1. Asthma is a chronic inflammatory lung disease that causes wheezing, coughing, and shortness of breath. Some symptoms of asthma can be treated by inhaling medicine.
2. A bili light is a light therapy tool used to treat jaundice in newborns wherein the infant is placed under blue lights which convert bilirubin for proper excretion.
3. Bilirubin is a yellow colored breakdown product of red blood cells.
4. A check up is a medical examination performed periodically to evaluate a patient’s health even if the patient has no apparent ailments.
5. An infant is a young human being in the first year or two of life.
6. Jaundice is a yellowish coloring of the skin caused by excessive levels of bilirubin in the blood. This condition is often related to disease of the liver.
7. If an illness is juvenile, it occurs in children.
8. A newborn is an infant in the first twenty-eight days after birth.
9. Obesity is a medical condition in which a person accumulates a potentially unhealthy amount of excess body fat.
10. Pediatrics is medical care for infants, children, and adolescents.
11. A teenager is a young human being between the ages of twelve and twenty.
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