Feeding, stooling and sleeping patterns in infants with colic--a randomized controlled trial of minimal acupuncture.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The aim was to describe the feeding- and stooling patterns of infants with colic and evaluate the influence of minimal acupuncture.

Methods

A prospective, randomized, controlled, blind clinical study was conducted at a private acupuncture clinic in Sweden. 90 otherwise healthy 2-8 weeks old infants, born after gestational week 36, fulfilling the criteria for infantile colic and not medicated with dicyclomine, were included. 81 infants went through a structured program consisting of six visits to the clinic, twice weekly. Infants randomized to receive acupuncture were given minimal, standardized acupuncture for two seconds in LI4. Frequency and size of stooling, as well as duration of, and intervals between, feeding sessions were reported by parents in a diary. Par

SUBMITTER: Landgren K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3212902 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature