Bottle-feeding can put kids' health at risk.Byline: ANI London, July 14 (ANI): New mums who bottle-feed their children might be putting their kids' health at risk due to mistakes in the preparation of the formula, say researchers. The errors include too high concentration of formula, changing brands, and the timing of feeds. This could lead to "overfeeding overfeeding, n feeding behavior in which infants and children are given more food than they can optimally digest. Not as common in breastfed infants, because a mother's milk production is limited naturally. ", which can cause obesity. On the other hand, babies who do not receive enough formula milk are likely to be undernourished. A review of studies involving more than 13,000 mothers found that a lack of information, and support for bottle-feeding mothers, was contributing to the problem, reports the Daily Express. The researchers found that some new mothers thought that they were a failure for bottle-feeding or were angry about not being able to breastfeed breast·feed or breast-feed v. breast-fed , breast-feed·ing, breast-feeds v.tr. To feed (a baby) mother's milk from the breast; suckle. v.intr. To breastfeed a baby. , while others thought midwives were more interested in helping breastfeeding mothers than those who used bottles. "The WHO/Unicef code on infant feeding discourages active dissemination dissemination Medtalk The spread of a pernicious process–eg, CA, acute infection Oncology Metastasis, see there of information on bottle-feeding during the antenatal an·te·na·tal adj. See prenatal. antenatal before parturition. Called also prenatal, antepartal. period, but permits postnatal postnatal /post·na·tal/ (-na´t'l) occurring after birth, with reference to the newborn. post·na·tal adj. Of or occurring after birth, especially in the period immediately after birth. advice and instruction on bottle-feeding only after the mother has decided to bottle-feed," the study said. Therefore, mothers who bottle-fed their kids did not receive enough information. (ANI) Copyright 2009 Asian News International The Asian News International (ANI) agency provides multimedia news to China and 50 bureaus in India. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South Asia-wide news agency. (ANI) - All Rights Reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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