her son weighed 2.7 kg (6.0 lb; 0.43 st) at birth and was named Gerardo after her doctor. Gerardo was raised believing that Lina was his sister, but found out at the age of ten that she was his mother. He grew up healthy but died in 1979 at the age of 40 of a disease of the bone marrow.

Lina Medina never revealed the father of the child, nor the circumstances of her impregnation. Dr. Escomel suggested she might not actually know herself by writing that Lina “couldn’t give precise responses”. Lina’s father was arrested on suspicion of rape and incest, but was later released due to lack of evidence.[1] Medina later married Raúl Jurado, who fathered her second son in 1972. They live in a poor district of Lima known as “Chicago Chico” (“Little Chicago”). She refused an interview with Reuters in 2002.

In young adulthood she worked as a secretary in the Lima clinic of Dr. Gerardo Lozada, the doctor who performed her caesarean section. Lozada gave her an education, and helped put her son through high school.

Do You Take Flu Shots?

Swine flu has been infecting people since the first time it was detected in the people of the United States in April 2009. What makes swine flu more dangerous than a normal influenza season is that like the Spanish flu of 1918 it has killed mostly healthy young people. Usually influenza is only dangerous for the old and sick. This suggests that like with the Spanish Flu, the potentially deadly part could be the immune reaction of the body against the virus. So what can be the best prevention to keep away from swine flu? Aside from proper hand washing, covering the nose when sneezing and coughing and generally taking extra care is having the swine flu vaccine. The US study shows that healthy people will be protected from swine flu eight to 10 days after getting a single shot of the H1N1 swine flu vaccine.  Swine flu is now widespread in 11 states; all 50 states report cases. That means there’s as much flu going around now as there was at the peak of last flu season. Recently the U.S. has purchased 195 million doses of swine flu shots so that it’s likely that more than enough of every American who wants it can be vaccinated. Have you taken your flu shots already? If not, when would you grab one? Or do you find it no longer needed?

Going Global With Otay Group Charity

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Our friends from OTAY Group Charity http://www.otaygroup.org are hard at work networking, spreading the word, and collecting kids SHOES. In November 2009, the team will go abroad to Guatemala, to participate in a shoe drop project. The project will include a Medical Mission, Sports Education, Culinary, and Community Service. Volunteers from different backgrounds will be donating their time to fulfill the need for “Global Citizenship”.

Otay volunteers are preparing for the weeklong event. In total, 10 volunteers, with varied skills and backgrounds will be going to Guatemala to assist in humanitarian efforts. Chefs, nurses, college students, sports coaches, team leaders and teachers will be working with orphaned children. The main theme with this mission is to realize Global Citizenship and create relationships with our neighbors in Guatemala.

They are writing new stories on a daily basis. The volunteers and support are coming from different areas including Los Angeles, Santa Clarita, Lake Hughes, Inglewood, San Diego, and even as far as New York. Shoes are being driven or flown in, from various donated sites. One example of the support for the shoe drive   is with St. Mary’s Academy, an all girl Catholic high school. A successful joint venture support, which consisted of TEENS organizing a shoe drive for a school wide community service project gave them an opportunity to be leaders in their own community. Collaboration with St. Mary’s Academy made OTAY’s mission of Organized Trips around Youth, a reality. Within two weeks, the huge impact of this collaboration was evident. Students and staff of the school were able to collect more than 354 pairs of shoes. OTAY’s original goal was to collect 350 pairs of kid’s shoes bound for Guatemala. Currently, not only did they meet the target number, but also they will have additional shoes to distribute to surrounding orphanages in Guatemala. Collaborating with St. Mary’s Academy was especially inspiring and rewarding experience for  OTAY group.

In difficult economic times, many people are now realizing the hard-ship that surrounds our local, national, and international communities. OTAY Group Charity is a small entity that is helping spread that awareness, and creating friendships along the way. They are servicing the community to assist while improve awareness of other cultures while creating support for peace amongst our neighbors.

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Pregnant Woman Pregnant Again?

