Background: Exclusive breastfeeding is the best pattern for feeding infants in the first 6 months of life. On the other hand, lactation patterns may be influenced by cultural factors. The present study aimed to determine relationships of Hofstede's cultural dimensions and lactation patterns in lactating mother. Material...

Background: Breastfeeding is the process of giving mother's milk to babies from birth two years. Exclusive breastfeeding can protect and children against dangerous diseases strengthens affection (bonding) between mother child. However, exclusive coverage rate still low due failure breastfeed. One factors that influence in be caused by not releasing milk. The smoothness strongly influenced psych...

Background: In Nigeria, there is paucity of information on exposure to aflatoxin by lactating women and children. Aflatoxin (AFs) are potent carcinogens that are produced as secondary metabolites of strains of Aspergillus parasiticus and Aspergillus flavus that grow on important food crops such as groundnuts, maize and other oilseeds .Present study reports on the aflatoxin exposure of lactating...

  Asparagus racemosus Willd. has repeatedly been mentioned as a galactogogue in Ayurvedic literature and has been confirmed through animal experiments as well. This randomized double-blind clinical trial evaluates its galactogogue effect in 60 lactating mothers by measurement of changes in their prolactin hormone level during the study. Several secondary parameters namely mothers’ weight, babie...