Sentences with phrase «predominant breast»

By 6 months 61 % of mothers had stopped predominant breast feeding, and by 8 months 58 % had stopped breast feeding altogether.

Multivariate relation between wheezing lower respiratory illness at 1 year of age (hospital, doctor, or clinic visits or hospital admission) and duration of predominant breast feeding

In adjusted analysis a shorter duration of predominant breast feeding (less than two months) was a risk factor for four or more hospital, doctor, or clinic visits because of upper respiratory tract infections (OR 1.43, 95 % 1.02 to 2.01, p = 0.041), as was partial breast feeding for less than six months (OR 1.46, 95 % CI 1.07 to 2.00, p = 0.018).

Main exposure measures were the duration of predominant breast feeding (defined as the age other milk was introduced) and partial (any) breast feeding (defined as the age breast feeding was stopped).

Although additional studies are required to confirm these findings and to understand the mechanisms of breast milk protection, public health interventions to promote predominant breast feeding for at least six months and any breast feeding up to one year may reduce the prevalence and subsequent morbidity of respiratory illness and infection in infancy.

Results: Hospital, doctor, or clinic visits for four or more upper respiratory tract infections were significantly greater if predominant breast feeding was stopped before 2 months or partial breast feeding was stopped before 6 months.

Hospital admissions were associated with less than two months of predominant breast feeding in crude but not adjusted analysis.

Predominant breast feeding for less than six months was associated with an increased risk for two or more hospital, doctor, or clinic visits and hospital admission for wheezing lower respiratory illness.

Conclusions: Predominant breast feeding for at least six months and partial breast feeding for up to one year may reduce the prevalence and subsequent morbidity of respiratory illness and infection in infancy.

Almost half of the cohort (48 %) ceased predominant breast feeding before 4 months or any breast feeding before 6 months.

Table 2 shows crude and adjusted associations between predominant breast feeding and partial breast feeding at two dichotomisation cut points, with four or more hospital, doctor, or clinic visits or hospital admissions for upper respiratory infections.

Our findings support the hypothesis that predominant breast feeding protects against the occurrence of respiratory infection and illness and associated hospital admissions in the first year of life.

Predominant breast feeding — breast milk and water, sweetened water, and juices given without formula

Tolerogenic cytokines, like transforming growth factor - beta (TGF - β) and IL - 10, are involved in suppressing the inflammatory response and are the predominant breast milk cytokines.

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Colostrum contains high concentrations of secretory IgA, the predominant immunoglobulin passed through your breast milk, lactoferrin, which acts as an antibacterial to prevent infection in human infants, and leukocytes, protective white cells.

Rates of exclusive, predominant, partial, and no breast feeding were tracked at all these time points.

The consultation recommended exclusive breast feeding for six months, with introduction of complementary foods and continued breast feeding thereafter.19 Given this recommendation, it is important that the role of exclusive, predominant, or any breast feeding duration in the prevention of childhood illness and infection is properly quantified and acknowledged.

The non-wheezing lower respiratory illnesses did not reach significance in relation to predominant or any breast feeding duration in any crude or multivariate model.

Firstly, as the duration of predominant (or full) breast feeding defined by the age that any other milk (usually formula milk) was introduced (in months), and secondly as partial (or any) breast feeding defined by the age that breast feeding was stopped (in months).

We used the recommended definition for «predominant» breast feeding where breast milk plus water or water based fluids may have been given.

We aimed to document the association of duration of predominant feeding and duration of any breast feeding with respiratory illness and infection morbidity as measured by doctor, hospital, or clinic visits and hospital admissions in the first year of life.

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Since, unlike casein - rich cow's milk, it's the predominant protein in breast milk (3:1), it is more easily digested by humans.

The females lose out in the appearance department too, with gray the predominant color, whereas the male bird has dramatic coloring that includes a red beak, orange on its cheeks, stripes on the throat (hence the zebra moniker) over a black bar on the breast, with chestnut - colored flanks with white spots.