background: in india, child malnutrition is mostly the result of high levels of exposure to infection and inappropriate infant and young child feeding and caring practices and has its origins almost entirely during the first 2 to 3 years of life. this study aims in assessing the impact of breast feeding on child development of children at 3 years. methods: about 530 children at 3 years were ass...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether antenatal breast feeding education alone or postnatal lactation support alone improves rates of exclusive breast feeding compared with routine hospital care. DESIGN Randomised controlled trial. SETTING A tertiary hospital in Singapore. PARTICIPANTS 450 women with uncomplicated pregnancies. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Primary outcomes were rates of exclusive br...

Objectives: Although breast milk is considered the best nutritional option for neonates, use of traditional supplements such as sugar water, camel thorn, and flix weed in the first week of life of infants is quite common in Iran and many other countries. The aim of this study was to evaluate whether consuming such supplements has any impact on infant’s breastfeeding behavior. Materials and Meth...

The present study was conducted among 150 healthy babies< 2 years of age attending the Paediatric OPD/ underfive clinic in JIPMER, a tertiary care hospital, with the aim of studying the feeding practice of babies and correlating it with their growth and development. Information about the feeding pattern and development were obtained from the mother/ the guardian using a graded questionnaire. Th...

Vitamin D deficiency is a common health problem in infancy. Breast-fed infants are at a higher risk of rickets than formula-fed infants. We observed fluctuations in vitamin D levels in infancy (phase I, 2009-2010) and considered the benefits of vitamin D supplementation specifically in exclusively breast-fed infants in Japan (phase II, 2015). Infants born at our hospital were enrolled in this s...

Exclusive breast-feeding is recommended up to 6 months of age with all its beneficial effects on child survival. Several studies have concluded that adequate intake of vitamin D cannot be met with human milk as the sole source of vitamin D. As breast-feeding rates increase, the incidence of vitamin D deficiency rickets is also expected to rise. One of the potential sources of vitamin D synthesi...

AIMS To assess the associations of type and duration of infant feeding with components of the metabolic syndrome in children aged 9 and 15. METHODS A total of 2192 randomly selected schoolchildren aged 9 and 15 years from Estonia (n = 1174) and Denmark (n = 1018) were studied. Insulin resistance (homoeostasis model assessment), triglyceride levels, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, and sy...

introduction: it is generally accepted that breast feeding has a beneficial effect on the health of infants and children. the evidence that breast feeding protects against obesity is inconclusive also the influence of breast feeding on blood pressure in later life is uncertain. the major aim of this study was to assess the association between method of infant breast feeding and components of th...

Results: At birth and at six months the mean serum Zinc level in the study and control group was 0.87±0.398, 1.03±0.567, 0.88±0.248, 0.83±0.355mg/L respectively. The SZnR 6/B is significantly higher in study group as compared to controls (1.153 ± 0.55 Vs 0.913±0.438, p<0.01) suggesting better maintained serum zinc levels in zinc supplemented infants. Zinc supplemented exclusively breast fed inf...