RESUMO
The dietary habits of 174 infants under 6 months old and suffering from enteritis were analysed revealing a high incidence of feeding errors (almost always feeding with artificial formulas, wrong concentration of milk powder, failure to sterilise the bottle and the water used to dilute the milk, too early administration of undiluted, unboiled bottled cow's milk, too early and incorrect weaning). Such mistakes appeared to be linked to the poor economic and sociocultural conditions of the families concerned. It is claimed that dietary errors conditioned by the poor economic and sociocultural conditions encountered may have favoured the onset of enteritis and that the adequate prophylaxis of acute infantile enteritis will depend on improving people's dietary habits and living conditions.
Assuntos
Enterite/etiologia , Alimentos Infantis/efeitos adversos , Doença Aguda , Animais , Humanos , Lactente , Recém-Nascido , Leite/efeitos adversos , Fatores SocioeconômicosRESUMO
The Authors describe three infants with visceral leishmaniasis in whom bioptic research (in marrow, spleen and liver) has not demonstrated presence of leishmania. They remark this unusual aspect of visceral leishmaniasis in infant and debate the epidemiological, diagnostic, and therapeutic aspects of these cases.
Assuntos
Leishmaniose Visceral/diagnóstico , Animais , Antiprotozoários/uso terapêutico , Feminino , Humanos , Lactente , Leishmania donovani/isolamento & purificação , Leishmaniose Visceral/tratamento farmacológico , Leishmaniose Visceral/imunologia , Masculino , Meglumina/uso terapêutico , Antimoniato de Meglumina , Compostos Organometálicos/uso terapêuticoRESUMO
The Authors carried out retrospective research into bacterial enteritis observed during the past 5 years (Jan. 1982-Dec. 1986) in Pediatric Clinic R of Palermo. The pathogenic agents more frequently isolated were minor salmonellas, followed by E. Coli and shigellas. The first ones showed an incidence almost constant during the five years, while the second and third ones presented epidemic tops in 1982 and 1985. Inside the salmonellas' group it was evidenced a prevalence of S.T. Murium (44.71%), of S. Corvallis (21.13%) and of S. Enteridis (11.38%) and inside the shigellas' group S. Sonnei was more evident (80.43%). A higher incidence of bacterial enteritis appeared: during the period summer-autumn, in patients under one year or undernourished, in those coming from lower social classes, not breast-fed or wrongly fed. An accurate analyses of symptoms has not allowed an aetiological diagnosis, and clinical course of illness was always favourable. The therapy more often used was rehydration, associated with antibiotics only in very serious cases.