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Aetiological associations in infantile colic: an hypothesis
Author(s) -
THOMAS DAVID B.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
journal of paediatrics and child health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.631
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1440-1754
pISSN - 1034-4810
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1754.1981.tb01963.x
Subject(s) - medicine , infantile colic , etiology , forceps delivery , incidence (geometry) , forceps , pediatrics , obstetrics , pregnancy , surgery , vaginal delivery , crying , psychiatry , physics , biology , optics , genetics
. One hundred and thirty consecutively‐born babies were studied prospectively to determine whether events during labour could predispose the infant to develop infantile colic. The incidence of colic was 35%. Significant factors in colicky babies were primiparous mothers, prolonged labour, forceps delivery and epidural anaesthesia.