Sentences with phrase «infants are at a higher risk»

Research suggests that premature infants are at higher risk of cardiovascular problems later in life.

Formula - fed infants are at a high risk of exposure to life - threatening bacterial contamination.

Young infants are at a higher risk of dying from this infection than any other age group.

First, parents need to know whether their infant is at high risk of developing a peanut allergy, Assa'ad says.

Topics include: avoiding certain foods during pregnancy and breastfeeding; how to know if an infant is at high risk of developing food allergies; how to introduce solids to a high - risk infant; what formulas are recommended for high - risk infants; and if food allergies can be prevented.

Since premature infants are at high risk of neonatal complications, particularly affecting the brain and respiratory and digestive systems, survival rates without serious neonatal disease are lower.

Vinny Smith, Chief Executive of Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) said: «Young infants are at higher risk of life threatening meningitis than any other age group.

In addition, the authors found high concentrations of pertussis antibodies in infants during the first 2 months of life, a period during which infants are at the highest risk of pertussis - associated illness or death.

It is also critical that supplemental feeding be extremely small in volume and frequent (every hour) as these infants are at high risk of aspiration pneumonia when more than a drop or two at a time is fed.

Not exact matches

One major study from the UK found that by eating a peanut - containing snack, infants who were at high risk for developing a peanut allergy were able to prevent developing the allergy.

Infants aged < 9 months are at higher risk for developing encephalitis from yellow fever vaccine, which is a live virus vaccine.

From my read of it, these guidelines are particularly targeted at infants with higher risk for allergies (i.e. those with parents / siblings who have allergies).

There is also evidence that premature babies are at higher risk when given artificial infant food.

Rather a good way of preventing food allergies is exclusively breast - feeding a high - risk infant for at least four months; this decreases the chance of having certain allergies during the first two years of life.

Babies younger than 4 months, are at the highest risk for SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and being overheated is one possible cause.

Infants and toddlers have the highest risk because they have the highest level of exposure at a time when risks to reproduction and neural development are greatest.

Some foods have proteins that are so different that if you delay feeding it to an infant until they are over a year, like peanuts and shellfish, they will be at a higher risk of developing an allergy to it.

While Babycenter states that these commercially produced foods are safe for babies to consume, since they have been produced at temperatures high enough to kill the spores, Kidshealth.org and some child health experts warn that because the spores are so heat - resistant, there could still be a small risk of contracting infant botulism.

When infants are not optimally breastfed they are at risk for increased illness such as higher rates of gastrointestinal and respiratory infections, allergies, cancer, obesity, cardiovascular disease and diabetes and even death.

What researchers do know is that certain factors put infants at higher risk of SIDS, and that all caregivers, perhaps grandparents, in particular, need to know how to reduce the risk of SIDS.

For this reason, artificial supplements should not be given to infants who are at a high risk for allergies.

The effectiveness of these intervention strategies was demonstrated by a study in the Netherlands in which 100 6 - month - old infants who displayed high levels of irritability shortly after birth were deemed to be at risk of developing insecure attachment.

There isn't data confirming the safety or lack of safety of bed - sharing multiples, but other studies have shown that bed - sharing with other children places an infant at higher risk of SIDS.

It may also help explain why the US does comparatively well for perinatal outcomes but very badly in terms of infant mortality, if massive, high tech, emergency, intervention, which is readily available, has kicked the can down the road, past the neonatal period, but the baby dies at some later date (and it will be higher risk for the rest of infancy, at least, due to prematurity).

Many twins and multiples are born premature, and the risk of SIDS is higher for premature babies than for infants born at full term.

Looking at preterm birth, which is a risk factor for newborn infant loss, a 2003 study examined 1,962 women and found that those who reported high counts of anxiety were more likely to experience preterm labor and subsequent birth.

As for those who believe that sleep - training harms infants, we have no research evidence that babies who are sleep - trained are at higher risk of behavioral and psychiatric disorders later in life.

This is especially true for infants that are2 to 4 months old; this is the time when they are at the highest risk for SIDS.

