Archives de pédiatrie : organe officiel de la Sociéte française de pédiatrie
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This paper presents practical guidelines for nutrition and feeding of infants and toddlers including vitamin D, vitamin K and fluoride supplementations and preventive measures at risk for food allergy based on family history.
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Periodic fever is defined as a series of unexplained febrile episodes, most often starting during childhood. The febrile episodes last usually few days, are of fixed or variable duration, and regress spontaneously, the intervals between episodes being asymptomatic. Fever is accompanied by clinical manifestations affecting peritoneal, pleural and/or mucous membranes, joints and skin. ⋯ Three are hereditary diseases: familial mediterranean fever and periodic fever with hyperimmunoglobulinemia D which have a recessive autosomal transmission, and TNF receptor associated periodic syndrome or TRAPS which has a dominant autosomal transmission. One is sporadic: periodic fever with aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenopathy or PFAPA. Other etiologies are yet to be identified as many cases of periodic fever remain unexplained.
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[Meconium in the amniotic fluid: prevention of meconium aspiration and elective tracheal suction].
For many years early systematic intubation and tracheal suction have been advocated for meconium-stained infants. Recent data show that they do not reduce the frequency of pulmonary meconium aspiration and underline the importance of a preventive attitude (i.e., intrapartum oropharyngeal suction before shoulder clearing and thoracic compression before first breathing) together with a selective tracheal suction only in the newborns with obvious oropharyngeal meconial staining.