OBJECTIVE To study the effect of milk odor on nonnutritive sucking by premature newborns. DESIGN Blinded, crossover study of the effects of milk vs sham odor on nonnutritive sucking. SETTING Urban neonatal intensive care unit. PATIENTS Twenty-nine premature newborns with gestational age of 29 to 36 weeks. INTERVENTION Fourteen subjects were tested with fortified breast milk odor (group ...

OBJECTIVES To review the history of pacifiers and to compile a multidisciplinary literature review, searching for pros and cons with the purpose of providing health professionals with arguments when parents request guidance. SOURCES History and art books, as well as non-medical literature and museums were used in the historical survey. Multidisciplinary data were collected from MEDLINE, LILAC...

DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Teaching paediatric hospital-Instituto de Medicina Integral Prof. Fernando Figueira (IMIP), Recife, Northeast Brazil. PARTICIPANTS 378 of 536 infants admitted in paediatric wards from April to October 2009 were daily assessed during hospital stay until the first episode of nosocomial diarrhoea (ND), death or discharge. Infants with community-acquired...

BACKGROUND Actual caries figures emphasize the need to identify the risk indicators involved in the disease's development. The hypothesis that certain risk indicators might affect the dynamic evolution of the caries process was assessed; to clarify this premise, a cross-sectional survey was performed in school children. METHODS A total of 390 subjects aged 6-8 years old were randomly selected...

Introduction: Premature infants are born prior to the development of cardiovascular, respiratory, muscular, and central nervous systems. A significant number of these infants experience oral feeding problems. In this study, we investigated the effects of empty breast and pacifier sucking on the growth of preterm infants in Children and Shariati Hospitals of Bandar Abbas. Methods: In this cli...