Gastrointestinal Conditions News

Patients who occupied the same hospital bed as a prior inhabitant who received antibiotics were at an increased risk for Clostridium difficile infection even if they did not receive antibiotics themselves, according to recent study results published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

PHILADELPHIA — The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and The Wistar Institute recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the two vaccines that block the microbe rotavirus, a gastrointestinal condition that incurs life-threatening vomiting and diarrhea in young children.

Among children with chronic gastrointestinal issues who may be considered for referral, a negative fecal calprotectin result is likely to be indicative of a true negative, sufficient to rule out inflammatory bowel disease at the primary care level, according to data published in the Annals of Family Medicine.

Children aged 1 year in Argentina experienced sustained immunologic protection up to 9 years after receiving a single-dose of a universal hepatitis A virus vaccine, according to published findings.

The increasing popularity of backyard poultry flocks has been associated with an increase in salmonellosis outbreaks that have particularly impacted children, according to a study that examined all reported cases of salmonellosis in the United States during a 25-year period.

A spike in intussusception hospitalization rates occurred in children aged 8 to 11 weeks after children received initial doses of RotaTeq or Rotarix vaccine for rotavirus compared with prevaccine years, according to recent study results.

Researchers are performing the first ever randomized controlled trial of fecal transplants in children with ulcerative colitis at McMaster University in Canada, according to a press release.

In children and adolescents, migraine headaches are positively associated with functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome and abdominal migraine, and negatively associated with functional constipation, investigators from a European case-control study found.

Campylobacter infection contributed to linear growth deficiencies among children in resource-limited areas, according to published study findings.

Since the advent of universal RotaTeq vaccination in Finland in 2009, data have indicated a 90% reduction in pediatric hospitalizations for rotavirus acute gastroenteritis and no resurgence after 5 years, according to recent data.