We report the first example, to our knowledge, of a frictional keratosis from exuberant sucking in a breastfeeding infant. A 2-month-old girl was referred for evaluation of a well-demarcated, nonsloughing white keratotic plaque of the lower lip mucosa, just inside the vermilion border. The plaque had a slightly irregular surface, had no surrounding erythema, and was the only such plaque in the ...

This study determined patterns of suction cycles by recording sucking pressure in full-term infants, normal pre-term infants and newborns with pathology (hypoxia at birth). Associations between these patterns and some clinical parameters were established in order to evaluate feeding capacity for the purpose of guiding specific stimulation and aiding hospital discharge in better health condition...

Previously published results from neonatal brain evoked response potential (ERP) experiments revealed different brain responses to the single word "baby" depending on whether it was recorded by the mother or an unfamiliar female. These results are consistent with behavioral preference studies in which infants altered pacifier sucking to contingently activate recordings of the maternal vs. an un...

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 ...

The effect of insect vectors on avian exposure to infection by pathogens remains poorly studied. Here, we used an insect repellent treatment to reduce the number of blood-sucking flying insects in blue tit Cyanistes caeruleus nests and examined its effect on nestling health status measured as body mass, nestling phytohaemagglutinin (PHA) response and blood parasite prevalence. We found that (i)...

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between ear infections and dentition, sucking habits, pacifier sucking and atopic and allergic diseases in a historic cohort survey. The series comprised 944 5-year-old children representing about 3/4 of the whole age cohort. The parents completed a questionnaire that asked for details of the children's ear infections, sucking habits and ...

Oral habits have occupied the attention of psychologists, psychiatrists, and dentists for more than 100 years. Unfortunately, little knowledge of etiology is based on sound scientific data. Wolfenstein (1953) has reviewed and charted the course of advice given in the editions of the bulletin Infant Care which have appeared regularly since the first edition in 1914. She has charted how child hea...

The purpose of this study was to clarify the genetic contribution to finger-sucking and nail-biting in childhood using the largest databases available on Japanese twins. The subjects were 1131 pairs of 12-year-old twin children, consisting of 1057 males and 1205 females. All data were gathered by maternal questionnaire, and responses to the questionnaire were checked in the medical interview. T...

Due to neurologic immaturity, premature infants must be fed by tube until approximately 34 gestational weeks and many have subsequent problems with transition to oral feeding. In the United States, infants whose only problem is ineffective feeding remain in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at an average cost of $2000/day until independent nippling with regular weight gain is achieved. This is a...

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between bottle feeding and prevalence rates of increased overjet and Class 2 primary canine relationship. The sample consisted of 911 children (461 boys, 450 girls) aged 3 (13.9%), 4 (40.8%), 5 (34%) and 6 (11.3%) years, with complete primary dentition. Information about nutritive and nonnutritive (pacifier and/or digit) sucking habits wa...