What Are the Potential Benefits and Risks of Premasticated Foods?
Discussion
Premastication is the prechewing of foods or medicines by another person before feeding to an infant. It is also used to pretaste or temperature test foods. It was a common practice for millennia, especially before modern food technology, as a way to transition an infant from a solely liquid based diet to a mixed diet mainly of solid food. Rates of premastication vary, with less developed countries having an increased incidence/prevalence (up to 50%) but it is not uncommon in developed countries (in the US 14% is reported).
Saliva is also used to clean other people, treat cuts/itches or insect bites as well. Pla...
Source: PediatricEducation.org - November 14, 2022 Category: Pediatrics Authors: Pediatric Education Tags: Uncategorized Source Type: news
Group A Strep Infection Not Tied to Tics in Children With Family History
THURSDAY, Feb. 3, 2022 -- For children with a first-degree relative with chronic tic disorder (CTD), Group-A streptococcal (GAS) exposure is not associated with tic onset, according to a study published online Feb. 2 in Neurology.
Anette Eleonore... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 3, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Maternal Sepsis: presentation, course, treatment and outcomes
The current adult definition of sepsis and septic shock, as developed in 1992, does not adequately define sepsis in the pregnant and peripartum women due to the alteration of sepsis presentation in the maternal population. The purpose of this study was to determine potential causative factors for sepsis with the aim of prevention and reducing morbidity and mortality. Study Design and Methods: A descriptive observational design via a retrospective medical record review was used with a convenience sample of 22 women who were identified after admission as having sepsis. The setting was the labor and delivery unit of a large u...
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - June 9, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Group A Strep Exposure Does Not Worsen Chronic Tic in Youth
GAS exposures associated with longitudinal changes of hyperactivity - impulsivity symptom severity (Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry)
Source: The Doctors Lounge - Psychiatry - February 11, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Tags: Family Medicine, Infections, Neurology, Pediatrics, Psychiatry, Journal, Source Type: news
Group A Strep Exposure Does Not Worsen Chronic Tic in Youth
THURSDAY, Feb. 11, 2021 -- For children with chronic tic disorders (CTD), group A Streptococcus (GAS) exposure seems not to be a contributing factor for tic exacerbations, according to a study published online Feb. 10 in Neurology.
Davide Martino,... (Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News)
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - February 11, 2021 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
New research shows promise to treat female group A streptococcus genital tract infections
(Elsevier) Puerperal sepsis, also known as childbed fever, is the leading cause of maternal deaths. In this novel study in The American Journal of Pathology, published by Elsevier, scientists report on the discovery of group A streptococcus (GAS) surface proteins involved in female reproductive tract infections such as puerperal sepsis that may pave the way to developing vaccines and more effective treatments. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - March 19, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
BD Ramps Up Production, Collaborates on New Diagnostic in Response to COVID-19
BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company) was one of several medtech companies that joined President Donald Trump when he declared a national emergency last week. Several medtech executives detailed their response to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Tom Polen, BD’s CEO and president, reported during President Trump’s announcement that BD is “one of the leading providers of medical devices as well as collection products for testing of coronavirus and we are ramping up our manufacturing capacity to ensure that the right collection devices and testing equipment are read...
Source: MDDI - March 18, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Tags: IVD Source Type: news
Discovery reveals antibiotic-resistant strep throat may be too close for comfort
(Houston Methodist) Infectious disease scientists identified strains of group A streptococcus that are less susceptible to commonly used antibiotics, a sign that the germ causing strep throat and flesh-eating disease may be moving closer to resistance to penicillin and other related antibiotics known as beta-lactams. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - January 29, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
New bacterial strain discovered in England and Wales linked to scarlet fever, sore throat and sepsis
A team of scientists led by Imperial College London have discovered a new strain of group A streptococcus bacteria in 2016. Group A streptococcus (or Strep A) is known to cause scarlet fever, throat infections and– in very rare cases– invasive disease, where the bacterium enters the bloodstream or tissue and can trigger sepsis and toxic shock. (Source: Medical Research Council General News)
Source: Medical Research Council General News - September 18, 2019 Category: Research Source Type: news
New Strep A Strain Linked to Scarlet Fever, and Sepsis
This news item outlines how a new strain of group A streptococcus bacteria called M1UK linked to scarlet fever and sepsis has been identified in England and Wales. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - September 12, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Mother-of-three, 37, loses fingers, toes and right leg after developing a bacterial infection
Alecia Kennen, 37, of Rice Lake, Wisconsin, developed toxic shock syndrome after a rug burn on her shoulder in June 2015 was infected with group A Streptococcus bacteria. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - August 20, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Further fatality in Essex outbreak of deadly strain of Strep A
A 13th patient has died in an outbreak of invasive Group A streptococcus in Essex mainly affecting older people being treated for chronic wounds in the community. (Source: Nursing Times)
Source: Nursing Times - July 24, 2019 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Bronx girl, 7, who lost an arm to flesh-eating bacteria after swimming in hotel pool is on the mend
Amillian 'Mimi' Villa, seven, from The Bronx, New York, was diagnosed with an infection of group A Streptococcus, the leading cause of necrotizing fasciitis in November 2018. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 22, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Florida woman contracted flesh-eating bacteria after going swimming with a cut on her foot
WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT Leann Thibodeau, from Port Charlotte, Florida, was diagnosed on Fourth of July with an infection of group A Streptococcus in her left foot. (Source: the Mail online | Health)
Source: the Mail online | Health - July 9, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Streptococcal Infection Outbreak'Evolving '
This news item outlines how twelve patients have now died in mid Essex in an outbreak of invasive Group A Streptococcus. (Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH))
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - July 5, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
