Breastfeeding and prevention of the most serious diseases

Breastfeeding and prevention of the most serious diseases

Children who benefit from breastfeeding only, even if the mother was seropositive for master or AIDS, are less exposed to infection of living with breast «double» of mother's milk and milk factory. Shows that the latter does not maintain the gastric mucosa of the child, which forms a natural barrier in the face of the AIDS virus.

He continued Professor (Hoosen Kovadia) and colleagues from the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies in South Africa, 1372 children born of HIV-positive children. Were breastfed 9 children among 10 others naturally and got a double feeding. Appeared higher level of AIDS infection twice the children of the latter group. In case of blending solid foods with mother's milk - especially porridge - doubling the number of casualties in one ten times.

Another benefit of breastfeeding, as they remain the mother better protected from mammary abscess and other complications that facilitates the transmission of the disease. It is an important discovery, since the 300,000 children are injured each year, specifically in Africa. According to (Hoosen Kovadia), These results demonstrate that breastfeeding is the President solution to combat infant mortality. It concluded less variation of the recommendations of the World Health Organization in this regard.