Infants with diarrhoea should be breastfed as often and for as long as they want.
«We are supplying milk for the UNICEF coordinated breastfeeding missions, for orphaned infants,
infants with diarrhoea / dehydration in a few hospitals, for mothers who drip the milk on their breasts during relactation procedures and mothers of twins who need a boost of milk,» Silvestre said.
Continued breastfeeding is the best «treatment» for
an infant with diarrhoea, as a reader points out in a letter on =» #page7» > page 7.
Not exact matches
This causes many
infants to become infected
with bacterial diseases, the most feared of which is
diarrhoea, which yearly leads to dehydration and death for thousands of
infants.
Rapid dehydration The physiological characteristics of the newborn baby or «neonate» result in more rapid dehydration during
diarrhoea than occurs
with older
infants.
Morbidity No differences between the exclusive breastfeeding group and the mixed breastfeeding group were found for the percentage of days
with fever, cough, nasal congestion or discharge, hoarseness, or
diarrhoea from four to six months (2 trials / 260
infants), nor for fever, nasal congestion, or
diarrhoea from six to 12 months (2 trials / 258
infants).
Infants often continue
with breastmilk while refusing other foods, especially non-human milk, during
diarrhoea.
In the unadjusted analysis, diarrhoeal disease was significantly associated
with lower social class, living in rented council accommodation, not having access to a food mixer, having contact
with a person
with diarrhoea / vomiting within or outside the household, formula feeding, and, in
infants not being breast fed, not using chemicals / steam to sterilise bottles (table 1).
Among the tins of cooking oil, stacks of bedding and sacks of wheat flour are several cartons containing
infant milk formula, but Ahmed appears confused when told that formula, when mixed
with unsafe water, can cause
diarrhoea in
infants.
For
infants with acute
diarrhoea with temporary lactose intolerance, breastfeeding should be continued.
It is important for health workers to work
with local communities to identify and encourage safe weaning practices and to improve
infants» nutrition to increase their resistance to infections such as
diarrhoea.
Prevalence of
infants with reported
diarrhoea between 10 - 14 weeks postpartum and 18 - 24 weeks postpartum
Six months after the bombing ended,
with the Red Cross and other aid bodies trying to repair water installations, Nembrini says that the number of cases of waterborne diseases such as typhoid, hepatitis and
diarrhoea had tripled, while
infant mortality had at least doubled.
Compared
with infants who were breast - fed
with no milk supplements, and after adjusting for confounding variables, those completely weaned had 14.2 and 3.6 times the risk of death from
diarrhoea and respiratory infections, respectively.