there is no doubt that breast-feeding is the best and safest way of feeding infants. physiological weight loss occurs in the first two or three days of life, and the achievement of birth weight is expected towards the end of the first week. hypernatremic dehydration may occur in exclusively breast-fed infants if milk supply is low during these first few days. it is not because of the high sodiu...

BACKGROUND Neonatal jaundice, especially breast feeding jaundice is the most common cause of neonatal re-admission within the first month of life. Good maternal support and closed follow-up of newborn infants can promote successful breast feeding without causing any complications. OBJECTIVE To determine the rate of significant weight loss and hypernatremia in infants with breast feeding jaund...

BACKGROUND The preoperative prediction of therapeutic breast reduction weights, to achieve both relief of breast weight symptoms and yet achieve excellent breast shape, remains a challenge. OBJECTIVES To design a simple clinical method to preoperatively predict and quantify therapeutic breast reduction weights. METHODS In 31 women who underwent therapeutic bilateral reduction mammaplasty, t...

This study was conducted to examine weight change of exclusively breast-fed infants during the first week and through the first 24 days of life, and to evaluate the effect of breast-feeding factors and maternal characteristics on early weight change in the infants. The weights of 21 infants were recorded on day 1 (day of birth), and on days 3, 7, 10, 17, and 24, and the data analysed to evaluat...

PURPOSE Breast volume assessment is one of the most important steps during implant-based breast reconstruction because it is critical in selecting implant size. According to previous studies, there is a close relationship between the mastectomy specimen weight and resected breast volume. The aim of this study was to evaluate long-term patient satisfaction with implant-based breast reconstructio...

BACKGROUND This study prospectively examines weight gain in breast cancer survivors compared with cancer-free women from a familial risk cohort. METHODS Absolute and percent weight change over 4 years was compared among 303 breast cancer survivors and 307 cancer-free women matched on age and menopausal status, from the same familial risk cohort. Linear and logistic regression was used to esti...

The association between weight, BMI and breast cancer was analyzed on 94,805 women of the E3N cohort according to their menopausal status. Seven hundred eighty-six incident invasive premenopausal breast cancers and 1,522 incident invasive postmenopausal breast cancers occurred during a mean follow-up of 9.7 years. Weight and BMI were updated every 24 months and considered as time-dependent vari...

SIR We read with interest the study by Rutishauser and Carlini which showed that, after adjusting for the effects of confounding factors, body mass index (BMI) had a significant independent effect on the rate of cessation of breast feeding. The authors further suggest that concern regarding the lack of weight loss while breast feeding may be the basis for the association found between BMI and t...