Breast feeding may protect children against campylobacter jejuni associated diarrhoea

Several new organisms including Aeromonas and Campylobacter jejuni have been added to the list of diarrhoea causing bacterial agents during the last decade. The present study was undertaken to investigate the bacterial aetiology of infantile diarrhoea in Karachi. Effect of different epidemiological factors on the frequency of these infections was also studied. One hundred and eighty rectal swab samples were collected from patients attending the Diarrhoea Unit at the National Institute of Child Health, Karachi and out patient Department of the Abbassi Shaheed Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan. The samples were processed according to standard procedures. C. Jejuni and A. hydrophila were found to be the most common bacterial agents of infantile diarrhoea in Karachi followed by S. typhi and Sh. dysentriae. Breast fed children were found to be completely protected against C. jejuni infection, and they were at a lower risk of other diarrhoea causing bacterial infections as compared to those who were fed by bottle milk. Unboiled water used for the preparation of infant milk formula was found to be the major factor involved in the epidemiology of infectious diarrhoea

Maternal characteristics and infant and young child feeding in Benghazi

Two hundred [200] mothers consecutively attending Al-Fateh Paediatric Hospital, Benghazi in 1992 were interviewed. The majority of women were under 30 years of age, had primary or no education, were housewives, had no experience of pregnancy wastage or child loss, used no contraception, had one to three living children, had information about breast-feeding from the mother-in-law, a relative or a neighbour, considered breast-feeding a natural way, nutritionally superior and hygienic, and practised mixed feeding. The reasons for introducing artificial feeding were maternal in 49.7% of cases, filial [related to the baby] in 36.5% and due to social pressure in 13.8%. Measures for successful breast-feeding are emphasized

Lactation management in NWFP

This study was conducted in the Lactation Management Clinic of Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, from March 1992 to June 1995 and a total of 3124 mother and infant pairs were studied for lactation related problems and events. A total of 1752 mothers [56.08%] were already following optimum breast feeding practices, their positive behaviour was reinforced; 596 [19.08%] mothers were partially breast feeding their babies while 776 [24.84%] mothers were completely bottle feeding their babies because of lactation failure. Relactation was tried in all mothers [n=1372] who had lactation failure or were partially breast feeding their babies and it was successful in 778 [56.71%] mothers. Failures were mostly in out-patient cases because of poor compliance and lack of follow up visits. Relactation was also tried in 10 grandmothers, because of failed relactation in mothers or death of the mothers. It was successful in 9 cases [90%]. Induced lactation was tried in two women for 2 months, who never had been pregnant and had adopted babies, but this was unsuccessful

Breast feeding and artificial feeding in infants with Tetralogy of Fallot

This work aimed to study the physical growth of 30 cases with TOF [26 males, 14 females] with age ranging from 14 days to 6 months, 20 cases were breast-fed and 20 cases were artificially-fed. This done by taking full history, clinical examination, anthropometric measurements [weight, length, head and chest circumferences and skin fold thickness]. Infants with TOF showed various degrees of growth retardation, which may be due to tissue anoxia, insufficient nutrient intake, malabsorption, hypermetablism, hypocellularity, dysphagia and recurrent respiratory tract infections. The study found no difference between breast and bottle feeding. Though breast feeding is the ideal method of feeding infants with cardiac problems, especially those with TOF due to the plenty of advantages of breast milk

Initiation of neonatal feeding at maternity hospitals in Egypt

This work was conducted on 500 mothers and their respective neonates who were delivered and randomly recruited from different maternity hospitals at Cairo, so as to identify the type and time of initiation of neonatal feeding. A predesigned questionnaire was used, based on WHO formulation, to collect data from mothers about initiation of neonatal feeding. The study revealed 57 percent of mothers were practicing colostrum feeding. However, almost half of mothers [46.9 percent] ignored the value of giving colostrum, and 0.3 percent of mothers denied completely its value. Prelacteal feeds, mainly dextrose 5 percent and/or surgary water, were given by the majority of mothers [92.4 percent]. A high percentage of mothers [70 percent] initiated breastfeeding 24 hours after delivery while those who initiated <1 hour after delivery were only 1.4 percent. So, it is assumable that the practice of [BF] among mothers was higher than their grades of knowledge and attitude [P<0.05]. Delayed initiation of [BF] was owed to maternal causes; no milk let down [64 percent], mothers exhaustion [31.4 percent] and breast problems [30.5 percent] followed by medical factors as postpartum medication [33.6 percent], medical advice [16.4 percent] and no rooming-in practice [10.6 percent]. Neonatal factors as prematurity [3.6 percent] and refusal of newborn to suck [1.6 percent] represented the minority of conditions. Exclusive [BF] was practiced only by 7.6 percent of mothers, while 78 percent of neonates were predominantly breastfed and 4 percent of neonates were formula fed. Therefore this study attributes most of the factors impeding the practice of early initiation of BF either to the lack of knowledge of mothers or the lack of antenatal and postnatal care for both mothers and their infants

Personology of breast and bottle fed children

Much work has been done on advantages and disadvantages of bottle feeding regarding medical point of view but the aspects of personality make up with respect to mode of feed have yet to be explored in detail Present study highlights some psychological aspects of personality of the children [aged 5 to 10 years] who were breastfed or bottlefed during their lactation period. After collecting the data of more or less matched groups of both breast and bottlefed it was seen that breastfed babies are more psychologically secure and show less emotional problems, as compared to bottlefed who are less secure and show more emotional conflicts

Lactancia materna en grupos urbanos / Mother lactancy in urban groups

Se trata de un estudio descriptivo sobre la situacion de la lactancia materna en la ciudad de La Paz, en madres de condicion socioeconomica baja que acudieron a la consulta ginecologica de un dispensario medico popular que brinda atencion sanitaria gratuita.