Weaning is the process of getting babies used to food other than breast milk or formula milk. Homemade baby food is preferable, including a varied selection of foods, starting from rice porridge followed by adding meat, vegetables, and fruits as appropriate. Baby food gradually becomes solid until the age of one when the babies can eat rice without further preparation. Avoid salt till the age of one, and even thereafter try not to make the baby food salty. Start adding meat from six months, and include meat on a daily basis when the baby is growing fast. Babies can self-feed by hand at 8 months of age and then can learn how to use a spoon. If the time to start weaning is too delayed or the way of weaning is not appropriate, feeding problems may ensue, which can potentially lead to developmental problems. It is important to remind that the weaning process is not just giving baby food as a source of nutrition for growth? It is a way of building a family bond and is a starting point of nourishing a healthy eating habit.
Diet* ; Eating ; Fruit ; Hand ; Humans ; Infant ; Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena ; Meat ; Milk ; Milk, Human ; Vegetables ; Weaning*

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Child* ; Humans ; Tuberculosis*

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Gelatin Sponge, Absorbable* ; Hemorrhage* ; Thrombin*

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Osteoporosis* ; Spondylolisthesis*

In 1883 Fournier, a French venereologist, described 5 patients with unexplained fulminating gangrene of the male genitalia. Fournier emphasized 3 characteristics 1) the abrupt onset in a young, healthy male subjects, 2) the rapid progression to gangrene and 3) the absence of a discernible cause. As currently used by many authors, Fournier's gangrene describes a widely destructive, gangrenous process of the genitalia, with little regard for Fournier's original tenets of patient's age or definable etiology. Early identification and prompt initiation of medical and surgical therapy is imperative. We report two cases of Fournier's gangrene with brief review of the literatures.
Fournier Gangrene* ; Gangrene ; Genitalia ; Genitalia, Male ; Humans ; Male

Diffuse large B cell lymphoma (DLBCL), being one of the major subtypes of non-Hodgikin’s lymphoma, is marked by extranodal involvement. In patients with DLBCL, the stomach and gastrointestinal tract are commonly involved, but few cases have reported the involvement with the middle ear cavity and temporal bone. The present study reports a patient diagnosed with DLBCL characterized by middle ear cavity involvement. We also reviewed other similar cases in the literature.

PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to investigate factors affecting the experience of depression in school-aged children from multicultural families. METHODS: Data from 1,812 school-aged children of multicultural families were collected from the 2015 National Multicultural Family Survey. Logistic regression was conducted based on complex sample analysis using SAS 9.4. RESULTS: Significant predictors for experiencing depression were lower self-esteem, lower Korean proficiency, less time spent conversing with the father, lower degree of parental interest, poorer school adjustment, greater difficulties with schoolwork, and experiencing violence at school. CONCLUSION: This study showed that factors related to the individual, family, and school environment influenced the experience of depression. Based on a consideration of these factors, it is necessary to develop an effective program to prevent depression by establishing high-risk criteria for depression.
Child* ; Cultural Diversity ; Depression* ; Fathers ; Humans ; Logistic Models ; Parents ; Violence

BACKGROUND: Spinal 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) has been shown to display an antinociceptive effect, which is mediated by 5-HT receptors. Previous studies have revealed the presence of at least four types of 5-HT receptors in the spinal cord. The aim of this study was to assess the role of each spinal 5-HT receptor in the antinociception of intrathecal 5-HT using the formalin test. METHODS: Rats were implanted with lumbar intrathecal catheters. After the administration of 5-HT, formalin-induced nociceptive behavior (flinching response) was observed for 60 min. To further clarify the role of the 5-HT receptors in the antinociception of 5-HT, several antagonists of 5-HT receptors were administered intrathecally 10 min before 5-HT delivery, and formalin was injected 10 min later. RESULTS: Intrathecal 5-HT dose-dependently suppressed flinching during phase 1 and 2 in the formalin test. 5-HT1B (GR 55562), 5-HT2C (N-desmethylclozapine), 5-HT3 (LY-278,584) and 5-HT4 (SDZ-205,557) receptors antagonists reversed this antinociception by 5-HT during both phases in the formalin test. 5-HT1A receptor antagonist (WAY-100635) decreased antinociception by 5-HT in phase 2, but not in phase 1. A 5-HT1D receptor antagonist (BRL 15572) did not antagonize the antinociception of 5-HT in either phases. CONCLUSIONS: Spinal 5-HT1B, 5-HT2C, 5-HT3 and 5-HT4 receptors, but not the 5-HT1D receptor, are involved in the antinociception of serotonin in the facilitated state and in the acute pain evoked by a formalin stimulus. The 5-HT1A receptor seems to play a role in 5-HT-induced antinociception in the facilitated state.
Acute Pain ; Animals ; Catheters ; Formaldehyde ; Pain Measurement ; Rats* ; Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT1A ; Receptor, Serotonin, 5-HT1D ; Receptors, Serotonin ; Receptors, Serotonin, 5-HT4 ; Serotonin* ; Spinal Cord*