A prospective study8 of a Tasmanian high - risk birth cohort of 6213 infants reported no increase in cyanosis, pallor, or breathing symptoms at age 5 weeks for infants sleeping in the supine position, and, in fact, the risk for these symptoms was increased among infants sleeping in the prone position.

As we continue to identify risk factors for lactation insufficiency (variations in infant oral anatomy, hypoplastic breast appearance or insufficient glandular development, high pre-pregnant body mass index, insulin resistance, other hormonal irregularities), it is extremely important that mothers, whether they believe they are «at risk» or not, identify appropriate breastfeeding support before their babies are born.

As a result of the LEAP study, groups such as the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Canadian Society of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, now state that for infants at high risk, there is strong evidence to support the introduction of peanut between 4 and 11 months.

Very young infants, infants born prematurely, and infants whose bodies have trouble fighting off germs are at highest risk.

Infants born before the 37th week of pregnancy are premature, which places them at a higher risk for complications than full - term babies, explains HealthyChildren.org, a website published by the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Infants are most at risk: Their BPA exposure can be 12 times higher than adults.

And some studies suggest co-sleeping puts babies at higher risk for SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome), especially when parents drink too much, smoke or fail to make sure the bed is safe.

You report that starting your infant at 4 months can lead to allergies and digestive issues, but if you are up to date on current evidence, early introduction of high risk foods can actually prevent allergies.

If an infant is determined to be high risk, peanut - containing foods should be introduced in a specialist's office as an oral food challenge after peanut skin testing, or not at all if the child has too large of a skin test, which may suggest the child already has peanut allergy.

Kenneth K. Chen, MD, is the director of the Division of Obstetric and Consultative Medicine and co-director of the Integrated Program for High Risk Pregnancy at Women & Infants Hospital.

Swaddle means Safe Babies who sleep on their stomachs are at higher risk of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).

The psychosocial outcome receiving the most attention from researchers is problem behaviour, with most studies finding perceived negative reactivity in infancy to predict problem behaviour in childhood33, 34 and adolescent.35 Specifically, infants prone to high levels of fear, frustration, and sadness, as well as difficulty recovering from such distress, were found to be at increased risk for internalizing and externalizing problem behaviours according to parental and / or teacher report.

A study conducted by researcher at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children of 2184 children determined that the risk of asthma and wheezing was approximately 50 per cent higher for formula fed infants when compared to their breastfed counterparts.

For example, four - month - olds who show high levels of motor activity and distress, called high - reactive, are likely to become inhibited to the unfamiliar at 1 - 2 years old and report more unrealistic worries and more frequent bouts of depression at age 18, whereas low - reactive infants are likely to become uninhibited to the unfamiliar in the second year and are at a slightly higher risk for asocial behaviour at age 18.

A physician may recommend fluoride supplementation for infants who are at least six months of age who are at high risk of deficiency.

Infants conceived through assisted reproductive technology (ART) may be at even higher risk of complications (Murray 2014); consequently, admission to the neonatal unit is more likely.

Infants aged 2 to 6 months are at highest risk, and children 6 to 12 months are still at risk.

And this inflammatory use of a «relative percentage risk» rather than relative risk or absolute risk... for example, even if assuming the writer's awkward data is valid, you can to look at infant living rates and see 99.6 % vs 98.4 %, which means there's only a 1.2 % higher risk of bad outcome from at - home birth than hospital.

All sorts of hilarious errors — using one type of data (ICD10 code data from «white healthy women» and essentially comparing the best possible data from one set of hospital data related to low - risk births to the worst possible single set of data related to high - risk at - home births)-- if you use the writer's same data source for hospital births but include all comers in 2007 - 2010 (not just low - risk healthy white women), the infant death rate is actually 6.14 per 1000, which is «300 % higher death rate than at - home births!»

Preterm and low birth weight infants are also at higher risk.

In their study, Sicherer and the other doctors tested more than 500 infants who were at high risk for peanut allergies.

However, in contrast, the observational arm of this study (in which infants were not at high risk of developing atopic disease) did not demonstrate differences in the incidence of atopic dermatitis.