It is well known that breast milk is the ideal nutrition for human babies. Some of the benefits of breast milk include decreased risk for gastrointestinal tract infection, type 2 diabetes, acute ...

The research identified several maternal and neonatal characteristics that contributed to the risk of hypernatremic dehydration, including delayed initiation of breastfeeding and inadequate ...

Neonatal saliva is a non-invasive biofluid that contains a wealth of information which can be collected serially with minimal impact on the infant (25). Salivary diagnostics may be helpful in not only ...

Objectives To determine the impact of incorporating dextrose gel in the treatment of neonatal hypoglycaemia (NH) and the role of feeding type in NH outcomes. Study design We conducted a retrospective ...

Aim To assess whether the introduction of a standardised medicines management pathway could reduce medication incidents in a tertiary NICU. Methods Failure of an existing incident management process ...