135: Maternal Diet: A Social Determinant of Breastfeeding Practice

Breastfeeding and maternal diet in atopic dermatitis.

QUESTION Many children are affected by atopic dermatitis (AD) at a very young age. I often consider whether nonpharmacologic interventions could prevent or mitigate the development of AD. Do breastfeeding or changes to the maternal diet help prevent the development of childhood AD? ANSWER The American Academy of Pediatrics suggests that lactating mothers with infants at high risk of developin...

Update: Can breastfeeding and maternal diet prevent atopic dermatitis?

Correlation of Maternal Obesity and Exclusive Breastfeeding

Background: Many factors affect exclusive breastfeeding, include method of delivery, parity, maternal age and education, smoking, ethnicity, pregnancy complications, infant health, and environmental factors such as hospital practices, and social support. Recently, maternal obesity has been suggested as a risk factor for poor breast-feeding practices whose role has not...

Exclusive breastfeeding--the relationship between maternal perception and practice.

BACKGROUND The behaviour adopted by individuals is moulded by their perception of various issues. In spite of well established benefits of exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) to babies, mothers and society, the EBF practice rate (EBFPr) in our environment has remained low. OBJECTIVE To evaluate mother's perception of exclusive breastfeeding and determine the relationship between such view and their...

[Breastfeeding and maternal medications].

OBJECTIVE To contribute with information about the adequate administration of drugs during breastfeeding. SOURCES OF DATA MEDLINE articles from 1993 to 2004, and Lilacs articles from 1995 to 2004 were selected in Portuguese, Spanish and English, by including the following keywords: breastfeeding, lactation, drugs and medicines. Other updated references found in articles and books were also in...