A cross-sectional study on stool- and gastrointestinal-related outcomes of Mexican infants consuming different formulae.

Background: Immaturities present at birth, such as in the gut microbiome and digestive, nervous, and immune system, resolve with time. Nevertheless, this may result in mild digestive symptoms early in life, particularly in formula-fed infants. Formula composition and processing may impact this discomfort.

Efficacy and Safety of the Adjuvant Use of Probiotic Bacillus clausii Strains in Pediatric Irritable Bowel Syndrome: A Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study.

Objectives: Current irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) treatments have limited efficacy and probiotics like Bacillus clausii (B. clausii) were found to be effective in the management of several gastrointestinal disorders. This phase III trial assessed the efficacy and safety of adding B.

Complementary feeding practices in Mexican healthy infants: How close are they to the current guidelines?

Background: The foundations for the growth and optimal development of every human being are laid in the first 2 years of life. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) up to 6 months of age and the introduction of complementary feeding (CF) from this age are considered the preventive interventions with the most significant impact on a child's life. The objective of this study was to determine if pediatricians base their recommendations by following the Guidelines for CF in Healthy Infants (GCFHI) and if mothers have any awareness and knowledge of these recommendations.

[Mexican guidelines on the diagnosis and treatment of urticaria].

Background: Urticaria is a disease that a fifth of the population shallsuffer once in a lifetime. Recent clinical guidelines have proposed some fundamental changes in the diagnosis and treatment of urticaria, making the development of a national, multidisciplinary guideline, with wide acceptability among different professional groups -both specialists and primary health care workers-, necessary in Mexico.

Material And Method: Internationally recognized tools for guidelinedevelopment were used.

[Clinical conditions at hospitalization and its relation with admission to pediatric intensive care unit].

Background: The admission to a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) depends on several factors, but the chances of recovery of the patient are the main cause. Most of the patients are admitted from urgency or surgery room, and a minority from hospitalization areas. The aim of this study was to find the differences between the clinical conditions at the time of hospitalization and when the patients were transferred to PICU.