Likewise the medical community needs to improve efforts to screen patients for suspect CO poisoning and refer affected patients to hyperbaric oxygen centers. Measles remains an important cause of illness and death in many parts of the world. With approximately 30 million cases and 1 million deaths attributed to measles in 1998, this disease remains one of the most important cause of illness and death despite the widespread availability of an effective and safe vaccine. Failure to deliver at least one dose of measles vaccine to all infants remains the primary reason for this preventable illness and death burden. Infants with pyloric stenosis usually have projectile vomiting that begins at about 3 to 4 weeks of age.
Pyloric stenosis is much more common in boys than girls.
Surgical treatment of pyloric stenosis is safe and effective. The rate of pyloric stenosis among babies born at this hospital in February 1999 was nearly seven times higher than among babies born there during the previous 2 years. The seven babies in this investigation who took erythromycin and got pyloric stenosis were less than 3 weeks old when they began taking erythromycin. All seven babies in this investigation who had pyloric stenosis were surgically treated and have recovered. Gastrointestinal symptoms occur frequently in babies taking erythromycin.