Previous studies have shown that hydrolysed rice protein formula (HRPF) is well tolerated in infants with cow’s milk allergy (CMA). Children receiving HRPF showed similar growth and development of clinical tolerance to those receiving an extensively hydrolysed cow’s milk protein (eHF) formula. We present 3 cases of infants in which CMA symptoms persisted with HRPF feeding, and resolved with an ...

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 breast feeding for six months is the intended target every newborn, but even after decades of efforts by WHO, UNICEF, UN, it still stands at 44% globally. Ground reality was no different in our set up. NICU admission major reason. But heathy newborn roomed with mother were also found to be not exclusively fed. Individualized reasons always cropped up giving formula milk and situation ...

BACKGROUND Human milk is the natural food for full term infants and is the most appropriate milk for the human infants. The objective of the study was to determine the frequency of common reasons of failure of exclusive breastfeeding in children less than six months of age. METHODS It was a cross-sectional study conducted at Rawal institute of health sciences (RIHS) from March to October 2013...

this study was designed to assess the frequency of exclusive breastfeeding in two health centers of shahid beheshti university of medical sciences in khak sefid, tehran, iran. a total of 175 mothers, referred for the third dose of their infants' dpt vaccination program participated in the study by completing a questionnaire regarding characteristics of their pregnancy, delivery and exclusive br...

OBJECTIVE To better understand the mechanisms behind breastfeeding and childhood obesity, we assessed the association of weight gain with the mode of milk delivery aside from the type of milk given to infants. DESIGN A longitudinal study of infants followed up from birth to age 1 year. Multilevel analyses were conducted to estimate infant weight gain by type of milk and feeding mode. SETTIN...

Breast-feeding is a known protective factor against breast cancer. Breast-feeding duration is influenced by hormone levels, milk production, and lifestyle factors. The aims were to investigate how breast-feeding duration and milk production affected tumor characteristics and risk for early breast cancer events in primary breast cancer patients. Between 2002 and 2008, 634 breast cancer patients ...

Mixed feeding confers excess risk of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV compared with exclusive breastfeeding and exclusive formula feeding. We undertook a qualitative and quantitative cross-sectional survey to identify the social determinants of mixed feeding among a subset of the 469 HIV-infected women enrolled in a MTCT prevention program in Jos, Nigeria. Formula was provided free-of...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the factors associated with discontinuation of breast-feeding before 12 months in order to make suggestions for achieving long-term breast-feeding. DESIGN A descriptive cross-sectional study. SETTING Gazi University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey. SUBJECTS Mothers of 1230 children who discontinued breast-feeding at least 15 d before the last visit were asked to fill...

BACKGROUND & METHODS To examine the relationship between breastfeeding and maternally-rated infant temperament at age 3 months, 316 infants in the prospective Cambridge Baby Growth Study, UK had infant temperament assessed at age 3 months by mothers using the Revised Infant Behavior Questionnaire, which produces scores for three main dimensions of temperament derived from 14 subscales. Infant t...