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Preventing Deaths in Children

Preventing Deaths in Children
Start Date :
Feb 18, 2015
Last Date :
Mar 19, 2015
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Our country has made significant progress in bringing down the number of death among children below 5 years. However the number of child deaths is still very high. Children are ...

Our country has made significant progress in bringing down the number of death among children below 5 years. However the number of child deaths is still very high. Children are particularly vulnerable to malnutrition and infectious diseases, many of which can be prevented and managed with appropriate timely interventions. Through this platform Department of Health Research/ Indian Council of Medical research invites suggestions, views, best practices, innovative ideas to be tested through research to improve health of children and prevent avoidable deaths.

The last date for submission of your comments is 18th March, 2015.

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Doctor Hemant Joshi
Doctor Hemant Joshi 11 years 3 months ago
Save 1000 newborns daily with oral cefixime 8 Page 206-207 Abstracts Pedicon 2003 .The 40th Annual conference of Indian Academy of Paediatrics ( explaination of some medical terms in simple English for all ) Sepsis: Illness due to infection. OF EARLY ONSET SEPSIS IN NEONATES : illness due to infection in first week of life.
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Doctor Hemant Joshi 11 years 3 months ago
Save 1000 newborns daily with oral cefixime 7 Cefixime is oral. Affordable, available medicine to save thousands of newborns daily. DO not neglect this letter. Try it. Give up if it fails. Those who oppose this contribute to 1000 + newborn deaths by obstructing life saving idea.
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Doctor Hemant Joshi 11 years 3 months ago
Conslusion : Oral cefixime appears to be safe and effective alternative to parentally administered ampicillin and tobramycin in preventing early onset sepsis in infants at risk of infection.
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Doctor Hemant Joshi 11 years 3 months ago
Conslusion : Oral cefixime appears to be safe and effective alternative to parentally administered ampicillin and tobramycin
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Doctor Hemant Joshi 11 years 3 months ago
Save 1000 newborns daily with oral cefixime 6 Focal infection developed in 2 infants in the cefixime group.( conjunctivitis 2, pyoderma 1).We also noted that some babies did not like the taste of oral cefixime as noted by their facial expression while taking the drug.
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Doctor Hemant Joshi 11 years 3 months ago
Save 1000 newborns daily with oral cefixime 5 Results: 124 neonates were enrolled ( 56 in oral cefixime, 68 in parental ampicillin tobramycin group ). The groups were comparable for weight, gestation, duration and type of antibiotic received prior to delivery and risk factors for sepsis. Only one baby in cefixime group developed septicaemia. Side effects of oral cefixime included vomiting in 3 infants ( 5.4%) and increased stooling frequency in 8 infants (14.4 %).
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Doctor Hemant Joshi 11 years 3 months ago
Save 1000 newborns daily with oral cefixime 4 Those born on odd dates were given intravenous ampicillin and tobramycin and served as control. Antibiotics were given for 5 days.Cord samples of babies were evaluated for Hb, TLC, DLC, general blood picture, micro Esr, and C reactive protein. Babies were followed up daily in hospital for signs and symptoms suggestive of sepsis and any adverse effect of drugs.
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Doctor Hemant Joshi 11 years 3 months ago
Save 1000 newborns daily with oral cefixime 3 Babies with birth asphyxia, meconeum aspiration syndrome, any other condition which precluded oral feeding e.g. apneic spells were excluded. Also excluded were babies who developed septicaemia within 8 hours of birth despite receiving prophylactic antibiotics. Neonates born on even dates were given oral cefixime 8 mg/kg./day as a single dose within 2 hours of birth.
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Doctor Hemant Joshi 11 years 3 months ago
Save 1000 newborns daily with oral cefixime 2 Setting : Neonatology unit of tertiary hospital. Methods: Babies of gestational age of 34 weeks or more and birth weight of 1.8kg. or more with one or more of following risk factors were included.: (1). Leaking per vagina > 18 hours. (2) Maternal intrapartum fever ( > 38 degrees centigrade), and ( 3 ) foul smelling liquor. All these babies were otherwise healthy and asymptomatic at birth.
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Doctor Hemant Joshi 11 years 3 months ago
Learn & Save 1000 newborns daily with oral cefixime 1 They die with sepsis.See details in following paragraphs.1 ORAL CEFIXIME IN PREVENTION OF EARLY ONSET SEPSIS IN NEONATES Amita Sinha, Ashok Kumar, Shampa Anupurba, V. Bhargava Department of Paediatrics Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi 221005 Objective:To compare the efficacy & safety of oral cefixime with parental ampicillin & tobramycin in prevention of early onset neonatal septicaemia
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