BACKGROUND Adequate nutrition during infancy and early childhood is essential to ensure the health, growth and development of children. However, infant feeding practice is suboptimal in Bahir Dar City, Ethiopia. The slum area is a heavily populated urban informal settlement characterized by substandard housing, squalor, with a lack of reliable sanitation services, supply of clean water, reliabl...

We hypothesised that (i) increased feeding motivation will cause sheep to move further apart as a result of individuals trying to find food and (ii) in conditions of high food availability, sheep will move less and show greater social attraction. The effects of both feeding motivation and food availability on spatial distribution was examined in eight groups of food-deprived (high feeding motiv...

OBJECTIVE To identify the maternal, work, and health services factors associated with a short duration of breast-feeding in working mothers. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out between November 1998 and March 1999, among 265 mothers medically insured by (Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, IMSS) Mexican Institute of Social Security, who completed a questionnaire whe...

An improved knowledge of mosquito life history could strengthen malaria vector control efforts that primarily focus on killing mosquitoes indoors using insecticide treated nets and indoor residual spraying. Natural sugar sources, usually floral nectars of plants, are a primary energy resource for adult mosquitoes but their role in regulating the dynamics of mosquito populations is unclear. To d...

Problematic eating behaviours during early childhood could be mediators of poor dietary habits. This study aims to prospectively relate early eating behaviours with fruit and vegetable (F&V) intake and a healthy diet variety score of children aged between 4 and 5 years. Eating behaviours were assessed in three European birth cohorts (Generation XXI from Portugal, ALSPAC from the UK and EDEN fro...

A 4-month-old female infant was admitted to the outpatient clinic and presented with vomiting and poor feeding for weeks. She was born at 35 weeks of gestation with a birth weight of 1900 g to a secundigravida. Neither antenatal anomaly nor perinatal insult was noted. She underwent open repair for EA with TEF in a local hospital when she was 2 days old. After the operation, she tolerated oral f...

introduction: foreign body ingestion is common among children and more common in boys and in children under the age of 3. it can present with a wide variety of symptoms like dysphagia and drooling or symptoms related to the upper aerodigestive tract.   case report: a 20-month-old male presented with refractory croup and poor feeding since 2 weeks. bronchoscopy and esophagoscopy was performed du...

abstract: introduction: neonatal malaria manifests most commonly as fever ,anemia, hepatospleenomegaly, jaundice, loosestools and poor feeding however hyperglycemia and hyperlipedemia associated with malaria is not mentioned in literature. case presenttion : a full term neonate was admitted in december, in n.i.c.u. as fever and anemia with spleenohepatomegaly ,his peripheral smear was positive ...

Food and feeding habits of the Santer Seabream Cheimerius nufar were studied from the Arabian Sea coast of Oman for two years during April 2005-March 2007. The stomach contents consisted of substantial quantities of semi-digested matter and identifiable items like sardines, crab, squid, cuttlefish and other crustacean remains indicating the fish is an active carnivore. There was not much variat...