Crying and spilling-time to stop the overmedicalisation of normal infant behaviour

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 125, Issue 1367, 2012, Pages 119-126

  Hudson, Ben ^a   Alderton, Anna ^b   Doocey, Claire ^c   Nicholson, Denise ^d   Toop, Les ^a   Day, Andrew S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b General Practitioner/Clinical Facilitator   (New Zealand)

^c CHRISTCHURCH HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^d General Practitioner   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CISAPRIDE; LANSOPRAZOLE; OMEPRAZOLE; PANTOPRAZOLE; PLACEBO; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; RANITIDINE;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CRYING; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DRUG EFFICACY; FOOD REGURGITATION; FRACTURE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMAN; INTERSTITIAL NEPHRITIS; IRRITABILITY; PRESCRIPTION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); STOMACH ACID; STOMACH PH; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ANTI-ULCER AGENTS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CRYING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT BEHAVIOR; INFANT, NEWBORN; OMEPRAZOLE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PROTON PUMP INHIBITORS; VOMITING;

EID: 84872795059     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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