Background: Noroviruses are, after rotaviruses, the most common cause of nonbacterial intestinal infections in children. It has been observed a lower incidence of norovirus gastroenteritis in breast-fed compared to formula-fed infants. Effective vaccines against noroviruses are not yet available, enhancing the interest of the protective mechanisms elicited by human milk. Human milk contains a w...

The flow of milk is copious and good, quite enough to satisfy the child, who remains and sleeps with the grandmother. I am given to understand that about 23 years ago the nursed this child's father, he being her husband's son by another wife. In both instances she states that, previous to suckling, the breasts were quite dry, but no sooner she applied these children to the breast, she found a c...

introduction: breast milk is a complete food for growing children until 6 months of age, and mothers, as the most important child health care, play a decisive role in their growth. so promoting  their attitude toward the benefits of breastfeeding ensures guarantee child health in the future. this study aimed to assess maternal knowledge and attitude of mashhad toward exclusive bmf in the first ...

The aim of this study was to determine whether administration of the prodrugs bisacodyl (Bisa) and sodium picosulfate (SPS) leads to excretion of their common active metabolite, bis-(p-hydroxyphenyl)-pyridyl-2-methane (BHPM), in breast milk. Two groups of 8 healthy lactating women who had stopped breast feeding received multiple doses of Bisa or SPS. Plasma, urine, and breast milk were collecte...

this semi-experimental study was conducted to investigate the impact of nutrition education on knowledge of mothers concerning breast-feeding in giassi charity health centre in the south of tehran, yaftabad. breast-feeding and nutritional awareness of 104 randomly selected mothers was assessed before and after a one-month breast-feeding course (three 90-minutes' sessions per week). the proporti...

Homo sapiens has developed during the course of over two million years. The social and physical conditions of life, the availability of milk and infant foods as well as the presence of diseases have all undergone radical transformations from the Stone Age, at first without and then with fire, to the hunter-gatherer, farmer-herder, agricultural and, now, developed societies. These changes in the...