BACKGROUND: Invasive Cronobacter infection is rare, devastating, and epidemiologically/microbiologically linked to powdered infant formulas (PIFs). In 2002–2004, the US Food and Drug Administration advised health care professionals to minimize PIF and powdered human milk fortifier (HMF)’s preparation, feeding, and storage times and avoid feeding them to hospitalized premature or immunocompromis...

BACKGROUND: Invasive Cronobacter infection is rare, devastating, and epidemiologically/microbiologically linked to powdered infant formulas (PIFs). In 2002–2004, the US Food and Drug Administration advised health care professionals to minimize PIF and powdered human milk fortifier (HMF)’s preparation, feeding, and storage times and avoid feeding them to hospitalized premature or immunocompromis...

BACKGROUND: Invasive Cronobacter infection is rare, devastating, and epidemiologically/microbiologically linked to powdered infant formulas (PIFs). In 2002–2004, the US Food and Drug Administration advised health care professionals to minimize PIF and powdered human milk fortifier (HMF)’s preparation, feeding, and storage times and avoid feeding them to hospitalized premature or immunocompromis...

treatment which I advocate has proved successful in my practice. Let us first consider the European, or physiological, method of artificial feeding of infants. Human milk contains 1.5 per cent, of proteins, 3.5 per cent, of fat, and 6.5 per cent, of sugar. European cow's milk contains 3 per cent, of proteins, 3.5 per cent, of fat, and 4.5 per cent, of sugar. Ordinarily, the amount of proteins i...

A Delicate woman, the third day after an easy labour' with her third child, was attacked "with peritonaeal inflammation. The spirits were considerably depressed; the sense of debility extreme. Pressure on the abdomen, especially just above the pubis, caused most acute pain. Pulse quick, small, and hard. Tongue white; face flushed ; bowels constipated; lochia suppressed; secretion of milk stoppe...

In the left hypochondriac region there was a wound, more than ail inch and a half long and nearly three quarters of an inch wide, running obliquely inwards. This wound communicated with the colon, and there was a large, hard, circumscribed swelling around it. All her stools passed by this opening, and none whatever by the anus. She appeared much distressed, and moved about with difficulty. The ...

urine which contained much albumen. He was put on the following mixture three timeS day:? Ammonii chloridi .. grs. 30. Extracti glycyrrhizse liquidi .. min. 30. Aquam menthae pippritse .. ad ?i. j Later, the dose of ammonium chloride was increaS?j to grs. 40 and it was continued without any untowa symptoms. g0 In addition compound jalap powder?grs. 30 to grsj ?was given bi-weekly according to t...

The hypercalcaemia in association with trisomy 21 (Down's syndrome) is often not recognised and therefore underdiagnosed. Patients present the tetrad of hypercalcaemia, Down’s syndrome, renal impairment, nephrocalcinosis. 1-3 
 A 30-month old child syndrome had a long history nonspecific symptoms, constipation feeding difficulties. He was on excessive bottle feeds, taking 14 bottles daily,...

Objective. This study evaluated patient characteristics, milk intake, and associated lab findings of children 6 months to 5 years old, admitted to a children's hospital with severe iron-deficiency anemia (IDA). Methods. A chart review was conducted on patients admitted with microcytic anemia (hemoglobin concentration less than 7 g/dL), accompanied by a low serum ferritin and/or low serum iron l...

BACKGROUND Coffee has been reported to be rich in antioxidants, with both acute and chronic consumption leading to enhanced blood antioxidant capacity. High-fat feeding is known to result in excess production of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species, promoting a condition of postprandial oxidative stress. METHODS We tested the hypothesis that coffee intake following a high-fat meal would atten...