Refusal of feeds, inconsolable cry and abdominal pains were the three most frequent incorrect features of colic wrongly identified as correct features.
The incorrect features identified by the mothers such as refusal of feeds, inconsolable cry, abdominal pain, crying all day, fever and passage of loose stool are presenting features of malaria, sepsis or other life-threatening infectious diseases in infants [ 46].
Typically, symptoms begin after weaning with refusal of feeding, vomiting and consequent failure to thrive.
Question 6 tested the ability of the health workers to recognize signs of danger or complications in NNJ and only 30 (45.5%) were able to choose the six correct answers which were: refusal of feed, high-pitched cry, arching of the back, convulsions, down-turning of the eyes and fever.
Measurements of feed intake and collection of feeds, feed refusals, feces, rumen fluid, and blood samples were taken.
Individual goat refusals of feed were weighed daily and stored at 4°C until analyzed for dry matter (DM).
Mr. Abate had staged several hunger strikes during the year in protest of the prison system's refusal to feed him what he called an Ethiopian Orthodox diet.
At the same time, there are moments of physical inaction, but where the dialogue is absolutely riveting, as when Samantha Morton, playing Packer's chief of theory, expounds on time and the futility of refusal, how destruction feeds into the reaffirmation of power and control.
The signs consisted of repeated vomiting of feed and occurred in seven out of the ten cats tested, starting on the second day of feeding the high dose (i.e., on study day 56), accompanied by refusal of test feed in three cats (see Table 1).
After this third refusal, the feeding episode was considered terminated.
Some women reported feeling pressured, judged and discriminated against by medical staff for their decisions or preferences, particularly in relation to decisions about place of birth (home or hospital), mode of birth (vaginal or caesarean section), refusal of medical intervention, and infant feeding (breast milk or infant formula).
