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To Breast-Feed or Not to Breast-Feed?

Postgraduate Medicine, 1972
For the infant's well-being, breastfeeding is preferable to formula-feeding, but for the mother, breast-feeding has both advantages and disadvantages.
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On Feeding at the Breasts

Pediatrics, 1961
To the Editor: A decreasing percentage of new mothers and their newborn babies are experiencing the pleasurable opportunity of breast feeding. It seems apparent that this once-universal method of furnishing our young with their nutritional and sucking needs will become less common as time moves on. It is my conviction that the mother who
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Antithyroid dugs: To breast-feed or not to breast-feed

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1987
Historically, women taking antithyroid drugs generally have not been permitted to breast-feed. However, recent studies suggest that infants exposed to the small amounts of antithyroid drugs in breast milk experience no change in thyroid function. Propylthiouracil is the drug of choice in this situation, since it does not cross membranes readily, and ...
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Breast Feeding in Kelantan

Journal of Tropical Pediatrics, 1977
The incidence of breastfeeding is investigated in relation to duration of breastfeeding without supplementation and the age when solids were first introduced in the infants diet. The study also evaluates the awareness of the mothers of the benefits of breast milk. 461 mothers were interviewed in May 1976 by 3 doctors including the author.
Hasbullah Bin Haji Hussein   +1 more
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Medications and breast-feeding: Current concepts.

Journal of the American Pharmacists Association, 2012
OBJECTIVES To describe the various factors that come into play when a breast-feeding mother is taking medications, including use of prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, recreational drugs, galactogogues, and herbal remedies and to provide a ...
F. Nice, A. C. Luo
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Association of breast-feeding and feeding on demand with child weight status up to 4 years.

International Journal of Pediatric Obesity, 2011
OBJECTIVES The mechanisms underlying the protective effect of breast-feeding on the development of childhood overweight are unclear. This study examines the association of breast-feeding with weight gain in the first year, and body mass index (BMI) and ...
Jessica S. Gubbels   +4 more
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Verapamil and breast-feeding

European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 1986
Concentrations of verapamil and norverapamil were measured in the plasma and breast milk of a woman receiving 120 mg verapamil three times daily. Whilst the concentrations of verapamil in breast milk averaged about 64% of those in maternal plasma no drug could be detected in the plasma of the infant. It is concluded that maternal therapy with verapamil
R. Bhamra   +3 more
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Systematic review and meta-analysis investigating breast feeding and childhood wheezing illness.

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology, 2011
There is conflicting evidence concerning the relationship between breast feeding and wheezing illness. The objective of this study was to investigate whether there is any association between breast feeding and wheezing in children aged over 5 years and ...
Bronwyn K Brew   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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