TY - JOUR AU - Musa Caglar PY - 2018/08/16 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Pyridoxine in the Treatment of Tetanus Neonatorum JF - Paediatrica Indonesiana JA - PI VL - 29 IS - 11-12 SE - Neonatology DO - 10.14238/pi29.11-12.1989.233-6 UR - https://paediatricaindonesiana.org/index.php/paediatrica-indonesiana/article/view/1949 AB - A prospective study has been conducted to assess the efficacy of oral pyridoxine in the treatment of neonatal tetanus. A little reduction in mortality was observed by adding pyridoxine to the conventional therapy. The mortality in this group was 50.0% as compared to 62.5% in controls. This result did not confirm the ones in the literature. This could be sourced from the fact that additional injection was 50.0%. ER -