The effect of topical olive oil application on the symptoms of infantile colic: A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial.

Background And Aims: Infantile colic is one of the most common disorders in the first months of infants' lives. This condition hurts parents' moods. This study was carried out to investigate the effect of the topical use of olive oil on infantile colic symptoms.

Retrospective analysis of direct antiglobulin test positivity at tertiary academic hospital over 10 years.

Background: Hemolytic disease of the fetus and newborn (HDFN) is a clinically significant problem that may potentially affect any pregnancy. Direct antiglobulin test (DAT) is considered to be an important test in identifying newborns who are suspected to have HDN. This study aims in reviewing data regarding a positive DAT result concerning etiology and the development of HDN over a period of 10 years.

The association between 25-dehydroxy vitamin D and lower respiratory infection in children aged less than "5" years in Imam Reza hospital, Bojnurd, Iran.

Objective: To clarify the association between vitamin D deficiency and acute respiratory infection in children below age 5 years.

Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted at Imam Reza Hospital in Bojnurd, Iran, in June 2013 and comprised 90 children below 5 years of age suffering from respiratory infections. They was selected on the basis of purposive sampling and were then categorised into two equal groups of 'acute' and 'non-acute' respiratory infection.

Prooxidant-antioxidant balance in umbilical cord blood of infants with meconium stained of amniotic fluid.

Objective. Using a novel assay termed prooxidant-antioxidant balance (PAB) assay to determine prooxidant-antioxidant balance in umbilical cord blood of infants with meconium stained of amniotic fluid (MSAF). Passage of meconium in amniotic fluid is associated with increase of neonatal mortality and morbidity.

Ophthalmic, hearing, speaking and school readiness outcomes in low birth weight and normal birth weight primary school children in Mashhad-Iran.

Low Birth weight infants are at risk of many problems. Therefore their outcome must evaluate in different ages especially in school age. In this study we determined prevalence of ophthalmic, hearing, speaking and school readiness problems in children who were born low birth weight and compared them with normal birth weight children.