Infants, Toddlers Should Not Restrict Fat Intake, Experts Say
...apt fat recommendations from adults to infants and toddlers is not the best way." Hennig agrees. "There's little information that restricting fat before 2 years of age could be beneficial, but there's plenty of evidence that this could be dangerous," he says. "One of the main reasons is that it may retard gro...Tip Sheet: Papers At IADR Meeting
...ould be especially careful about how much fluoride toddlers swallow, saysBurt. Drinking fluoridated water should not cause problems as long as theamount of fluoride from other sources is not too high, he says. Parents shouldteach small children to use only a small amount of toothpaste and not to swallowmout...Zinc supplementation reduces duration of diarrheal episodes in infants in developing countries
...on the best means of providing zinc to infants and toddlers during diarrhea and on methods for improving zinc nutriture in developing countries....Prolonged breast-feeding improves height but not weight in rural Senegal
...ion in developing countries. A study of Senegalese toddlers up to 3 years of age found that extended breast-fe...initially normal-sized infants. A group of 443 toddlers from central Senegal were recruited from dispensaries at 2 months of age and were visited in their h...Iron supplements help African children learn to walk and talk
...ic Health. "Nearly one third of apparently healthy toddlers in this community were severely anemic. Before intervention, children with severe anemia showed distinct delays in both gross motor and language milestones for their age, and daily oral iron syrup helped to correct those deficits." In this double-...Researchers discover genes that control regulatory functions in malaria mosquitoes
... In regions of intense transmission, 40 percent of toddlers may die of acute malaria. Anopheles, the African malaria mosquito, develops rapidly in water, and its reproduction cycle begins with successive blood meals from humans. Regulatory peptides acting as neurochemicals and hormones govern these proce...Screening certain infants can be lifesaving, Wake Forest study shows
...had identified the genetic defect in 24 infants or toddlers who had come in with liver, heart or muscular abnormalities that suggested their bodies were not using fatty acids properly. Seven infants died almost immediately and another one about 18 months later. The remaining babies were given the special diet...Animals can be induced to cooperate if partners reciprocate and benefits accumulate
...gical Sciences. "For example, suppose you want two toddlers to work together, and you reward good behavior at every turn. They're likely to soon fall back into bad behavior. But if they have to play nicely with each other for 10 trials before receiving a reward, then they are likely to do it." Animals that be...Born shy, always shy? Temperamental differences may last throughout life, brain study suggests
... pictures of unfamiliar faces, adults who were shy toddlers showed a relatively high level of activity in a pa...called the amygdala. Adults who were more outgoing toddlers showed less activity in this brain structure, which is related to emotion and novelty. The findings ...Children with HIV more likely to utilize health services than infected adults
...'s Center researcher reports. "Because infants and toddlers are more likely to visit their pediatrician on a regular basis, and because physicians believe that administering highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to babies and infants early on helps establish and maintain levels of viral suppression, we...Special training may help people with autism recognize faces
...cond is a randomized controlled study involving 24 toddlers and preschool children diagnosed with autism and 24 control subjects. Through behavioral interventions, the children are taught to make eye contact and thus have more experience looking at faces. It involves intensive training 25 hours a week for t...University of Pittsburgh receives NIH funding to develop heart assist device for infants
... implanted in infants. "Historically, infants and toddlers have been overlooked by technology development. Yet the smallest of our patients have the greatest need because the only means of support available to them is ECMO, which has unacceptably high mortality and complication rates. We hope to be able to d...'Crack babies' do better when placed with non-family caregivers
... Thus, we studied how the type of care provided to toddlers who experienced prenatal cocaine exposure affected...at "kin" caregivers of cocaine-exposed infants and toddlers may also need support and help with parenting....Essential smell gene may provide key to new insect repellents
...has to be covered. It can't be used for infants or toddlers because of its toxicity. So it's not very useful against disease-vector insects." "Now there's hope that, in Africa, in regions where malaria is endemic, bed nets could be impregnated with a repellent that works by blunting or eliminating the mosquit...