Cochrane Db Syst Rev
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Cochrane Db Syst Rev · Jul 2007
ReviewWITHDRAWN: Interventions for chronic suppurative otitis media.
Chronic suppurative otitis media (CSOM) is a serious bacterial infection of the middle ear that can follow untreated acute otitis media. ⋯ Treatment of CSOM with aural toilet and topical antibiotics, particularly quinolones, is effective in resolving otorrhea and eradicating bacteria from the middle ear. Longterm outcomes such as preventing recurrences, closure of tympanic perforation and hearing improvement need to be further evaluated.
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Folate depletion may result in anaemia during pregnancy. ⋯ Folate supplementation during pregnancy appears to improve haemoglobin levels and folate status. There is not enough evidence to evaluate whether folate supplementation has any effect, beneficial or harmful, on clinical outcomes for mother and baby.
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Anaemia in pregnancy is a major health problem in many developing countries where nutritional deficiency, malaria and other parasitic infections contribute to increased maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. ⋯ Iron supplementation appears to prevent low haemoglobin at birth or at six weeks post-partum. There is very little information on pregnancy outcomes for either mother or baby. There are few data derived from communities where iron deficiency is common and anaemia is a serious health problem.
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Cochrane Db Syst Rev · Jul 2007
ReviewWITHDRAWN: Commercial hospital discharge packs for breastfeeding women.
Exclusive breastfeeding until around six months of age, followed by the introduction of solids with continued breastfeeding, is considered to be the optimal nutritional start for newborn infants. ⋯ The giving of commercial hospital discharge packs (with or without formula) appears to reduce the number of women exclusively breastfeeding at all times but has no significant effect upon the earlier termination of non-exclusive breastfeeding.
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Cochrane Db Syst Rev · Jul 2007
ReviewWITHDRAWN: Immunoglobulin for preventing respiratory syncytial virus infection.
Respiratory Syncytial virus, the most important cause of lower respiratory tract infections in infants and young children in industrialized countries, is associated with increased morbidity in premature infants with or without bronchopulmonary dysplasia as well as those with congenital heart disease. Because of observations that lower rates of disease occur immediately after birth, presumably due to vertical transmission of maternal antibody, and animal studies where protection from pneumonia was observed through administration of immune globulin, the efficacy of passive prophylaxis in premature infants has been studied. ⋯ RSVIG is effective in preventing RSV hospitalizations and admission to the intensive care unit, but not in preventing mechanical ventilation. There was a non-significant trend towards a higher mortality in children given RSVIG.