scholarly journals Antibiotic treatment in infants

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Yvan Vandenplas
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
The Body ◽  
Antibiotic Administration ◽  
Gastrointestinal Microbiome ◽  
Intestinal Dysbiosis ◽  
Antibiotic Associated Diarrhea ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel ◽  
Infants And Young Children

The gastrointestinal microbiome is crucial for the development of a balanced immune system. Antibiotics are frequently administered to infants and cause intestinal dysbiosis. Dysbiosis, also called dysbacteriosis, is a term for a microbial imbalance or maladaptation on or inside the body, such as an impaired gastro-intestinal microbiota. The necessity of administration of antibiotics should be well thought through because of short-term adverse effects such as antibiotic associated-diarrhea. This narrative review highlights the long-term health consequences of antibiotic administration to infants and young children, including overweight, inflammatory bowel syndrome, and allergic disease.   Conclusion:  The pros and cons of antibiotic administration to infants and young children should be carefully weighed.

Antibiotic treatment in infants: effect on the gastro-intestinal microbiome and long term consequences

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linde Peeters ◽  
Siel Daelemans ◽  
Yvan Vandenplas
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Intestinal Microbiome ◽  
Antibiotic Administration ◽  
Gastrointestinal Microbiome ◽  
Intestinal Dysbiosis ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel ◽  
Antibiotic Associated Diarrhoea ◽  
Infants And Young Children

The gastrointestinal microbiome is crucial for the development of a balanced immune system. Antibiotics are frequently administered to infants and cause intestinal dysbiosis. This narrative review highlights the long term health consequences of antibiotic administration to infants and young children. The necessity of administration of antibiotics should be well considered, since an association with short term consequences such as antibiotic associated diarrhoea and long term adverse effects such as overweight, inflammatory bowel syndrome, allergic disease  have been reported.  Conclusion:  The pros and cons of antibiotic administration to infants and young children should be considered.

scholarly journals Antibiotic treatment in infants: effect on the gastro-intestinal microbiome and long term consequences

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linde Peeters ◽  
Siel Daelemans ◽  
Yvan Vandenplas
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Intestinal Microbiome ◽  
Antibiotic Administration ◽  
Gastrointestinal Microbiome ◽  
Intestinal Dysbiosis ◽  
Pros And Cons ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel ◽  
Antibiotic Associated Diarrhoea ◽  
Infants And Young Children

The gastrointestinal microbiome is crucial for the development of a balanced immune system. Antibiotics are frequently administered to infants and cause intestinal dysbiosis. This narrative review highlights the long term health consequences of antibiotic administration to infants and young children. The necessity of administration of antibiotics should be well considered, since an association with short term consequences such as antibiotic associated diarrhoea and long term adverse effects such as overweight, inflammatory bowel syndrome, allergic disease  have been reported.  Conclusion:  The pros and cons of antibiotic administration to infants and young children should be considered.

scholarly journals Macrolevel Approaches to Improve the Availability of Complementary Foods

2003 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chessa K. Lutter
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Target Population ◽  
Publicly Funded ◽  
Complementary Foods ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Infants And Young Children

Large numbers of infants and young children suffer from the short- and long-term health effects of poor breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices. Strategies to improve the availability of and access to low-cost fortified complementary foods can play an important corresponding role to that of behavior change in improving nutritional status of young children. However, the nutritional quality of complementary foods used in publicly funded programs is not always optimal, and such programs are costly and reach only a tiny fraction of those who could benefit. To broadly reach the target population, such foods need to be commercially available at affordable prices and promoted in a way that generates demand for their purchase. A sensible long-term policy for the promotion of low-cost fortified complementary foods calls for attention to their nutritional formulations and cost, the economics of production, and the legislative, regulatory, and competitive framework in which marketing occurs. This paper provides information on how to improve the nutritional formulations of fortified complementary foods and outlines the necessary conditions for a market approach to their production and promotion.

scholarly journals Should long-term prophylactic use of probiotics for infants and young children give cause for concern?

2008 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 171-176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Siamak P. Yazdankhah ◽  
Judith A. Narvhus ◽  
Merete Eggesbø ◽  
Tore Midtvedt ◽  
Jørgen Lassen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Prophylactic Use ◽  
Infants And Young Children

Long-term enteral nutrition in infants and young children with chronic renal failure

1999 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 870-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. E. Ledermann ◽  
Vanessa Shaw ◽  
Richard S. Trompeter
Keyword(s):  
Renal Failure ◽  
Chronic Renal Failure ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Enteral Nutrition ◽  
Infants And Young Children

FEROCIOUS FERRETS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 617-617
Author(s):  
Edgar K. Marcuse
Keyword(s):  
Young Children ◽  
Great Plains ◽  
Ground Beef ◽  
The Body ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Mustela Putorius ◽  
Mustela Nigripes ◽  
The Face ◽  
Tail Tip ◽  
Infants And Young Children

Some 33 infants and young children have been reported in California as having been attacked by pet European ferrets (descendants of the European polecat, Mustela putorius, not to be confused with the endangered black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes, of the Great Plains). The animals seem attracted to babies, perhaps due to odors resembling those of suckling rabbits. Typically, attacks are made when parents are absent or asleep; the ferret escapes its cage and jumps into the baby's crib. One infant died; others nearly bled to death. One lost her nose, another half of both ears. Up to hundreds of bites were rapidly inflicted on all parts of the face, the result resembling ground beef according to some observers, although all exposed parts of the body are attacked as well. Older children and adults were bitten on the face and extremities, the animal often holding on tenaciously until killed or pried loose. Bites may be unreported to avoid loss of illegal ferrets. Sometimes ferrets are confused with weasels due to inability to differentiate them. Ferrets are more massive. Weasels and European ferrets differ in length (inches from nose tip to tail tip), weight and color as follows: Weasels—7½ to 22 in, 1½ to 11 oz, brown above, white or yellow below. May turn white in winter. End of tail black throughout year. Ferret—17½ to 22 in, 1 to 6 lb, yellow-buff undercoat overlaid with blackish guard hairs. Blackish mask, limbs and tail (entire length). May be albino.

scholarly journals Nevirapine- Versus Lopinavir/Ritonavir-Based Antiretroviral Therapy in HIV-Infected Infants and Young Children: Long-term Follow-up of the IMPAACT P1060 Randomized Trial

2016 ◽  
Vol 63 (8) ◽  
pp. 1113-1121 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Barlow-Mosha ◽  
Konstantia Angelidou ◽  
Jane Lindsey ◽  
Moherndran Archary ◽  
Mark Cotton ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Antiretroviral Therapy ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Randomized Trial ◽  
Long Term Follow Up ◽  
Infants And Young Children
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