OBJECTIVE: The maternal stress measurement from the heart rate variability and the fetal stress measurement from the fetal heart rate variability in non-stress test (NST) were conducted and the correlation between two measurements was calculated. METHODS: From June 2004 to August 2004, 30 cases who visited for antenatal care and admitted at our hospital above 27 weeks of pregnancy were analyzed for tests. The test consists of simultaneous 20-minute non-stress test and 5-minute stress test in stable state of supine position. From measurement and analysis of fetal heart rate variability in NST and maternal stress, three factors -- balance of an autonomic nervous system, an activity of a sympathetic nervous system, and an activity of a parasympathetic nervous system -- were calculated and analyzed. RESULTS: A Pearson correlation coefficient of the LF/HF ratio of mother and fetus did not show the high significance for the whole population (whose value was -0.014), but after clustering the population according to the gestational age, LF/HF ratio, norm LF, and norm HF for mothers in 38 weeks of pregnancy showed highly positive correlation -- the values were 0.760 (p-value 0.011), 0.569, and 0.569, respectively; the cluster of mothers in 38 weeks was the largest one in the population. And value of a mother in four different week also showed positive correlation (0.801). CONCLUSION: A noninvasive method for measurement of fetal stress was suggested and positive correlation between maternal stress and fetal stress was observed. Thus positive feedback may be expected by maternal stress relieving methods, such as aroma therapy and psychosocial support, and the possibility and basis for the evaluation of the effectiveness on maternal and fetal stability by prenatal education was settled.
Aromatherapy ; Autonomic Nervous System ; Exercise Test ; Female ; Fetus* ; Gestational Age ; Heart Rate* ; Heart Rate, Fetal ; Heart* ; Humans ; Mothers* ; Parasympathetic Nervous System ; Pregnancy ; Prenatal Education ; Supine Position ; Sympathetic Nervous System

Fura-2 analogs are ratiometric fluoroprobes that are widely used for the quantitative measurement of [Ca2+]. However, the dye usage is intrinsically limited, as the dyes require ultraviolet (UV) excitation, which can also generate great interference, mainly from nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) autofluorescence. Specifically, this limitation causes serious problems for the quantitative measurement of mitochondrial [Ca2+], as no available ratiometric dyes are excited in the visible range. Thus, NADH interference cannot be avoided during quantitative measurement of [Ca2+] because the majority of NADH is located in the mitochondria. The emission intensity ratio of two different excitation wavelengths must be constant when the fluorescent dye concentration is the same. In accordance with this principle, we developed a novel online method that corrected NADH and Fura-2-FF interference. We simultaneously measured multiple parameters, including NADH, [Ca2+], and pH/mitochondrial membrane potential; Fura-2-FF for mitochondrial [Ca2+] and TMRE for Psi(m) or carboxy-SNARF-1 for pH were used. With this novel method, we found that the resting mitochondrial [Ca2+] concentration was 1.03 microM. This 1 microM cytosolic Ca2+ could theoretically increase to more than 100 mM in mitochondria. However, the mitochondrial [Ca2+] increase was limited to ~30 microM in the presence of 1 microM cytosolic Ca2+. Our method solved the problem of NADH signal contamination during the use of Fura-2 analogs, and therefore the method may be useful when NADH interference is expected.
Animals ; Calcium ; Coloring Agents ; Cytosol ; Fura-2 ; Hydrogen-Ion Concentration ; Membrane Potential, Mitochondrial ; Membrane Potentials ; Mitochondria ; Muscle Cells* ; NAD* ; Rats*