On September 24, 2009, an Indonesian woman gave birth to a 19-lb. 2-oz. baby behemoth but it was only the second weirdest pregnancy tale.The strangest belongs to Julia Grovenburg, a 31-year-old Arkansas woman who has a double pregnancy. It’s not twins, Grovenburg became pregnant twice, two weeks apart. In Grovenburg’s case, she became pregnant first with a girl (whom she has decided to name Jillian) and then two weeks later with a boy (Hudson). The babies have separate due dates — Jillian on Dec. 24, Hudson on Jan. 10. Below is a related video. Please watch it and share your thoughts about this issue.

Do you have the heart to share?

As I was looking for the latest videos online, I had come up with this very devastating video of the Typhoon Ondoy which hit most of the areas in Metro Manila, Philippines on September 26, 2009. Typhoon Ondoy which has an international code name Ketsana, poured more than a month’s worth of rain in six hours submerging most of Metro Manila. As of press time, there were 240 people killed, some were still missing and thousands were left homeless with no food and no clothing.

If you have the heart to share. Please contact us or donate to:http://otaygroup.org/

Looking back at 9/11 tragedy 8 years ago

Looking back to the exact day today 8 years ago was a sad, shocking, depressing, agonizing tragedy. It was never anticipated as everybody was still in the fresh mood ready to tackle the challenges of a new day.

I was so tired that day from a long night of duty. I wanted to close my eyes right away upon laying my back to bed when a family member told me about the tragic news on television. I could no longer attempt to sleep as I was so shocked about the incident. How could somebody ever thought of risking their own life just to follow what they believed were right without thinking that thousands of innocent people would be hurt and even loss their lives? I was so sad just thinking of the family and relatives of those who were victims of those terrorist attacks. I could not imagine how they were able to deal with the loss of their love ones and how they were able to cope up with the drastic changed and the sad situation.

Doctors, nurses, firefighters, and other medical professionals, where were you during the 9/11 attack in 2001? Were you one of those who took care of the victims? What can you say about it now?

Back to School for Nursing Students

Back to School...

Vacation for students is over. Whether you like it or not, there is no way you can stop it. Unless you are not going to college or you will not go back to school again.

So are there any things that made you feel excited about going back to school? Or are there certain things you never wish you’ll have and encounter? What about the most hated professor or subjects in school? When I was in college I really hated the sciences itself. Funny, it made me wonder why I was into nursing school when I hated Chemistry. Why is Chemistry important in nursing by the way? I learned that there are many facts and principles we need to know in chemistry which could help us to understand the aspects related to our profession. The medications, solutions and many things need our understanding in its chemistry so as not to compromise the patient’s life. Most nurses generally use the pumps or charts to figure a dosage, no doubt it’s the easiest thing to do but I still think it is something that we need to know because what happens if power is lost? We need to make calculations by hand then. So I guess we need to study it no matter how we hated it.

How about you? What made you long to go back in school? What do you think about Chemistry?

Blog by: B. Bustamante R.N.

Why are the Medical Professionals the Hardest Patients?

I can not answer for others but I can only give some probable reasons why I think medical professionals are the hardest patients or probably the annoying significant others.

Would you agree with me if I say that medical professionals are mostly coward when we talk about injections? It would be a hard part on the new nurse to convince them to get vaccinated. It would put so much pressure for a busy nurse to perform a skin testing to a colleague who needs an antibiotic for his illness. I doubt if a medical professional patient follows the doctors and nurses’ advice on a medical regimen and a diet from the dietitian to be followed 100%. I can say, we give the best health teachings in the world yet when we are given the list of it we tend to ignore it and say we know it already but do not follow it anyway. And when our love ones are sick, we are so involved in details that will often irritate the medical staff. Is it the knowledge about the diseases that makes medical professionals a hard to deal with patients or is it because we are aware of some shortcomings that we sometimes do and are afraid that we might be victims of it ourselves?

I can only wish that medical professionals when become sick will act as patients rather than a health provider for themselves.

Blog by: B. Bustamante R.N.

Medical Connect At The Largest Mixer 2009

We recently got invited by our friends at Conexion to the Largest Mixer in Los Angeles. It was an event to network with other organizations. Here are some images from the event.

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