Data were prospectively obtained from exclusively breast-fed healthy term neonates at birth and from healthy mothers with no obstetric complication to determine risk factors for excess weight loss and hypernatremia in exclusively breast-fed infants. Thirty-four neonates with a weight loss > or = 10% were diagnosed between April 2001 and January 2005. Six of 18 infants who were eligible for the ...

The postpartum period is a that very prone to complications for the mother and baby which if not handled properly can cause problems even death of baby. maternal mortality rate in Indonesia 2020 4,627 cases. It estimated about 50% deaths occur during puerperium, one caused by breast infections due swelling or engorgement, mastitis, abscesses. Therefore, prevent this, some complementary care be ...

90% of breast milk dams occur in mothers who give birth for the first time, swelling often occurs on second to fourth day after delivery. The breasts begin feel full and hard, causing pain. In weeks, if mother does not get information how deal with problems her breasts, it can cause stop breastfeeding. Breast engorgement is actually a physiological thing that be experienced by postpartum but go...

Although milky nipple discharge appears frequently in infants, bloody nipple discharge is a very rare finding. We experienced a 4-month-old, breast-fed infant who showed bilateral bloody nipple discharge with no signs of infection, engorgement, or hypertrophy. The infant's hormonal examination and coagulation tests were normal, and an ultrasound examination revealed mammary duct ectasia. The sy...

Seventy-eight mothers who did not want to breast-feed their newborn infants took part in a trial to assess whether metergoline could effectively suppress puerperal lactation. Metergoline 8 mg/day was given to 69 women within 24 hours after delivery and continued for five days to prevent lactation. The remaining nine women were given a course of metergoline once lactation had started. The drug w...

Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is an inflammatory disease characterized by recurrent painful ulcers, eventually leading to cribriform scars. PG mostly a diagnosis of exclusion with neutrophilic skin infiltration. We present case 35-year-old female patient whose first presentation occurred in the trimester pregnancy, which recurred after discontinuation breastfeeding. The also had history taking prol...

The duration of tick attachment is one factor associated with risk for human infection caused by several tick-borne pathogens. We measured tick engorgement indices at known time intervals after tick attachment and used these indices to determine the length of time that ticks were attached to tick-bite victims in selected Rhode Island and Pennsylvania communities where the agents of Lyme disease...

The main bronchi of excised dog lobes were obstructed with beads, 5 to 6 cm from their origin so that they did not communicate with the peripheral air spaces. Both pulmonary artery and vein were cannulated and both pulmonary vascular pressures were controlled. With the lobe held at constant transpulmonary pressure, bronchial pressure-volume curves were studied during acute pulmonary vascular en...