Background: Breast milk remains the best start to life in all areas of infants’ development. Cow is for cows and human breast babies.Objectives: This study assessed influence maternal breastfeeding practices on anthropometric status their infant (0-12 months) Arochukwu L.G.A. Abia State.Methods: A total 250 mothers were selected using simple random sampling technique. Data socio-economic/demogr...

BACKGROUND Infant feeding recommendations for HIV-positive mothers differ from recommendations to mothers of unknown HIV-status. The aim of this study was to compare feeding practices, including breastfeeding, between infants and young children of HIV-positive mothers and infants of mothers in the general population of Uganda. METHODS This study compares two cross-sectional surveys conducted ...

The ability of infants to discriminate zero-disparity stimuli from both reverse contrast (rivalrous) and disparate (stereoscopic) stimuli was investigated in a two-alternative, forced-choice, preferential-looking paradigm. Few infants under 4 months of age demonstrated discrimination for any stimulus pairing. Of the infants tested at 4 months of age, approximately 70% preferred zero-disparity s...

A moving cast shadow of the object affects the perception of the object's trajectory in adults [Kersten, D., Mamassian, P., & Knill, D. C. (1997). Moving cast shadow induce apparent motion in depth. Perception, 26, 171-192]. In the present study, we investigated by using a habituation-dishabituation procedure whether infants at 4- to 7-months old discriminate the motion trajectory of a ball fro...

There are few data to support the use of follow-on formulas in infants from the age of 6 months. In a prospective trial in a deprived inner city area of Birmingham 100 infants who were already receiving pasteurised cows' milk by 6 months of age were enrolled and randomised either to receive a follow-on formula or to continue on cows' milk from 6 months until 18 months. At 18 months of age the f...

OBJECTIVE To develop guidelines for performing an initial skeletal survey (SS) for children <24 months of age presenting with bruising in the hospital setting, combining available evidence with expert opinion. METHODS Applying the Rand/UCLA Appropriateness Method, a multispecialty panel of 10 experts relied on evidence from the literature and their own clinical expertise in rating the appropr...

BACKGROUND The neurodevelopmental outcomes of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1)-infected Ugandan infants of nondrug-using mothers were studied using controlled, prospective methodology. METHOD The sample of 436 full-term infants included 79 HIV-infected infants of HIV-1-infected mothers, 241 uninfected infants of HIV-1-infected mothers (seroreverters), and 116 uninfected infants bor...

OBJECTIVES The optimal age for introducing complementary feeding to breast-fed infants may differ depending on the setting. Prolonged exclusive breast-feeding (EBF) protects against infection but may increase the risk of iron deficiency (ID)/anaemia (IDA) in vulnerable infants. The aim of the present study was to compare haemoglobin (Hb), serum ferritin (SF), anaemia (Hb < 11 g/L), ID (SF < 12 ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of supplementing newborn infants with vitamin A on mortality at age 6 months. DESIGN Community based, randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial. SETTING Two rural districts of Tamil Nadu, southern India. PARTICIPANTS 11 619 newborn infants allocated 24 000 IU oral vitamin A or placebo on days 1 and 2 after delivery. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE Primary ou...