Talk:Meconium aspiration syndrome
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I am thinking of merging this article and Meconium. Any objections? Any ideas which should be merged into which? Joyous 23:33, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)
It would have helped if you had actually merged the articles instead of deleting one of them.
- I didn't delete anything. I did change Meconium into a redirect to this article in preparation for expanding it. You can easily access the old article and its history, if you think there's any information that needs to be added to this one. Joyous 19:50, Jan 23, 2005 (UTC)
I don't see how the syndrome and the substance are the same thing - it's like saying the topic on Cancer and the topic on Brain should be merged, because one can be connected with the other. No game. 172.152.186.241
- It's not at all like merging Brain and Cancer because "one can be connected with the other," and nothing in this article suggests that the substance and the syndrome are the same thing. There is much to say about brains and cancer separately. There's not much to say about meconium other than that "it's an infant's first stool, and it's made up of this stuff and that stuff." One or two lines and you're done. All the resources I've looked at described meconium as a lead-in to a more extended discussion of the syndrome. Joyous 19:40, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
Note - are there any other illnesses that can result from Meconium? If so, I say move this page to Meconium and build off of that.
- Meconium aspiration syndrome isn't a single disease, like chickenpox or cholera. It's a syndrome, a collection of symptoms that may vary from child to child. As far as I know, there's not much else that can happen with meconium to cause illness other than being inhaled by the infant while in the womb or during delivery. Any of the complications that stem from that inhalation fall under the heading of MAS. If the bulk of the article is going to be about the syndrome that occurs when it's inhaled, why not have the article be under the name of that syndrome? Joyous 19:40, Feb 6, 2005 (UTC)
This page needs to be enlarged. Isn't this the page describing the condition which led to the birth of wikipedia?! Coz as reported in the press, Jimbo Wales's child suffered from meconium aspiration and it was an innovative / experimental treatment by the pediatrician which saved her life. EyeMD 17:57, 20 September 2006 (UTC)
