Open AccessGripe Water Administration in Infants 1-6 months of Age-A Cross-sectional Study
Author(s) -
Keerthi Jain,
Dhandapany Gunasekaran,
Venkatesh Chandrasekaran,
S. Palanisamy
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2015/13727.6738
Subject(s) - medicine , pediatrics , vomiting , constipation , odds ratio , cross sectional study , inclusion and exclusion criteria , population , environmental health , anesthesia , alternative medicine , pathology
Gripe water (GW) administration to young infants is common practice in this part of country. In order to ascertain why mothers administer gripe water to their infants and to find out what benefits or health risks it poses, we proposed to study the practice of mothers giving GW to their babies.