Correlation of lactoferrin levels in breast milk with maternal haemoglobin percentage among lactating women of low and high socioeconomic status

ABSTRACT

Background: Due to considerable lack of knowledge among working class women and housewives [with no/low literacy level] about the prime sources of dietary iron and the use for their own health during child bearing age is a dilemma that affects the entire family system resulting in decreased haemoglobin level and consequent anaemia during and after pregnancy and its effect on quality of breast milk due to which the child suffers