Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Mother's milk helps premature babies to survive


According to a new study, the most tiniest premature infants who received breast milk from their mothers at the hospital had achieved significant results in tests of mental development later in life compared with those who drank milk industry.
This research shows the first of its kind, the benefits of breast milk for premature infants who were born with weights less than 2 pounds, 3 ounces. Thanks to medical advances, many hospitals were able to preserve the lives of these babies, especially those who were born earlier than three months shall mislead them.

Said study co-author Dr. Betty Brown, Ms Fuhr from the Faculty of Medicine, "For these children, the development of the brain which usually occurs in the uterus during the third trimester of pregnancy, is in intensive care for preterm infants in the hospital."
She added, "working components of breast milk, which contains in particular the fatty acids, to assist in the development of the brain properly."
Ms Fuhr says, "Feeding the premature infants born early, unnecessary for the state special education expenses later."
The study appeared in the number of the month of July of the journal Pediatrics. A separate study also reported that breast-feed the child for more than three months at least helped the children to non-injury situation Allaradi urinate in bed later in childhood.
The researchers tracked 1,035 children with very low weights in the 15 hospitals. And received about three-quarters of these babies some breast milk in the hospital. While only a quarter were fed artificial milk.
The researchers found that even when they picked up the educational level and income of the people into account, children who have been fed on breast milk score higher on tests of mental development, aged 18 months compared with children who drank milk industry.
The grades go up the longer the child was the mother's milk. Mother's milk does not have an effect on cases of cerebral palsy, blindness, or hearing problems.
It recommends the American Academy of Pediatrics feeding premature infants, and low-weight, mother's milk. The pump can be used to get milk from the chest in the case of some of these children are not able to suction after, and based most of the mixtures of industrial milk cow's milk, according to Dr. Sheila Giraghty, responsible for breast-feeding program at Children's Hospital in Cincinnati. She added, "We are the only organisms that feed on other animals milk." However, "We desperately need to mother's milk in early childhood." 


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