Wet-Nursing and Rickets

Sharing breastmilk: wet nursing, cross feeding, and milk donations.

Wet nursing and cross feeding both involve the breastfeeding of a child by someone other than the mother. Wet nursing involves a woman who is not the social equal of the employer, is never reciprocal, and is normally for payment. Cross feeding (also 'cross nursing') is the informal sharing of breastfeeding between equals, and is usually unpaid and may be reciprocal. Community attitudes in the l...

Wet nursing: a history from antiquity to the present

Why are modern-day Americans, especially members of the "baby boom" generation, so obsessed with health and physical fitness, despite the tremendous medical advances of the past hundred years? In Able-bodied womanhood, Martha H. Verbrugge suggests we must look beyond strictly medical explanations for an answer to this apparent paradox. Expanding upon the work of Lester S. King, Susan Sontag, an...

Rickets

Rickets in Tehranian Children: Occurance of Chronic Sinusitis and Giardiosis in Late Rickets

SUMMARY A review of out patients diagnosed with rickets during last one and half year revealed 135 cases of rickets among totally 1550 patients refered to our pediatric infectious clinics. Diagnosis were made by the clinical, biochemical, radiological and pathological findings. All the patients were treated by Vit D as needed, follow up examinations were done at least for 6m. We could not see ...

199 - Osteomalacia and rickets*

1997 Vitamin D is converted in the liver by a vitamin D-25-hydroxylase (25-OHase) to form the major circulating form of vitamin D, 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D]. There have been at least four different 25-OHases identified both in mitochrondia and in microsomes. 25(OH)D is, however, biologically inert and requires hydroxylation in the kidneys on carbon 1 by the CYP27B mitrochondrial enzyme 25-h...