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Because a growing number of infants survive their neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) stays (Matthews & MacDorman, 2012), more families must interact with medically vulnerable infants in the NICU setting.

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One wonders how many novelists and, for that matter, how many sermonizers are prepared to confront in such detail this difficult fact about the human condition, that sooner or later most of us will be called on to give adults, to whom we are bound with the most powerful ties of love and respect, the services we associate with the care of an infant, with their sense of dignity, and our own, now and for all eternity, dependent on the delicate attention and sensitivity we bring to the task, even as they gaze upon us helpless and vulnerable.

Relationship between diet, iron and zinc status and health outcomes, particularly in vulnerable groups such as young women, infants and toddlers.

«The two population groups are most vulnerable are fetuses and infants dependent on formula, but these are the two groups that rarely, if ever, get tested for lead in blood,» Lambrinidou says.

Over the years scientists have identified a number of anti-infective substances in human milk that may help fight respiratory and gastrointestinal infections, and such devastating conditions as acute inflammation of the intestines and colon, to which premature infants are particularly vulnerable.

«Infants are especially vulnerable because their bodies are so small, and on a per - pound basis, they're getting much higher exposure than anyone else in the population,» HBBF research director Jane Houlihan told the New York Times.

The invaluable evidence it produced contributed to the ongoing funding and planning of support services for pregnant women & new families, including targeting services to the most vulnerable, strengthening evidence based practice & training of staff in all aspects of infant feeding.

Community - based Neuroprotective Developmental Care in the Community (NDC), also known as «the Possums programs», aims to protect the rapidly developing infant brain and gut during the critical first 12 months of life, and also supports parents» mental health and psychological resilience during this vulnerable perinatal period.

«The reason formula is made up at a higher temperature and the boiling water is formula in itself is not sterile so there's a real worry that if you're producing it at a lower temperature it doesn't kill any bugs that might be hanging around, established in the formula over the production process — and you're giving that to very young infants who will then be more vulnerable for sickness and other things.

In contrast the mammals pictured all gestate to a point where their offspring are far less vulnerable and far more capable of survival... roughly akin to circa 9 - 18 mths of human infant development (which, even then, is a wide range itself).

In any Introduction to Biological Anthropology class, students learn that the human infant is the most vulnerable, contact dependent, slowest developing and most dependent primate - mammal of all, largely because humans are born neurologically premature, relative to other primate mammals.

Thousands of passionate volunteers and participants in the United States, Canada and beyond have helped us raise the profile of the need for human milk for vulnerable infants.

Tragically, these culturally based practices led to the deaths of possibly as many as 600 thousand infants from SIDS, in part because our society promoted a kind of premature deep, uninterrupted sleep, in sensory - deprived (solitary) environments for which the naturally vulnerable and neurologically immature human infant was not and is not, biologically prepared.

Infants in this age range are vulnerable because they have not matured enough to produce methemoglobin reductase, an oxygen - carrying molecule.

But the infants and young children most vulnerable to the malnutrition and disease that follows can also be the best protected, with the fortification of nutrients and antibodies inherent in breast milk.

Young children and infants like Gabriel, Jenalyn and Joralyn are the most vulnerable in emergency situations.

Although placing babies on their backs to sleep has been advised for several years, new research funded by the charity River's Gift is showing that some babies may be especially vulnerable if placed on their tummies to sleep: international research involving the University of Adelaide has uncovered a developmental abnormality in babies — especially in premature babies and in boys — that for the first time has been directly linked to cases of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS).

Consider the fact that Nestlé is the largest promoter of infant formula in the world, a product that is neither affordable nor safe in many communities and which erodes the food security of infants and young children, the most vulnerable members of society.

But research has shown significant positive outcomes for vulnerable families enrolled in home visiting, including improved maternal, newborn, and infant health, better educational attainment for moms, improved school readiness, and reduced child abuse.

The evidence in this book will be particularly helpful in demonstrating to maternity hospital or maternity unit administrators how implementing the Ten Steps to Successful Breastfeeding will help in decreasing the need for staff and equipment in a well - baby nursery; in increasing bedside care for postnatal women to educate them in the safe care of their infants after discharge from hospital, therefore decreasing the re-admission of neonates to hospital; in lessening admission of small vulnerable formula - fed infants to their pediatric unit with preventable infections; and in decreasing staff absenteeism to care for their ill formula - fed infants.

Some autopsy data shows that infants of smokers have signs of established hypoxic - ischemic cellular injury in the brain and the heart which probably occurred in antenatal life, may have been caused by suboptimal placental function and may have been sub-clinical, but if the baby continues to be in a vulnerable environment exposed to post-natal passive smoking, this could affect autonomic nervous system function and lead to poor temperature control, and poor heart rate and respiration control.

But breastfeeding infants who fall asleep while nursing with unswallowed milk in their mouths are also vulnerable to tooth decay.

