Acute episodic wheeze related to viral infections is a common and distressing condition and treatment remains unsatisfactory. Although some benefit from the continuous use of inhaled steroids has been demonstrated in young wheezy children, their effect primarily on acute episodes has not been considered. In this study the effect ofbudesonide (400 ,ug/day) was assessed in a four month double blind parallel trial, in 41 children (0 7-6*0 years) with predominantly episodic viral wheeze.Analysis of the last three months showed no difference between budesonide or placebo in mean daily total symptom score (median values 0'6 and 0.63), episode number (mean values 2-6 and 2-4), or score/episode (mean value 30 and 31). Four months of treatment with inhaled budesonide had no effect on acute episodes of wheeze in this group of children. (Arch Dis Child 1995; 72: 317-320)
ResultsOver a 17-week period in the winter of 1974/75, 400 mothers were discharged from the hospital ward, of whom 172 (43%) were feeding by bottle alone, 20 (5 %) by breast with formula complements, and 208 (52 %) by breast alone (i.e. with only water complements if any). 167 of the 208 breast-feeding mothers replied to the questionnaire (a reply rate of 81 %), and are the subject of this paper. Over this 17-week period a similar incidence of breast feeding was found for the whole hospital (576 out of 1064 mother: 54%) indicating that the ward chosen was representative. Social class distribution of mothers replying to the questionnaire did not differ from that of the previous survey, with an over-representation of social classes I, II, and III. Received 7 February 1977 Time of stopping breast feeding. Of the 167 mothers who left the hospital ward breast feeding, 92 % were still breast feeding at 2 weeks after delivery, 78 % at 1 month, and 43 % at 5 months. The rate of decline of breast feeding (Fig.
SUMMARY Twenty-one children aged between 2 and 54 months, 14 with eczema and 7 with allergies in first-degree relatives, were referred for diagnostic jejunal mucosal biopsy for a variety of symptoms. A partial villous atrophy was found in 19 of the 21 biopsies obtained; the other 2 were normal. We report a highly significant (P
A survey is reported of infant feeding practice at the time of discharge from a single maternity ward. It is shown that a change in the attitude of nursing staff increased the number of mothers breast feeding their infants and eliminated the practice of giving the infants formula feed complements. This change in attitude, however, did nothing to prevent the rapid decline in lactation after leaving hospital, such that 50% of mothers discharged breast feeding were no longer doing so by 2 months. The early introduction of solid feeds was common practice, 50% of mothers discharged breast feeding having introduced mixed feeds within 2 months. Successful lactation was found to be commoner in those mothers who had themselves been breast fed in infancy and in mothers from socioeconomic classes I and II. Successful lactation was not related to parity. The survey also shows the influential role of the health visitor, district nurse, and midwife upon mothers' decisions about infant feeding.
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