Various studies have shown that as many as 75 percent of the population may have extra heartbeats, some even frequently. The incidence increases with age. This suggests that diabetics may profit by a low fat diet. She used terfenadine intermittently over the next seven months, and had two more episodes of weakness, jaundice and abnormal liver function. Terfenadine was stopped after the third episode of jaundice, and liver function tests returned to normal.
Many young children develop a stutter a year or two after they begin to speak.
This is often manifested by repetitions of parts of words. Many of these children outgrow the problem by late childhood. The problem may improve or worsen depending on circumstances. Often when a child is developing a new skill such as walking, his speech may worsen because his cognitive and motor resources are occupied with learning these new skills. Anxiety, fatigue, or illness may also induce more speech disfluencies.