Pediatric Scurvy: When Contemporary Eating Habits Bring Back the Past.

Vitamin C deficiency is anecdotal in developed countries, mainly associated with underling clinical morbidities as autism or neurological impairment. Chronic insufficient dietary supply is responsible for vascular fragility and impaired bone formation, resulting in gingival bleeding, petechial lesions, articular and bone pain or limb swelling. Children may present anorexia, irritability, failure to thrive, limping or refusal to walk.

Paralytic ileus in a mechanically ventilated preterm infant treated with fentanyl.

The administration of fentanyl for sedation of ventilated newborns can induce several side-effects such as hypertension, respiratory muscle rigidity and, as shown in this report, decreased gastrointestinal motility. We report a case of paralytic ileus in a ventilated preterm infant who was given fentanyl in the first 24 hours of life. To our knowledge, the association of paralytic ileus with fentanyl has not been reported previously in full-term or preterm infants.

Randomised controlled trial of the effect of cisapride on the pyloric muscle in preterm infants.

Unlabelled: In this study we determined the effects of cisapride on the pyloric muscle in preterm infants. To perform a randomised, double blind, placebo controlled study, two groups each of 16 preterm newborns were given either cisapride (0.2 mg/kg every 8 h) or a placebo for at least 7 days.