"The link between erythromycin and pyloric stenosis is an important finding which will make a difference to the health of babies," said the study's principal investigator, Barbara E. Mahon ...

Peering over the bassinette where my newborn son was sleeping next to ... This is especially true if your baby didn’t receive the erythromycin antibiotic ointment after birth.

Newborns are more likelier to develop a serious intestinal disorder if they are given the commonly prescribed antibiotic erythromycin, say US scientists. A research team from Lousiana University ...

Record the pulse. Clean the tiny body. And squeeze a thin ribbon of antibiotic goo across the newborn's eyes. That bit of goo, called erythromycin ointment, is now at the heart of a debate between ...

Silver nitrate is no longer used (it actually caused transient toxic pink eye in 50 to 90 per cent of newborns) in favour of erythromycin — now the only available treatment in Canada.

Still, there may be certain situations in which giving erythromycin to everyone is better than watchful waiting. For example, if more than 3.4 percent of the newborns were hospitalized with ...

The feeding policy was uniform in all babies. Those in the ‘erythromycin’ group received the drug at a dose of 1 mg/kg every 8 h. We used erythromycin ethylsuccinate oral suspension ...

West Virginia could end a mandate that newborns receive prophylactic ointment ... issue seems quite futile,” Kattouf said, noting that erythromycin “has minimal to zero risk profile, is ...

Erythromycin, a non-peptide motilin receptor agonist, induces phase 3 of the migrating motor complex (MMC) in the antro-duodenum and also reduces oro-cecal transit time. A pediatric study has ...

Because the early results obtained by these workers seemed favorable and encouraging, ¶ and particularly because erythromycin might prove useful in the treatment of staphylococcal infections ...

Erythromycin A produced in E. coli for first time: Biosynthetic breakthrough paves way for other pharmaceuticals Date: November 26, 2010 Source: Tufts University Summary: For the first time ...