Presence of Meconium

In class last week, one of my students had a question about meconium (baby's first stool) presence in the amniotic fluid and possible aspiration. She was wondering about how meconium aspiration syndrome was diagnosed and treated. I found a concise article in the PubMed Health Dictionary about MAS, that pretty well covers the questions asked. It is good to know that in not all cases of presence of meconium in the amniotic fluid is it inhaled requiring treatment and in general there are no long term health effects.