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Protecting Infants in Emergencies in the Developed World.

In emergencies, infants and children under the age of 2 are the most vulnerable.

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LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Protecting Infants in Emergencies in the... Read More

Something to Sleep On Research on infant sleep risks, which we go over in depth in Chapter 19, shows again and again that the big risks of shared sleep are a mix of SIDS risks that affect vulnerable babies and breathing hazards that affect all babies: smoking, alcohol or drugs, risky surfaces like sofas, baby on his front (unless he's on an adult's chest), and formula - feeding.

LCGB in collaboration with Safely Fed Canada, are pleased to announce a training day on 4th December in Islington, North London, for commissioners and frontline workers from Public Health, Local Resilience Forums, emergency planners, infant feeding leads, specialist health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Infant and Young... Reainfant feeding leads, specialist health visitors and midwives working with vulnerable populations and refugees, and all other interested parties including peer supporters, on Infant and Young... ReaInfant and Young... Read More

Members of the public, NGOs and donor agencies want to assist babies and giving them good information about infant and young child feeding in emergencies will help to prevent harmful practices and help to protect the most vulnerable to illness and death.

Why must an infant take its first breath in terror, hanging upside down as its vulnerable spine is jerked straight?

Vulnerable infant = one who has been developmentally compromised during gestation (e.g. premature, LBW, exposure to smoking or drug use in pregnancy) or postnatally (exposure to smoking, not breastfed etc).

In contrast to the suggestion by The Lancet, both infant formulae and follow - on formulae are strictly regulated at European level and subject to specific requirements in consideration of the vulnerable consumers they are intended to, and their developmental phaseIn contrast to the suggestion by The Lancet, both infant formulae and follow - on formulae are strictly regulated at European level and subject to specific requirements in consideration of the vulnerable consumers they are intended to, and their developmental phasein consideration of the vulnerable consumers they are intended to, and their developmental phases.

The results show a robust early link between language and cognition in preterm infants, revealing that this vulnerable population begins life with a strong foundation for linking language and meaning.

«Preterm infants fare well in early language development: Study advances understanding of earliest link between language and cognition in vulnerable population.»

The researchers said that understanding the mechanism behind the observed secretor / non-secretor differences may prove critical to compensating for it in situations where the infants are vulnerable, such as by providing carefully chosen pre - or probiotics.

Pineda speculated that premature infants in the NICU may avert their gazes as a coping mechanism to help them deal with the stress of an intense environment during a vulnerable period of development.

It produces a watery diarrhea, which can cause life - threatening dehydration in infants or other vulnerable populations in endemic countries.

The lack of an optimal management strategy has led to substantial variation in the care for this vulnerable population, unnecessarily exposing many infants to potential harm.

In Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants, children, the group most vulnerable to malaria, receive an antimalarial drug three times during the first year of life, along with routine vaccinationIn Intermittent Preventive Treatment in Infants, children, the group most vulnerable to malaria, receive an antimalarial drug three times during the first year of life, along with routine vaccinationin Infants, children, the group most vulnerable to malaria, receive an antimalarial drug three times during the first year of life, along with routine vaccinations.

Senior researcher Professor Neena Modi from the Department of Medicine, Imperial College London says: «Our research shows that neonatal units that are larger and busier in terms of the amount of care they provide to preterm babies are more likely to show better clinical outcomes for these vulnerable infants.

«Antibiotic guidelines in NICU improve prescription practices for vulnerable infants: Stewardship program reduces late - onset sepsis, promotes adherence to best practices.»

Even for breastfed infants, there is an increased risk of SIDS when bed - sharing if younger than 4 months.48 This appears to be a particularly vulnerable time, so if parents choose to feed their infants younger than 4 months in bed, they should be especially vigilant to not fall asleep.

Dr. Hackam seeks to work with industry partners, as well as nurses, doctors and families of patients around the country, in order to develop novel regimens to safely and effectively deliver appropriate nutrition to the most vulnerable infants, who are at risk for the development of intestinal disease.

2.1 by 2030 end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round

A council will review its use of an infant school in one of the country's most deprived areas as a polling station after governors complained vulnerable pupils were losing a «precious day of learning».

Nature has devised a way to help protect infant puppies and kittens while they're in their most vulnerable and youngest stages.

As such, Severnini's study could play an important role in catalysing further action to keep nuclear plants on - line, and growing their share of the electricity mix, as a way to protect the health of infants, children, and other vulnerable populations.

We explore the regional differences in the effects of exposure to high temperature variability — an important consequence of climate change — on a particularly vulnerable demographic group: infants.

Infants and children are the most vulnerable in many cases of defective products with small toys that pose choking hazards and large furniture falling on them.

Mothers most vulnerable to these risk factors are able to learn valuable coping and response skills via participation in early intervention programs, and are subsequently more likely to foster and manage secure attachments to their infants, particularly if program enrollment occurs during pregnancy (Rubin et al., 2001).