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Breastfeeding Practice in Zhejiang Province, PR China, in the Context of Melamine-contaminated Formula Milk

A prospective cohort study of 1,520 mothers from Zhejiang province of China was undertaken to determine the duration of breastfeeding and associated factors during the first six months postpartum. Most (95.3%) mothers had introduced complementary foods by six months, making them at risk from contami...

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Autores principales: Qiu, Liqian, Binns, Colin W., Zhao, Yun, Lee, Andy H., Xie, Xing
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20411683
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author Qiu, Liqian
Binns, Colin W.
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description A prospective cohort study of 1,520 mothers from Zhejiang province of China was undertaken to determine the duration of breastfeeding and associated factors during the first six months postpartum. Most (95.3%) mothers had introduced complementary foods by six months, making them at risk from contaminated infant formula. The mean duration of ‘any breastfeeding’ was greater than 180 days but only 48 days for ‘exclusive breastfeeding’. Factors relating to cessation of any breastfeeding were maternal age, timing of the breastfeeding decision, admission of the infant to a special-care nursery, return of the mother to work, the early introduction of water and/or other complementary foods, and their location of residence. The introduction of infant formula before three months was positively associated with the late decision to breastfeed, births in city, and infants being given a prelacteal feed. To combat the melamine disaster, strategies to improve the duration of breastfeeding must be developed taking these factors into account.
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spelling pubmed-29808822010-12-06 Breastfeeding Practice in Zhejiang Province, PR China, in the Context of Melamine-contaminated Formula Milk Qiu, Liqian Binns, Colin W. Zhao, Yun Lee, Andy H. Xie, Xing J Health Popul Nutr Original Papers A prospective cohort study of 1,520 mothers from Zhejiang province of China was undertaken to determine the duration of breastfeeding and associated factors during the first six months postpartum. Most (95.3%) mothers had introduced complementary foods by six months, making them at risk from contaminated infant formula. The mean duration of ‘any breastfeeding’ was greater than 180 days but only 48 days for ‘exclusive breastfeeding’. Factors relating to cessation of any breastfeeding were maternal age, timing of the breastfeeding decision, admission of the infant to a special-care nursery, return of the mother to work, the early introduction of water and/or other complementary foods, and their location of residence. The introduction of infant formula before three months was positively associated with the late decision to breastfeed, births in city, and infants being given a prelacteal feed. To combat the melamine disaster, strategies to improve the duration of breastfeeding must be developed taking these factors into account. International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh 2010-04 /pmc/articles/PMC2980882/ /pubmed/20411683 Text en © INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DIARRHOEAL DISEASE RESEARCH, BANGLADESH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Qiu, Liqian
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Lee, Andy H.
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Breastfeeding Practice in Zhejiang Province, PR China, in the Context of Melamine-contaminated Formula Milk
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title_fullStr Breastfeeding Practice in Zhejiang Province, PR China, in the Context of Melamine-contaminated Formula Milk
title_full_unstemmed Breastfeeding Practice in Zhejiang Province, PR China, in the Context of Melamine-contaminated Formula Milk
title_short Breastfeeding Practice in Zhejiang Province, PR China, in the Context of Melamine-contaminated Formula Milk
title_sort breastfeeding practice in zhejiang province, pr china, in the context of melamine-contaminated formula milk
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980882/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20411683
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