lamotrigine is a safe anti-epileptic drug among pregnant and lactating women. some concerns exist regarding the safety of lamotrigine during breastfeeding and related neonatal complications. in this brief review, this matter was evaluated and discussed. in this review study, the medical literature available in search databases such as embase, scopus, pubmed, and medline and even also local medi...

in this paper breastfeeding was studied among 10240 urban and 10794 rural mothers, whose children were 18 to 23 months of age. the sample size for rural and urban areas was equal, butin each province the cluster sampling method was used proportional to the population of each district. the results ofthe study show that between 17% to 28% of urban mothers in the provinces have deprived their chil...

we conducted this study to compare fecal calprotectin between exclusively breastfed and formula or mixed fed infants aged one month and six months. sixty term infants were enrolled from the labor ward of valiasr hospital between oct 2011 and july 2015 and their fecal calprotectin was checked by the elisa method and hycult biotech kits. the enrolled infants had a birth weight of 2500-4000 g and ...

In this paper breastfeeding was studied among 10240 urban and 10794 rural mothers, whose children were 18 to 23 months of age. The sample size for rural and urban areas was equal, butin each province the cluster sampling method was used proportional to the population of each district. The results ofthe study show that between 17% to 28% of urban mothers in the provinces have deprived their...

BACKGROUND Breastfeeding is said to protect children from eczema (atopic dermatitis), but the available evidence is conflicting and subject to the influences of parental atopy and reverse causation (when mothers extended duration of breastfeeding because their children had eczema). METHODS In the prospective, population-based Leicester Respiratory Cohort study, we assessed duration of breastf...

BACKGROUND Adequate complementary feeding is recognized as an important predictor of health later in life. The objective of this study was to describe the feeding practices and nutrients' intake, and their association with breastfeeding at six months of age, in a cohort of infants enrolled at birth in the maternity hospital of Trieste, Italy. METHODS Out of 400 infants enrolled at birth, 268 ...

OBJECTIVE To describe the eating habits of breastfed and non-breastfed children through the analysis of food intake by children younger than one year of age in Feira de Santana in 2001. METHODS Cross-sectional study. The mothers of children younger than one year answered a questionnaire during the national vaccination day in 44 (71%) vaccination units selected by simple stratification. 2,319 ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of breastfeeding duration with psychosocial development at 6 years of age. METHODS We analyzed data from the 2005-2007 Infant Feeding Practices Study II and its 2012 Year 6 Follow-Up (N = 1442). Our breastfeeding duration variable combined overall and exclusive breastfeeding reported during infancy (never breastfed, breastfed <6 months, breastfed ≥6 months...