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Vlad Guz giving a TEDxKings Park Youth talk in 2023. Source: TEDxKings Park
Born two weeks early, six-month-old Braxton Lewis’ entry to the world could have been vastly different if not for a service dedicated to improving pregnancy outcomes for Aboriginal women in WA’s East Pilbara.
Sensitive and non-invasive surveillance tools are needed for the clinical management of infants and preschool children with cystic fibrosis (CF). The lung clearance index from the multiple breath washout and functional and morphological outcomes from magnetic resonance imaging provide promising alternatives to current gold standard techniques. Early detection and treatment of lung disease during this important period offers the opportunity to improve the quality of life for individuals with CF.
Language is a robust developmental phenomenon, characterised by rapid and prodigious growth.
Nutrition is one of the most easily modifiable environmental factors during early life that may play a role in allergic disease prevention.
Vitamin D status in early life has been linked to the risk of allergic disease in multiple observational studies.
In this review we examine maternal and infant dietary sources of prebiotics with a particular focus on non-digestible oligosaccharides, which undergo SCFA.
Strategies to prevent early-life food allergen sensitisation prior to commencement of solid foods are needed and should be the focus of future research
With rising levels of physical and mental health issues, ensuring children establish good physical activity behaviours early in life is more important than ever.
When an infant is developmentally ready, a variety of nutritious foods should be introduced including the ‘more allergenic’ foods during infancy