Bone Maturation as a Predictive Factor of Catch-Up Growth During the First Year of Life in Born Small for Gestational Age Infants: A Prospective Study

Background: Diarrhoea is one of the major and most frequently encounter problem by the paediatrician. Diarrhoeal disease is the second leading cause of death n children under 5 yrs and is responsible for killing around 5,25,000 children every year. In low income counties, children under three years old, experience on an average three episodes of diarrhoea every year. Each episode deprives the child of the nutrition necessary for growth. Current study was conducted to assess maternal knowledge, attitude over practice regarding diarrhoeal disease.Methods: The present study is a prospective study, carried out at department of paediatrics, at Sri Guru Ram Das University of Medical Sciences and Research Amritsar from Jan 2016—Jan 2018 over period of 2 years. Total 25-0 mothers were intervened to assess their knowledge, attitude and practices during episodes of diarrhoea on basis of educational qualification of mothers, data were divided into three categories: Illiterate, moderately educated including mothers having qualification up to graduation, highly educated-mothers who did post-graduation or some professional education.Results: Total 250 mothers were included in the study with prior informed consent and question were asked as per preformed questionnaire and vernacular language and English too. In present study, it was observed that maximum number of diarrhoea causes 77.76% were seen in first year of life and there was higher incidence (74.4%) among male children. Incidence of diarrhoea was 67.6% among children of illiterate mother in contrast to 12% among a mother of having higher qualification.Conclusions: Finding of present study indicated low proportion of maternal knowledge and practice about etiologies and management of diarrhoeal disease among children under 5 years of age. Programme should focus on provided awareness to patients and education of mother should focus on symptoms of dehydration, knowledge on ORS, hoe to prepare an ORS, prevention on danger sign and diseases. rural population.

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Infant Feeding and Infectious Disease

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.86.5.806 ◽

1990 ◽

Vol 86 (5) ◽

pp. 806-806

Author(s):

FRED AGRE

Keyword(s):

Infectious Disease ◽

Prospective Study ◽

Infant Feeding ◽

Breast Feeding ◽

First Year ◽

Prospective Data ◽

Infectious Illness ◽

A Prospective Study ◽

First Year Of Life

To the Editor.— In the article "Relationship Between Infant Feeding and Infectious Illness: A Prospective Study of Infants during the First Year of Life" the authors comment on the methodologic failures of other studies.1 These failures include: (1) prospective data on infection and feeding, (2) specifying what is meant by infectious illness and breast-feeding, (3) controlling for other variables, and (4) exposure to illness through time. Such a study accounting for the above methodologic flaws was conducted by me and reported in the American Journal of Diseases of Children.2

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Breast-Feeding and Infectious Illness, Power and Confidence Intervals

PEDIATRICS ◽

10.1542/peds.88.5.1079a ◽

1991 ◽

Vol 88 (5) ◽

pp. 1079-1080

Author(s):

JUDY HOPKINSON

Keyword(s):

Prospective Study ◽

Confidence Intervals ◽

Infant Feeding ◽

Breast Feeding ◽

First Year ◽

Infectious Illness ◽

A Prospective Study ◽

First Year Of Life ◽

The Impact ◽

Breast Fed

The article "Relationship Between Infant Feeding and Infectious Illness: A Prospective Study of Infants During the First Year of Life" by Rubin et al in the April issue of Pediatrics was provocative. Like Mulford, I too am concerned about the definitions of breast-feeding used in the study. Breast-feeding and formula-feeding are defined in such a way that the study actually examines the impact of the degree of breast-feeding on health of breast-fed infants. This may be an important issue in Denmark where the incidence of breast-feeding at 1 month is more than 90%.

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Weight Growth Charts from Birth to 6 Years of Age in Japanese Triplets

Twin Research and Human Genetics ◽

10.1375/twin.11.6.641 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 11 (6) ◽

pp. 641-647 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Yoshie Yokoyama ◽

Masako Sugimoto ◽

Karri Silventoinen ◽

Jaakko Kaprio

Keyword(s):

Gestational Age ◽

Medical Records ◽

Growth Curves ◽

First Year ◽

Growth Charts ◽

Weight Growth ◽

Growth Standard ◽

Catch Up ◽

First Year Of Life ◽

And Child Health

AbstractWe analyzed the characteristics of weight growth and present the weight growth charts from birth to 6 years of age in Japanese triplets. The study included 366 mothers and their 1098 triplet children, who were born between 1978 and 2006. Data were collected through a mailed questionnaire sent to the mothers asking for information recorded in medical records. For these births, data on triplets' weight growth, gestational age, sex, parity, and maternal age at delivery were obtained from records in the Maternal and Child Health Handbooks, which is provided by the authorities after a report of pregnancy. Birthweight proved to be the strongest contribution on weight of triplets from 1 to 6 years of age. In addition, gestational age was also a significant contributing factor to weight from birth to 6 years of age. Moreover, males had a higher weight from birth to 6 years of age than females. Compared to the 50th percentile of the growth standard for the general population of Japan, the weight deficit of the triplets was more than 40% at birth (male, –1.28 kg; female, –1.28 kg), decreased within the first 1 year of age, and fluctuated between 4% and 9% until 6 years of age (male, –1.82 kg; female, –1.78 kg). In conclusion, triplets have lower birth weight than singletons and in spite of the rapid catch-up growth during first year of life they are behind singletons even in mid-childhood. This study provides growth curves for use in triplets.

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