Fibre is an essential nutrient in the human diet that is crucial for human health. It provides a range of functional benefits, including stool bulking, and physiological benefits through fermentation ...

The most recent in a series of dangerous social media trends has seen children ingesting large quantities of nutmeg in an attempt to gain a natural ‘high’. Over the past 20 years, there has been a ...

Objective Neural tube defects (NTDs) are a preventable folate deficiency disorder; increasing folic acid intake through food fortification increases serum and red blood cell folate and reduces the ...

Objective: To produce representative cross-sectional blood pressure reference centiles for children and young people living in Great Britain. Design: Analysis of blood pressure data from seven ...

> Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. Theodore Roosevelt1 We would define an innovative therapy as any newly introduced treatment, or a new ...

Objective The aim of this research was to ascertain the effectiveness of current electronic prescribing (EP) systems to prevent a standardised set of paediatric prescribing errors likely to cause harm ...

Conclusion Consumption of slush ice drinks containing glycerol may cause a clinical syndrome of glycerol intoxication in young children, characterised by decreased consciousness, hypoglycaemia, lactic ...

The incidence of respiratory depression following treatment of prolonged seizures with benzodiazepines is variable in the literature. We retrospectively reviewed the charts of children treated for ...

Aims To ascertain whether the parameters on the Sepsis Trust screening and action tool, a tool to help clinical staff recognise and treat sepsis swiftly, are useful indicators of septic children.

Design A prospective observational study over 1 year. Setting A District General Hospital, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Department. Patients Children aged 8–18 years living in the catchment ...

This series of systematic reviews was commissioned by WHO in July 2022 to inform their guideline review process. The aim was to identify the current evidence for developing WHO guidelines for the ...

Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of early supplementation with insulin glargine (GI) during the acute management of paediatric diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). Design Double-blinded ...