Tag: Infant / Child Care

Review shows kangaroo mother care should be initiated within 24 hours of birth and at least for eight hours daily

1,200-IU dose of vitamin D₃ supplementation tied to decreased risk for psychiatric symptoms at ages 6 to 8 years versus 400-IU dosing

Standards identified as minimum requirements for each level of care; facilities encouraged to go beyond minimum

Significant declines seen in patterns of no vaccination, selective vaccination, shot limiting

Newborns with prenatal opioid exposure assigned to vibrating mattress had fewer days of treatment, received less morphine

Febrile infants testing positive for SARS-CoV-2, especially those aged 29 to 60 days, have low prevalence of UTI, bacteremia, bacterial meningitis

Authors say association is age- and severity-dependent

Hospitalization and fatality rates were 26 and 0.1 percent for gastroenteritis, 70 and 1.6 percent for bacteremia, 96 and 4 percent for meningitis

Report describing first case shows transuterine ultrasound-guided fetal embolization eliminates postnatal pathology

Eat, Sleep, Console care approach reduces the number of days until medical readiness for hospital discharge