The excessively crying infant: Etiology and treatment

Excessive crying, often described as infantile colic, is the cause of 10% to 20% of all early pediatrician visits of infants aged 2 weeks to 3 months. Although usually benign and selflimiting, excessive crying is associated with parental exhaustion and stress. However, and underlying organic cause is found in less than 5% of these infants. In...

Wiegendoodpeilingen naar verzorgingsfactoren in Nederland en Noordrijn-Westfalen

Aanvullende adviezen voor veilig slapen ter preventie van wiegendood

Er is grote vooruitgang geboekt in de afname van de incidentie van wiegendood in Nederland, maar de laatste jaren is het aantal gevallen van wiegendood constant gebleven. Er is een nieuwe richtlijn van de American Academy of Pediatrics over veilig slapen. Bestaande adviezen blijven gelden zoals (a) het afraden van buik- en zijligging; (b) het...

Postnatal parental smoking: An important risk factor for SIDS

Background: Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is the unexpected death of an infant that remains unexplained after a thorough investigation of the circumstances, family history, paediatric investigation and complete autopsy. In Western society, it is the leading cause of post-neonatal death below 1 year of age. In the Netherlands, the SIDS...

Invloed van jgz-scholing op de opname van excessief huilende zuigelingen

Surveillance study of apparent life-threatening events (ALTE) in the Netherlands

SIDS and ALTE are different entities that somehow show some similarities. Both constitute heterogeneous conditions. The Netherlands is a low-incidence country for SIDS. To study whether the same would hold for ALTE, we studied the incidence, etiology, and current treatment of ALTE in The Netherlands. Using the Dutch Pediatric Surveillance Unit,...

Overgewicht en obesitas bij jonge kinderen (0-4 jaar): Gedrag en opvattingen van ouders [Overweight and obesity in preschool children (0-4 years): Behaviour and views of parents]

Objective. Description of unhealthy behaviour and views regarding nutrition, physical exercise and education in families with young children, in relation to specific groups with a high risk of overweight. Design. Cross-sectional study. Method. In wellbaby clinics for infants and toddlers in various sites in the Netherlands 534 parents were...

Herziene richtlijn Preventie wiegendood [Revised guideline Prevention of cot death]

There are new insights into the pathogenesis of cot death ('sudden infant death syndrome'; SIDS). - Based on these new insights, the Dutch Paediatric Association and the Dutch Child and Youth Health Care Physicians have drawn up a new guideline 'Prevention of cot death', which replaces the consensus statement of 1996. The 2 major differences...

Kansrijke elementen in de preventie van overgewicht bij jonge kinderen [Favorable elements in the prevention of overweight in young children]

More knowledge seems necessary about risk groups and determinants of overweight and obesity and how these are entangled in order to be able to prevent and treat them effectively. In this article factors that either may prevent, stabilize or reduce overweight are described.We conclude that there is strong evidence for a doseresponse relationship...

Referral patterns between the child health care, general practitioners and secondary health care: A prospective descriptive study in the Netherlands

Background: In the Netherlands, preventive child health service (CHS) screening plays an important role in the early detection of congenital, developmental, physical, and mental disorders. Objective: To obtain insight into the referral patterns of children from CHS to general practitioners and from general practitioners to medical specialists....

Preventie van wiegendood op maat

Uit de TNO-peiling van 2003 naar verzorgingsfactoren van zuigelingen blijkt dat de prevalentie van risicovolle verzorgingsfactoren laag is. Om preventie van wiegendood nog meer op maat te maken, is onder­ zocht of er associaties bestaan tussen deze erkende aan wiegendood gerelateerde verzorgingsfactoren (slaapligging, beddengoed ,...

Swaddling: a systematic review

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Preventie van overgewicht bij niet-westerse zuigelingen

Peiling risicofactoren wiegendood bij zuigelingen November 2002 - april 2003

The development and validation of a handicap questionnaire for children with a chronic illness

Introduction: This paper describes the development and initial psychometric evaluation of the Handicap Scale for Children (HSC). This questionnaire is based on the London Handicap Scale (LHS), a valid and reliable utility instrument for measuring social participation in adults. Methods: A multidisciplinary research group was involved in...