Sentences with phrase «developing necrotizing»

Measuring variability of heart rate may identify premature infants at risk of developing necrotizing enterocolitis, a serious inflammatory condition that can lead to death, according to Penn State College of Medicine researchers.

Preterm babies are at greater risk for various types of illness and infection, and micro preemies (babies born before 26 weeks) are especially at risk for developing necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).

In 2013, several infants who consumed a baby formula with xanthan gum tragically passed away after developing necrotizing enterocolitis, a disease where the wall of the intestine is invaded by bacteria, causing infection and inflammation that can ultimately lead to death in infants.

Prior enteral nutrition with human milk protects against intestinal perforation in infants who develop necrotizing enterocolitis.

In a seminal 2009 study in Pediatrics, for example, Greenberg's colleague Michael Cotten showed that each additional day of antibiotics significantly increased the odds that a preemie would develop necrotizing enterocolitis or die.

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Adding «good» bacteria to the guts of infants at risk of developing the life - threatening gut disease necrotizing enterocolitis, for example, significantly reduced the chances that they'd come down with the disease.

Having more EGF in early preterm breast milk is important because babies born at this stage have a greater chance of developing GI problems such as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).

Premature babies are the one group in the developed world who are demonstrably aided by breastmilk because it reduces the risk of necrotizing entercolitis.

These include increased prevalence of a range of infectious diseases and health conditions — ear infections, gastrointestinal infections respiratory infections, necrotizing enterocolitis, sepsis, meningitis, diabetes, childhood cancers, obesity, allergies — formula fed infants grow and develop differently from breastmilk fed infants, including cognitive and neural development.

Infants who are not breastfed are at mildly increased risk of developing acute and chronic diseases, including lower respiratory infection, ear infections, bacteremia, bacterial meningitis, botulism, urinary tract infection and necrotizing enterocolitis.

Research in the United States, Canada, Europe, and other developed countries, among predominantly middle - class populations, provides strong evidence that human milk feeding decreases the incidence and / or severity of diarrhea,1 - 5 lower respiratory infection,6 - 9 otitis media,3,10 - 14bacteremia, 15,16 bacterial meningitis, 15,17 botulism, 18 urinary tract infection, 19 and necrotizing enterocolitis.20, 21 There are a number of studies that show a possible protective effect of human milk feeding against sudden infant death syndrome,22 - 24insulin - dependent diabetes mellitus,25 - 27 Crohn's disease, 28,29 ulcerative colitis, 29 lymphoma, 30,31 allergic diseases,32 - 34 and other chronic digestive diseases.35 - 37 Breastfeeding has also been related to possible enhancement of cognitive development.38, 39

His laboratory is focused on unraveling the molecular mechanisms that underlie several important surgical diseases, including necrotizing enterocolitis and inflammatory bowel disease, and seeks to develop novel therapeutic strategies to prevent or reverse these disease processes.

Pilomatricomas (also known as pilomatrixoma, or the necrotizing and calcifying epithelioma of Malherbe) are hair matrical tumors (developing in the root of the hair), seen in dogs.

IV fluids: SC fluids should not be given to an immunocompromised patient because they are at higher risk of developing a skin necrotizing infection