juanita hernandez is an 18-month-old hispanic, the younger of two children. juanita was at the 25th percentile for height and weight at birth, but both measurements fell to just below the 5th percentile during her first year. for the last 6 months however, her rate of growth has been normal and her height and weight curves lie parallel to just below the 5th percentile. juanita appears quite sma...

BCG vaccination has an important role in preventing the serious forms of tuberculosis in children.adverse effects of BCG vaccination are uncommon in immunocompetent children.one of the side effects of BCG vaccine is its potential for produsing hypersensitivity to tuberculin and difficulties in interpretation of PPD test results.Knowledge of the normal variations in the induration of Mantoux(PPD...

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) accumulates in the brain during the 1st and 2nd years of life. The objective of this study was to see if an increased content of DHA in breast-milk via maternal fish oil (FO)-supplementation affects mental development in term infants. one hundred twenty-two Danish mothers with a habitual fish intake below the population median were randomized to 4.5 g.d(-1) of FO or o...

BACKGROUND Careful preoperative assessment and adequate planning of an appropriate anesthetic are the cornerstones safe pediatric anesthetic practice. A prospective study was carried out in pediatric surgical patients to identify and quantitate both intra-operative and post anesthesia recovery room complications, management and outcome. METHODS Two hundred and seventy children, aged day 1-16 ...

Fifty- two low birth weight infants were examined with a minimal age of 2 years and nine months old.
 Neurologic abnormalities very high (38.8%). Convulsions predominate the other (21.2%). followed by respectively cerebral palsy, multiple handicapped, mental retardation, behaviour disorders, speech problems, hearing defect abnormalities.
 Neuroiogic impairments found more in group chi...

OBJECTIVE To compare growth and body composition in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) with normal healthy term infants during the first year of life. DESIGN Twenty nine preterm infants with BPD (mean (SD) gestational age 27.1 (1.6) weeks; birth weight 852 (173) g) were followed prospectively. Anthropometry and body composition determined by total body electrical conductivi...

In this study, the seroprevalences of measles, mumps, and rubella antibodies in infants were determined to assess the immunization strategy and control measures for these infectious diseases. Serum samples from infants < 1 year of age and their mothers were collected to measure the concentrations of specific IgG antibodies to measles, mumps, and rubella by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. For...