Health And Diet When Breastfeeding

Mother in breastfeeding period should stay health and watchThe nutritional requirements for the baby will rely solely on mother’s breast milk, therefore the mother will need to maintain a healthy diet in order to supply the best nutrition for their baby. If the baby is large and grows fast, the fat stores gained by the mother during pregnancy can be depleted quickly after birth, meaning that she may have trouble in eating good enough to maintain and develop sufficient amounts of milk. However, this situation can’t be let happened, it surely can endanger baby’ development.
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General Knowledge About Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding is have-to-do activity for mother who has already a baby in her life. The reason is breast milk is the best food you can give to your baby.  Breast milk is a complete food source, containing all the nutrients needed by your baby – at least 400 of them to be exact, including hormones and disease fighting compounds that aren't found in formula milk.

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Breastfeeding and diarrhea

Breastfeeding is certainly provided many health benefits to baby. It is surely able to increase immunity to baby by improving the growth of good bacteria in human intestine. Besides, breastfeeding giving the best protection for baby from vary pathogens that may harmful and dangerous to baby’s health. Therefore, every parent should realize this particular thing in order to fulfill the baby’s right in getting breast milk from mother.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong by breastfeeding your baby. Event, it will give many advantages for your beloved one, such as preventing and treating diarrhea. There is a data showed that increasing the duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding could save an estimated 1.5 million infants live each year. In fact, up to 55 percent of infant deaths from diarrheal disease and acute respiratory infections may result from inappropriate feeding practices. However, breastfeeding provides infants with protection from many infections, including diarrheal diseases. Breastfeeding also stimulates the development of the infant’s own immune system, improves response to vaccinations, and provides many health-enhancing molecules, enzymes, proteins, and hormones (UNICEF, 1999).

As noted before, breastfeeding is able to increase the immunity since it contains prebiotics which are consumable by intestinal microflora. Consequently, it seriously affected baby’s health, nutritional status, and survival. So when breastfeeding stops, infants are exposed to food-borne germs and lose the protection of breast milk’s anti-infective properties. Therefore, it really important to understand the necessary of food hygiene and safety before and during the introduction of complementary foods, and ensure that infants receive sufficient nutrition to maintain their resistance to infections like those that cause diarrhea.

Dehydration is serious problem that is caused by diarrhea, and also it can occur quickly. Continued breastfeeding during diarrhea, as well as increased feeding after an episode, significantly reduces risk of dehydration, mitigates loss of weight, and promotes increased weight gain. Breastfeeding can also reduce the severity, duration, and negative nutritional consequences of diarrhea. Besides, breastfeeding infants, providing access to clean water, and improving hygiene practices are proven interventions for reducing diarrheal disease.

An integrated strategy that include those practices along with new tools like zinc treatment, improved oral rehydration solution (ORS), and rotavirus vaccines form a comprehensive package of tools to reduce childhood diarrheal disease, particularly in developing countries.

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Breastfeeding vs Atopic Dermatitis

Atopic dermatitis is a disease characterized by chronic inflammation of the skin which is atopic, hereditary, and non-contagious. The skin of a patient with atopic dermatitis reacts abnormally and easily to irritants, food, and environmental allergens and becomes red, flaky and very itchy. It also becomes vulnerable to surface infections caused by bacteria. The prevalence of atopic dermatitis in children has been rapidly rising throughout the world. Atopic dermatitis now affects 10-20% of children. Even, its prevalence in the United States alone has nearly tripled in the past thirty to forty years.

There is no certain cause of atopic dermatitis. However, it is an inherited disease that might be triggered by stress or fatigue and also allergens. On the other side, urbanization and westernization could be major factors responsible for this trend of atopic dermatitis in developing countries. Early life events, such as infection, introduction of foods other than maternal milk, etc, play a significant role in the clinical manifestation of atopic diseases in children.

There were several studies that have shown that breastfeeding offers a safe and effective mode of protection against atopic dermatitis during the first year of life, although some studies do not support this finding. Therefore, the issue of protective effect of breastfeeding in the development of atopic dermatitis remains controversial. However, there are many literatures that support the capability of breastfeeding in the prevention of allergic disease as one of the most cause of atopic dermatitis.

According to the research conducted by Anush Sahakyan, et. al. in Armenia, the developing of atopic dermatitis in children was affected by an introducing solids food to an infant before his/her 4th month of age (it will increase the risk of developing atopic dermatitis later in the childhood), antibiotic exposure in first year of life, and paternal and maternal history of atopy. Breastfeeding will increase the risk of atopic dermatitis only in children breastfed by atopic mothers, especially for 6 months or longer. However, in Armenia, according to the National Breastfeeding Program, mothers are encouraged to breastfeed their babies exclusively for months and to continue breastfeeding for 2 years with complementary feeding, except for mothers who possess hereditary disease not recommended to breastfeed their babies.

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