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Rivers of Baby Poop
2008-03-20 00:28:00 As we finish up the RSV season, we are no longer going through gallons of Albuterol - now we head into the spring season of Rotavirus. Little kids with rivers of liquid yellow poop. Poop that runs down their legs, poop that shoots out of diapers and poop that splatters the unaware nurse attempting to obtain a rectal temp. And they are all dehydrated and need IV's . Kids getting poked scream, poor things. Usually they are screaming more from being held down that the actual needle stick. It's not easy to put an IV into a screaming, wiggling, dehydrated kid. That means time bent over them with them screaming at full volume into your face. It also means wrestling with hot, sweaty angry kids until you are also hot and sweaty. I left yesterday with my head pounding from the continual onslaught of noise and my back aching from the constant bending.I'm very good at peds IV's so I do them a lot. I don't enjoy it, kids don't understand that you are doing the things you are doi...
By: ERnursey
Combining Probiotics And Antibodies Known To Cure Rotaviral-Caused Diarrhea
2007-12-31 09:41:00 New approach to improving diarrhoea in infants with probiotics Each year more than half a million infants worldwide, primarily in developing countries, die from diarrhoea caused by rotavirus. Even in industrialised countries management of the infection costs economies about $1 billion a year. Now a study in the online open access journal, BMC Microbiology demonstrates that ...
New rotavirus vaccine
2007-08-23 15:03:00 The tetravalent rotavirus vaccine currently licensed in the USA is based on rhesus rotavirus. It gives a protective efficacy against rotavirus disease in developed countries of some 50-70%, rising to 80% against severe disease. There are grounds to believe that a human virus vaccine might be more effective. Now US workers have assessed an attenuated ...
Rotavirus - Facts, Signs And Symptoms
2007-06-21 09:25:00 Facts The name rotavirus is derived from the Latin rota, meaning “wheel” because of its characteristic wheel-like appearance. Rotaviruses are nonenveloped, double-shelled viruses. The genome is composed of 11 segments of double-stranded RNA, which code for six structural and five nonstructural proteins. The virus is stable in the environment. They are 70 nm icosahedral viruses that belong to ...
Vaccines Against Rotavirus
2007-06-21 09:21:00 In the 1999, the US Advisory Committee on Immunisation Practices removed a vaccine called RotaShield (Wyeth Laboratories) was removed from the market as it was found to be associated with a rare type of bowel obstruction where the bowel folds in on itself, called intussusception. Currenty the oral (swallowed) vaccines that are approved for use are ...
How Does Rotavirus Spread And What Should You Do
2007-06-20 16:30:00 An infected child will pass out large amounts of rotavirus out in the stools and if hands are not washed properly, anything that the infected child touches will become contaminated. Rotaviruses can spread easily when children touch contaminated objects and put their fingers into their mouths. Parents taking care of an infected child can also spread if ...
Rotavirus Vaccine Goes Sublingual
2007-05-15 21:30:00 From Medgadget: Inspired by dissolvable breath mint strips, undergraduate students at John Hopkins in collaboration with Aridis...
Students devise oral quick-dissolve strips for rotavirus vaccine
2007-05-14 19:51:00 A thin strip that dissolves in the mouth like a popular breath-freshener could someday provide life-saving rotavirus vaccine to infants in impoverished areas. read more Read more at BJS
Two major european paediatric societies support rotavirus vaccination of in
2007-05-06 04:05:00 The European Society for Paediatric Infectious Disease (ESPID) and the European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) support rotavirus vaccination of infants in Europe. [click link for full article] (Source: Health News from Medical News Today) More: continued here
Rotavirus vaccines in developed countries.
2007-05-02 22:05:00 Page: 253DOI: 10.1097/QCO.0b013e32813aeaacAut-hors: Buttery, Jim P a,b; Kirkwood, Carl b (Source: Current Opinion in Infectious Diseases) More: continued here
Concerns about new rotavirus vaccines?
2007-04-10 19:04:00 The authors of a study published in Pediatrics in January 2007 look at physicians’ perceptions of the new rotavirus vaccines. Medscape Pediatrics (Source: Medscape FamilyMedicine Headlines) More: continued here
Cost-effectiveness and potential impact of rotavirus vaccination in the uni
2007-04-04 22:04:00 OBJECTIVE. In February 2006, a safe, efficacious, orally administered pentavalent human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine was licensed and recommended for routine immunization of all children in the United States. We assessed the health and economic impacts of a national rotavirus immunization program in the United States. METHODS. Monte Carlo cost-effectiveness analyses, from health care and societal perspectives, ...
Newer version of rotavirus vaccine called safe
2007-04-02 19:04:00 Concerns about intussusception have not panned out. (Source: American Medical News - HEALTH) More: continued here
Us centre for disease control and prevention announces rotavirus vaccine (r
2007-03-20 00:03:00 According to a report by Reuters Health News, the U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that that Merck & Co’s new vaccine against the rotavirus (RotaTeq) poses no elevated risk of intussusception in infants. (Intussusception is a serious and potentially life-threatening condition that occurs when the intestine gets blocked or twisted) After ...
No increase in intussusception associated with new rotavirus vaccine
2007-03-18 11:03:00 (Source: Physician’s First Watch current issue) More: continued here
Cdc releases safety data on rotavirus vaccine reported intussusception case
2007-03-16 12:03:00 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released today new safety data on a recently licensed rotavirus vaccine given to infants that indicate the vaccine does not pose an elevated risk for intussusception… (Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) More: continued here
Cdc releases safety data on rotavirus vaccine rotateq
2007-03-16 10:03:00 The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released today new safety data on a recently licensed rotavirus vaccine given to infants that indicate the vaccine does not pose an elevated risk for intussusception, the most common cause of bowel obstruction in infants. (Source: News-Medical News Feed) More: continued here
New rotavirus vaccine gets thumbs up from us paediatricians
2007-03-14 15:03:00 (Source: Latest Issue of PharmacoEconomics and Outcomes News) More: continued here
New rotavirus vaccine gets thumbs up from us paediatricians.
2007-03-10 18:52:02 (Source: Inpharma Weekly) More: continued here
[evidence-based medicine] a rotavirus vaccine for infants prevented rotavir
2007-02-03 00:30:02 (Source: Archives of Disease in Childhood - Education and Practice) More: continued here
Volume 195, number 5: neonatal infection with g10p[11] rotavirus did not co
2007-01-31 06:24:03 Background. Various observational studies have suggested that neonatal rotavirus infection confers protection against diarrhea due to subsequent rotavirus infection. We examined the incidence of rotavirus infection and diarrhea during the first 2 years of life among children infected with the G10P[11] rotavirus strain during the neonatal period and those not infected with rotavirus.Methods. Children were recruited at birth and were followed up at least twice weekly. Stool samples, collected every 2 weeks for surveillance and at each episode of diarrhea, were screened by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and were genotyped by polymerase chain reaction.Results. Among 33 children infected neonatally with G10P[11] and 300 children not infected with rotavirus, there was no significant difference in the rates of rotavirus-positive diarrhea (rate ratio [RR], 1.05 [95% confidence interval {CI}, 0.61?1.79]), moderate or severe rotavirus-positive diarrhea (RR, 1.42 [95% CI, 0.73?2.78]), or as...
Human-bovine reassortant rotavirus vaccine
2006-12-29 18:09:01 The vaccine appears to be highly effective and well tolerated. Pediatric Pharmacotherapy (Source: Medscape PublicHealth Headlines) More: continued here |
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