Yüce A, Dalgıç B, Çullu-Çokuğraş F, Çokuğraş H, Kansu A, Alptekin-Sarıoğlu A, Şekerel BE. Cow`s milk protein allergy awareness and practice among Turkish pediatricians: A questionnaire-survey. Turk J Pediatr 2017; 59: 233-243. Region-specific recommendations for the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cow`s milk protein allergy (CMPA) are not available in Turkey. This cross-sectional questi...

OBJECTIVE To compare the effect of traditional and "baby-led" breastfeeding advice on early infant weight gain and exclusive breastfeeding rates. DESIGN Longitudinal cohort study: part prospective, part retrospective. SETTING One UK general practice. PARTICIPANTS 63 exclusively breastfed infants in two cohorts: 32 babies born before and 31 babies born after a change in breastfeeding advic...

Background Infant formula means a breast-milk substitute specially manufactured to satisfy, by itself, the nutritional requirements of infants during the first months of life up to the introduction of appropriate complementary feeding. We aimed to determine the cost and burden of formula feeding on the family in Al-Amara city, Iraq. Materials and Methods A cross-sectional analytic study was car...

Background In the early months of life, Breastfeeding increases chance of survival, reduces recovery time after disease and mortality due to infections such as diarrhea and acute respiratory infections. However, infants who are exclusively breast-fed for more than 6 months in developing countries may be at increased risk of anemia. Therefore, the aim of study was to assess the relatio...

AIMS Characterization of breast cancer patients with micrometastases in sentinel lymph node (SLN) and establish differences between micrometastatic breast cancers with additional metastatic lymph nodes (LNS) versus no other lymph node invasion. METHODS Analysis of 30 breast cancers, N1mi or pN0(i+), diagnosed and treated in our department from July 2000 to July 2008. RESULTS Micrometastases...

Atopy can be defined as the genetically determined risk to develop allergic disease. Avoidance of one specific allergen may decrease the risk for sensitization against this allergen, but it will not affect atopy. Our aim was to investigate if exclusive breast-feeding is associated with atopic dermatitis during the first 5 years of life. Data on 200 children were taken from parental-administered...

AIMS To describe incidence, presentation, treatment and short term outcomes of severe neonatal hypernatraemia (SNH, sodium ≥160 mmol/l). METHODS Prospective, population based surveillance study over 13 months using the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit. Cases were >33 weeks gestation at birth, fed breast or formula milk and <28 days of age at presentation. RESULTS Of 62 cases of SNH repo...

Tamoxifen (TAM) has been prescribed for decades and aromatase inhibitors (AIs) have been used since the early 2000s in preventing subsequent breast cancer. However, outside of clinical trials, the effectiveness of AIs is not established. We examined the long-term risk of subsequent breast cancer among survivors treated with TAM and AIs in a large health plan. The study included 22,850 survivors...