Neonatal Medicine News

Children whose mothers were exposed to an ambient particulate matter concentration less than 2.5 µm during the third trimester had elevated BP at age 3 to 9 years, according to a study published in Hypertension.

Younger gestational age in late preterm infants was more likely to contribute to morbidities resulting in hospital stay compared with causes of preterm delivery, according to research presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies 2018 Meeting

Supplementing breast milk with a probiotic strain of Bifidobacterium longum subspecies infantis EVC001 reduced the prevalence of antibiotic resistance genes among infants, according to data presented at the 51st Annual Meeting of the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition.

Children born very preterm and had very low birth weights to mothers with diabetes were not at increased risk for death compared with those born to mothers without diabetes.

Extending maternity leave to 12 weeks resulted in a significant increase in breastfeeding duration and exclusivity through 9 months for active duty mothers, according to findings presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies meeting.

The prevalence of hepatitis C infection among one cohort of pregnant women increased by 60% between 2006 and 2014, with only 30% of infants born to infected mothers screened for the infection, according to a retrospective cohort study published in Pediatrics.

The use of a discharge checklist that facilitated communication between team members improved the percentage of newborns discharged by 11 a.m., according to study results published in Pediatrics.

The use of a calculator that can assess the probability of UTI using clinical variables and later update the probability once lab results are received, reduces testing in nonverbal febrile infants younger than 2 years of age by 8.1%, according to findings published in JAMA Pediatrics.

Vaccination is a pivotal step toward the prevention communicable diseases in infants as they grow; however, WHO and UNICEF estimate that 12.9 million infants around the world did not receive any immunizations. This statistic leaves approximately one in 10 children aged 2 years or younger at risk for 14 potentially life-threatening diseases.

Prenatal and postnatal concentrations of pentabromodiphenyl ether, a flame-retardant chemical that can be found in furniture, decreased 5% every year between 1998 and 2013; however, these levels remained present in all children that provided samples for analysis.