Archive for the ‘newborn’ Category

Effects of Melatonin Treatment in Septic Newborns

January 20, 2007

I am sending you a link for an-in my opinion extremely- life saving treeatment in newborns
and who knows , also in older people]
one seldom sees such dramatic results in medicine.
this article should never be “needed”-B”H- for any one’s child ,but it is good to print it out and keep it at hand ,in case you know any child in such a condition.

Effects of Melatonin Treatment in Septic Newborns

http://www.pedresearch.org/cgi/content/full/50/6/756

At 72 h after the diagnosis of sepsis, 3 of 10 non-melatonin treated
children had died, while all the melatonin-treated newborns survived,
and continue to do so. [quoted from the article]

colour [color] of bile vomit in a newborn

January 20, 2007

Conclusions There is little agreement about the colour of bile vomit in a newborn. It is more pertinent to ask parents about the colour of vomit rather than whether it contained bile. Many general practitioners and parents do not recognise green as an appropriate colour for bile in the vomit of newborns, which may delay surgical referral . Though yellow vomit does not exclude intestinal obstruction, and requires expeditious referral.