[Silymarin/galega administration in term and preterm mothers to sustain breast feeding: an observational study].

Aim: Breastfeeding is considered the most important source of nutrition both in the first year of life for term and preterm infants, because of its well-known positive effects on short and long-term outcome. Unfortunately not all the mothers can begin or maintain an adequate milk secretion. Premature delivery and prolonged length of stay in the hospital can influence maternal milk production due to maternal anxiety and/ or neonatal pathologies related to prematurity.

Routine Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG administration in VLBW infants: a retrospective, 6-year cohort study.

Background: In preterm neonates, use of probiotic mixtures is increasingly popular and is effective in preventing NEC, fungal colonization, and improving feeding tolerance. However, concerns exist about safety and tolerability of long-lasting administration of living microrganisms to not-immunocompetent hosts. We report a 6-year, two-NICUs experience of routinary Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) use in VLBW infants.

[Prevention of dental caries].

Caries prevention. Today there is enough scientific knowledge about the etiology of caries and factors that might interfere in this process in order to develop preventive strategies. Pathological factors including acidogenic bacteria (e.

Correlations between volume delivery (VTHF) in course of high frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) and severity of respiratory distress.

The treatment of severe respiratory distress in infants (e.g. respiratory distress syndrome--RDS, meconium aspiration syndrome--MAS and pulmonary haemorrage) with HFOV can cause sometimes a volume delivery (VTHF) exceeding the anatomical dead space, with the possibility of an increased risk of volutrauma, implicated in the pathogenesis of chronic lung disease (CLD).

[The "guaranteed volume" in pressure support ventilation reduces the risk of barotrauma in premature children with severe respiratory syndrome].

Chronic Lung Disease (CLD) remains a major complication of prematurity, and barovolutrauma is thought to be one of the most important predisposing factors. In view of reducing the damage due to variability of tidal volume (Vt), we studied the application of the new option of volume guarantee (VG). We analyzed ventilatory data of 25 preterm infants with respiratory distress syndrome (RDS) in two situations: pressure support ventilation (PSV) + VG vs PSV alone.

Treatment of respiratory tract infections in children: a study of a combination of amoxycillin and clavulanic acid.

In an open study, 70 in-patients and 23 out-patients aged between 1 and 14 years with sinusitis (n = 1), perforated otitis media (n = 4), pharyngotonsillitis (n = 25), tracheobronchitis (n = 30) or broncho-pneumonia (n = 33) were treated daily with a combination of 40 mg/kg amoxycillin and 10 mg/kg clavulanic acid in three equal doses for between 6 and 15 days. Purulent specimens were cultured when obtainable and pathogenic organisms identified were Staphylococcus aureus, beta-haemolytic streptococcal group A, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Pseudococcus species and Klebsiella pneumoniae infections, of which 45.7% were beta-lactamase-producing and 54.