Letter: Blind babies.

Letter: Parents of battered babies.

First Opinion: Babies, Babies, and More Babies

Babies

This little brochure is an altogether admirable one for the expectant mother and mother. In simple language it deals with the ordinary problems of maternity from a non-technical standpoint. The expectant mother is counselled to consult her medical adviser twice during pregnancy: once within the first three months, to ward off such dangers as eclampsia, osteomalacia and the like; the second time...

Pyritinol for post asphyxial encephalopathy in term babies-- a randomized double-blind controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of pyritinol in improving the neurodevelopmental outcome at one year of age among term babies with post-asphyxial encephalopathy. SETTING Level II Neonatal Nursery and Child Development Centre, Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram. DESIGN Randomised placebo controlled double blind trial. PARTICIPANTS 108 term babies with post-asphyxial encephalopathy, str...

Dextrose gel for neonatal hypoglycaemia (the Sugar Babies Study): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial.

BACKGROUND Neonatal hypoglycaemia is common, and a preventable cause of brain damage. Dextrose gel is used to reverse hypoglycaemia in individuals with diabetes; however, little evidence exists for its use in babies. We aimed to assess whether treatment with dextrose gel was more effective than feeding alone for reversal of neonatal hypoglycaemia in at-risk babies. METHODS We undertook a rand...