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Pacifier (Dummy) Use and	Hits:1
Systematic review Results Usual use Last sleep use Comment Sudden infant death rates have fallen substantially over the past few decades, as the importance of sleeping position, parental smoking and other factors have been understood and...	03/01/2014
Antibiotics for childhoo	Hits:1
Review Outcomes Results Comment Another winter with its colds and coughs and grumpy people complaining either that their GP wouldn't give them or their children antibiotics, or if they did, the antibiotics didn't help. It...	03/01/2014
Constipation in children	Hits:1
Study Results Comment Bandolier 65 we featured an audit on laxative use in Shropshire which identified 12 children under 16 years (seven per 100,000 population) who had used stimulant laxatives for a mean of 3.8 years...	03/01/2014
Family/parenting interve	Hits:1
Systematic review Results Comment Repetitive and persistent antisocial behaviour in adolescents is probably familiar to all of us. Technically it is called conduct disorder, and affects between 1 and 3% (though it often seems much more...	03/01/2014
Fluoride gel and caries	Hits:1
Review Results Comment The prevalence of caries in children in many countries in Western Europe and North America has declined dramatically in the last few decades. Reasons for this include the widespread use of fluoride toothpastes, and...	03/01/2014
Handwashing and diarrhoe	Hits:1
Clinical bottom line Washing hands with soap can dramatically reduce diarrhoeal diseases. Reference V Curtis, S Cairncross. Effect of washing hands with soap on diarrhoea risk in the community: a systematic review. Lancet...	03/01/2014
Inhaled steroids in chil	Hits:1
Outcome reporting Results Adding theophylline to inhaled steroid Results Long-acting inhaled -agonists Results Comment Bandolier is frequently asked to "do more on asthma". There is no "quick fix" because asthma is a complicated subject,...	03/01/2014
Incidence of Perthes' di	Hits:1
Northern Ireland Liverpool Comment Someone once told Bandolier that 6% of us have a rare disease. Those rare diseases are many and varied, so many and varied, in fact, that the majority of us will rarely or never have heard of more...	03/01/2014
Pre-school vision screen	Hits:1
Screening issues Systematic reviews Comment Bandolier has been asked about the value of testing children for amblyopia, defined as a unilateral or, rarely, bilateral decrease of vision for which no obvious cause can be found on...	03/01/2014
Relaxation and biofeedba	Hits:1
Clinical bottom line: Relaxation training probably reduces chronic headache and migraine in children and adolescents. Relaxation is probably as effective as other non-pharmacological interventions. There appear to be long-term benefits...	03/01/2014
Springtime hypoglycaemia	Hits:1
Studies Results Comment The suggestion that hypoglycaemia might be more frequent in diabetic children in the Spring has been around for some time [1]. But other than something occasionally discussed, it does not seem to have been...	03/01/2014
Tonsillectomy for sore t	Hits:1
Review Results Comment Tonsillectomy is a common operation, with over 70,000 being carried out every year. The main reason for doing it is to prevent recurrent throat infection - either tonsillitis or pharyngitis. How well does...	03/01/2014
Tonsillectomy: bleeding	Hits:1
Review Results Comment Tonsillectomy is a common operation, and in by far the majority of cases is carried out without any complications. One of concern is postoperative bleeding. In the first 24 hours it is an immediate consequence of...	03/01/2014
Treatments for impetigo	Hits:1
Systematic review Results Topical antibiotic vs placebo Topical antibiotic vs oral antibiotic Mupirocin vs fusidic acid Comment Impetigo is a common bacterial skin infection that affects about 1 in 35 of under-4s and 1 in 60 of under-15s...	03/01/2014
Verrucas and games	Hits:1
Bandoliers GP callers do ask some hard questions. One, faced with the problem of a schoolgirl patient not being allowed to take swimming in school because she had a verruca, challenged Bandolier to find any evidence that there was risk...	03/01/2014