ABSTRACT
This paper presents practical guidelines for nutrition and feeding of infants and toddlers including vitamin D, vitamin K and fluoride supplementations and preventive measures at risk for food allergy based on family history.
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Breast Feeding , Food Hypersensitivity/etiology , Food Hypersensitivity/prevention & control , Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena , Nutritional Requirements , Practice Guidelines as Topic , Dietary Supplements , Fluorides , Humans , Infant , Infant, Newborn , Pedigree , Risk Factors , Vitamin D , Vitamin KSubject(s)
Colitis/drug therapy , Gastrointestinal Agents/therapeutic use , Intestinal Mucosa , Proctitis/drug therapy , Silicates , Child , Child, Preschool , Double-Blind Method , Female , Humans , Infant , Male , Random AllocationABSTRACT
Esophageal lesions due to treatment with medication in the form of tablets are frequent. The authors report the case of a 10 year-old child who presented with extended mucosal necrosis of the esophagus after having been given a tablet of Rhinasal in the evening, without concomitant ingestion of water. A fiberoptic endoscopy was performed 3 days after the onset and showed the recovery of the mucosal inflammatory lesions, without local or general treatment, allowing oral feeding of the child after the 4th day.
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Acetaminophen/adverse effects , Esophagitis/chemically induced , Phenylpropanolamine/adverse effects , Tablets/adverse effects , Acetaminophen/administration & dosage , Acute Disease , Child , Drug Combinations/administration & dosage , Drug Combinations/adverse effects , Esophagitis/pathology , Esophagoscopy , Fiber Optic Technology , Humans , Male , Phenylpropanolamine/administration & dosageABSTRACT
305 children with non specific colopathies were studied with respect to the etiologic factors which may be responsible for the onset of the diarrheic syndrome. Epidemiologic factors (ethnic group, mode of housing, standard of living, parents's age and profession) did not appear to play a significant role and studies of familial and personal histories did not appear to be of any help. On the contrary, analysis of the diet showed a high incidence of nutritional imbalances (75.2% of cases) especially with respect to hyperprotidic diets. The role of a major and repeated antibiotic therapy and of psychologic problems may be suggested in 46 (15%) and 36 (11.8%) of the 305 cases, respectively. Fiberoptic and histologic investigations of the proctosigmoid mucosa were performed in 67 children: an inflammatory aspect was found in 22. In 21 of these 22 cases, no etiologic factors could be found and these cases, especially those occurring before 6 months of age, might belong to a special clinical entity.
