Aims Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) is an autoimmune acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy. Intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIG) are usually the first choice of treatment. At present, limited ...

Objective To determine whether any children in the UK had variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD). Design This active ...

Objective To determine the safety of ciprofloxacin in paediatric patients in relation to arthropathy, any other adverse events (AEs) and drug interactions. Methods A systematic search of MEDLINE, ...

Background The broad-spectrum antiparasitic drug ivermectin is widely used in children, and its use in children weighing < 15 kg is off-label, as little data is available to inform the use of ...

1 Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Working Group on Recognising Acute Illness in Children, London, UK 2 Department of Paediatrics, Imperial College London, London, UK 3 Department ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in childhood and adolescence is an impairing condition, associated with a specific set of distressing symptoms incorporating repetitive, intrusive thoughts ...

Correspondence to Dr Tim Cheetham, Paediatric Endocrinology, Great North Children's Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 4LP, UK; tim.cheetham{at}nhs.net Graves’ disease is a rare disorder that continues ...

Despite the fact that infants spend more time asleep than awake, an understanding of the importance and effects of sleep on the pathophysiology of illness in infancy is a relatively recent development ...

2 Department of Children’s Nursing, Rotherham General Hospital, UK 3 Department of Microbiology, Rotherham General Hospital, UK Correspondence to: Dr P Macfarlane Department of Child Health, Rotherham ...

Objective To determine the safety of ceftriaxone in paediatric patients and systematically evaluate the categories and incidences of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) of ceftriaxone in paediatric patients ...

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 ...

Correspondence to Varpu Elenius, Department of Paediatrics, Turku University Hospital, Box 52, 20521 Turku, Finland; varpu.elenius{at}utu.fi ...