Current status of breast-feeding in Alexandria governorate: a community-based study

This study was carried out to provide baseline data for various indicators measuring breast-feeding and bottle-feeding practices in Alexandria. In 1995, a total of 1080 children aged below 24 months, equally distributed among six age groups, were selected for a household 24-hour dietary survey. The findings indicated that only 42.2% of infants below 4 months were currently exclusively breast-fed, while 21.1% were predominantly breast-fed. Hence, the rate of breast-feeding was 63.3%. The prevalence rate of timely complementary feeding was 62.3%. Continued breast-feeding rate at 1 year was 64.4%, and at 2 years was 33.9%. The bottle-feeding rate [among infants less than 12 months] was 44.3%

Risk of occupational eye injury

Occupational eye injury is one of the common injuries occurring at work. This research used the matched pair case control esign to study 377 pairs of workers. The maximum likelihood estimate of the odds ratio was utilized to statistically evaluate the findings. The results indicated that young age [less than 25 years], inexperience at present work chronic illness, performing unusual tasks and failure to use safety goggles were significant risk factors for occupational eye injury