Complication of Early Banana Feeding in Neonates

  • E. M. Halimun Department of Surgery Medical School University of Indonesia, Jakarta
  • Joko Sunyoto Department of Surgery Medical School University of Indonesia, Jakarta
  • S. K. Hutomo Department of Surgery Medical School University of Indonesia, Jakarta
  • Oen L. H. Department of Biochemistry, Harapan Kita Children & Maternity Hospital, Jakarta
  • V. Yuwono Department of Pathology, Harapan Kita Children & Maternity Hospital, Jakarta
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14238/pi33.3-4.1993.59-63
Keywords: early introduction; newborn; gastric perforation; NEC; phytobezoar

Abstract

Early introduction of banana in newborn babies is still practiced by many mothers from different areas throughout the country and gastric perforation due to phytobezoars are sttll a problem tn the country.

During the years 1984 through 1991 at the Children and Maternity Hospital Harapan Kita jakarta, fifteen neonates were treated for gastric perforation among which 6 were due to banana bezoar, 6 were due to deject of the gastric muscle, 2 were due to necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) and 1 was due to iatrogenic duodenal obstruction.

Pathogenesis of gastric perforation due to phytobezoar and the macroscopic and histopathological appearance of the perforation and its differences with perforations due to other causes were discussed.

References

1. Haas SV. American Journal Disease Children, 1924; 28: 421 cited from Loeseche.
2. Bogert LJ. Dietery uses of the Bananas in Health and Diseases. United Fruit Co. Research Department
New York 1942. Cited from Loeseche.
3. Lee SP. Holloway WD and Nicholson GI. The Medical Dissolution of Phytobezoars Using Cellulose.
Br.J.Surg. 1977; 64: 403-5.
4. Holloway WD, Lee SP and Nicholson GI. The Composition and Dissolution of Phytobezoars. Arch Pathol. Lab. Med. 1980; 104: 159-61.
5. Sanderson I, Jbberson 0, Fish EB. Gaslric Phytobezoars Following Gasuectomy. Can. Med. Assoc. J. 1971; 104: 1115.
6. Zarling EJ and Thomson LE. Non persimmon Gastric Phytobezoar. Arch Intern Med 1984; 144: 959-61.
7. Loeseche HW. Bananas Interscience Publishers. Inc. New York, 1950.
Published
2018-12-12
How to Cite
1.
Halimun E, Sunyoto J, Hutomo S, H. O, Yuwono V. Complication of Early Banana Feeding in Neonates. PI [Internet]. 12Dec.2018 [cited 26Apr.2024];33(3-4):59-3. Available from: https://paediatricaindonesiana.org/index.php/paediatrica-indonesiana/article/view/2062
Issue
Vol 33 No 3-4 (1993): March - April 1993
Section
Articles

Copyright (c) 2018 E. M. Halimun, Joko Sunyoto, S. K. Hutomo, Oen L. H., V. Yuwono

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Received 2018-12-12
Published 2018-12-12