Sentences with phrase «for necrotizing»

Specific treatment for necrotizing enterocolitis will be determined by your baby's doctor based on the following:

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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.

Baby Phil held on for seven weeks until he died of necrotizing enterocolitis, an inflammation of the intestines that mostly afflicts preterm babies.

A reduction in the risk of SIDS, asthma, childhood leukemia, diabetes, gastroenteritis, otitis media (ear infections), LRTIs (pneumonia, bronchitis, etc), necrotizing enterocolitis, and obesity are just some of the protective benefits for babies.

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).

«Human milk is especially critical for premature and sick infants, who are at tenfold greater risk for acquiring devastating intestinal infections, such as necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), if they are fed formula instead of human milk.»

The risk of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), an excruciatingly painful bowel disease that is the number two cause of death for preemies, is reduced by 77 % with exclusive breastfeeding.

They are also at greater risk for rare but serious conditions such as severe lower respiratory infections, leukemia, necrotizing enterocolitis, and sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).5 Breastfeeding is also good for moms, lowering the risk for breast cancer, ovarian cancer, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.6, 7

Excluding type 2 diabetes (because of insufficient data), we conducted a cost analysis for all pediatric diseases for which the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality reported risk ratios that favored breastfeeding: necrotizing enterocolitis, otitis media, gastroenteritis, hospitalization for lower respiratory tract infections, atopic dermatitis, sudden infant death syndrome, childhood asthma, childhood leukemia, type 1 diabetes mellitus, and childhood obesity.

For preterm infants, human milk feeding, in particular the woman's own milk, is associated with a reduced risk of necrotizing enterocolitis (18) and other infectious morbidity.

The expert specialists in the Division of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Floating Hospital for Children complete diagnostic and therapeutic care for children with illnesses that range from fairly common sickness like pneumonia to life - threatening, serious conditions like necrotizing faciitis.

The health risks associated with formula feeding for premature infants include increased incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis, 5 delayed brainstem maturation, 6 decreased scoring on cognitive and developmental tests,7 - 10 and decreased visual development.11, 12 Thus, human - milk feeding of premature infants is desirable, and effective strategies to increase breastfeeding rates in this population are needed.

For example, premies who receive infant formula are at much higher risk of necrotizing enterocolitis.

CA - MRSA (Community - acquired MRSA) has now emerged as an epidemic that is responsible for rapidly progressive, fatal diseases including necrotizing pneumonia, severe sepsis and necrotizing fasciitis.

For preemies, infections come fast and furious, but those who receive breast milk are half as likely to suffer from necrotizing enterocolitis as their formula - fed peers.

For example, prebiotics and probiotics frequently are given to premature infants to protect them against NEC, which causes portions of the bowel to necrotize, or die.

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.

In addition to adding cream to the diets of premature infants, since 2009, Texas Children's has significantly reduced its rates of necrotizing enterocolitis, one of the most devastating and potentially fatal diseases a neonate can face, by implementing a human milk feeding protocol for all infants weighing less than 3.3 pounds.

«This is likely important for the rare, but deadly, complications of strep infection such as pneumonia, necrotizing fasciitis and toxic shock syndrome.»

The first step when treating necrotizing fasciitis is for surgeons to cut away the damaged tissue, which can require several operations over several days.

For example, one study showed that giving probiotics to preemies prevented a type of intestinal inflammation called Necrotizing enterocolitis.

For example, when muscles become injured and necrotize, they leak proteins into your bloodstream, causing various health complications.

Since there are conditions thatcan cause similar signs, such as necrotizing pancreatitis, for whichsurgery may not be advisable, it is a difficult call.

A novel herpesvirus associated with necrotizing keratitis in the California sea lion, 35th Annual Conference of The International Association for Aquatic Animal Medicine, April 4 - 9, Galveston, Texas.