Background & Aims: Fasting following abdominal surgery is a traditional surgical practice based on fears of causing postoperative complications if oral intake begins before bowel function returns. However, supporting scientific evidence for this traditional practice is lacking and there are potential benefits from early postoperative of oral intake compared with parenteral nutrition. The aim of...

This experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of egg yolk and soybean oil as early feeding to broiler chicks on growth performance and intestinal morphology. A number of 525 chicks (Ross 308) were allocated to 7 treatments with 5 replicates and 15 birds in each replicate in a completely randomized design. Treatments were: control group (without early feeding), and feeding of 0.4 and ...

  Background and Aim: The importance of pre-feeding behaviors in successful breastfeeding and duration of exclusive breastfeeding necessitates the detection of factors influencing these behaviors. The aim of this study was to examine the effect of mother-infant skin-to-skin contact on pre-feeding behaviors of healthy full-term infants of primiparous women.   Materials and Method: This study was...

Background and Aim: Use of pacifiers by young infants has been recognized as one of the factors that interfere with the establishment of successful breast-feeding. Our aim was to find out if pacifier-use results in early termination of breast-feeding. Materials and Methods: A historical cohort study was done on mother-infant pairs visiting health centers for check-ups, routine vaccinations or ...

Introduction: Recent studies have shown that breast feeding reduces blood pressure (BP) in childhood, but association of breast feeding and BP in adulthood is not clear. The aim of this study was to evaluate association between breast feeding in infancy with BP in early adult life. Methods: This cross-sectional study was done through random sampling on 384 students aged 18-32 years in Azad un...