Publications by authors named "Yesenia Morales"

Article Synopsis
  • - A full-term newborn girl experienced non-bilious vomiting and abdominal swelling right after her first feeding, raising concerns for gastrointestinal obstruction or sepsis.
  • - Initial imaging suggested a blockage in the duodenum, but only surgery revealed the actual diagnosis: infantile hypertrophic pyloric stenosis.
  • - The case emphasizes that atypical signs of pyloric stenosis warrant thorough investigation, such as using ultrasonography, to prevent complications in newborns.
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Many parents wonder if their child might have autism. Many parents use their smartphones to answer health questions. We asked, "How easy or hard is it for parents to use their smartphones to find 'tools' to test their child for signs of autism?" After doing pretend parent searches, we found that only one in 10 search results were tools to test children for autism.

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Significant benefits to infant host defense, sensory-neural development, gastrointestinal maturation, and some aspects of nutritional status are observed when premature infants are fed their mothers' own milk. A reduction in infection-related morbidity in human milk-fed premature infants has been reported in nearly a dozen descriptive, and a few quasi-randomized, studies in the past 25 years. Studies on neurodevelopmental outcomes have reported significantly positive effects for human milk intake on mental and motor development, intelligence quotient, and visual acuity compared with the feeding of formula.

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