THE INFLUENCE OF WEANING FOOD ON THE GROWTH OF INFANTS WHILE BREAST-FEEDING
- VernacularTitle:哺乳期辅助食物对婴儿发育的影响
- Author:
Zhichien HE
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
weaning food breast-feeding growth of infants
- From:
Acta Nutrimenta Sinica
1956;0(03):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
A common phenomenon of a flatten growth curve of infants at the fourth month of brest-feeding that happened in developing countries as compared with the developed areas. This is one of the problems widely concerned about. Thirty one infants were observed for six months from the fourth month after birth, They were divided into three groups and different kinds of weaning foods were provided according to the habit of mother basically using rice paste with small quantity of meat, fish, and egg yolk added, Group 2 used rice paste fortified with 2 to 3% of lysine but still some meat added, Group 3 used whole milk poweder that mixed with rice paste. Home visit was held once or twice weekly, every other week. The health status, body weight and hemoglobin of the babies, as well as the quantity of food eaten were recorded.Under a continuous counselling, the hemoglobin level of babies became normal gradually and the weight gain of babies was higher as compared with the local average growth curve significantly but this growing tendancy was affected by the episodes of illness, especially the respiratory tract infection, diarrheoa (42.3% and 34.6% of total episodes respectively) and the fevers including common cold (23.1%).The rate of body weight of the infants was still lower as compared with those of the United Kingdom babies so a proper feeding guidance to the nursing mother of infants in the rural area was more urgent.
