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The impact of the 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires on infant feeding and contaminants in breast milk in women with asthma

BACKGROUND: The 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires (bushfires) resulted in prolonged extreme air pollution; little is known about the effects on breastfeeding women and their infants. This study aimed to examine the impact of prolonged landscape fires on infant feeding methods and assess the conce...

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Autores principales: Beyene, Tesfalidet, Zosky, Graeme R., Gibson, Peter G., McDonald, Vanessa M., Holliday, Elizabeth G., Horvat, Jay C., Vertigan, Anne E., Van Buskirk, Joe, Morgan, Geoffrey G., Jegasothy, Edward, Hanigan, Ivan, Murphy, Vanessa E., Jensen, Megan E.
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36823615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-023-00550-8
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author Beyene, Tesfalidet
Zosky, Graeme R.
Gibson, Peter G.
McDonald, Vanessa M.
Holliday, Elizabeth G.
Horvat, Jay C.
Vertigan, Anne E.
Van Buskirk, Joe
Morgan, Geoffrey G.
Jegasothy, Edward
Hanigan, Ivan
Murphy, Vanessa E.
Jensen, Megan E.
author_facet Beyene, Tesfalidet
Zosky, Graeme R.
Gibson, Peter G.
McDonald, Vanessa M.
Holliday, Elizabeth G.
Horvat, Jay C.
Vertigan, Anne E.
Van Buskirk, Joe
Morgan, Geoffrey G.
Jegasothy, Edward
Hanigan, Ivan
Murphy, Vanessa E.
Jensen, Megan E.
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description BACKGROUND: The 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires (bushfires) resulted in prolonged extreme air pollution; little is known about the effects on breastfeeding women and their infants. This study aimed to examine the impact of prolonged landscape fires on infant feeding methods and assess the concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and elements in breast milk samples. METHODS: From May – December 2020, women with asthma, who were feeding their infants during the fires, were recruited from an existing cohort. Data on infant feeding and maternal concern during the fires were retrospectively collected. Breast milk samples were collected from a sample of women during the fire period and compared with samples collected outside of the fire period for levels of 16 PAHs (gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry), and 20 elements (inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry). RESULTS: One-hundred-and-two women who were feeding infants completed the survey, and 77 provided 92 breast milk samples. Two women reported concern about the impact of fire events on their infant feeding method, while four reported the events influenced their decision. PAHs were detected in 34% of samples collected during, versus no samples collected outside, the fire period (cross-sectional analysis); specifically, fluoranthene (median concentration 0.015 mg/kg) and pyrene (median concentration 0.008 mg/kg) were detected. Women whose samples contained fluoranthene and pyrene were exposed to higher levels of fire-related fine particulate matter and more fire days, versus women whose samples had no detectable fluoranthene and pyrene. Calcium, potassium, magnesium, sodium, sulphur, and copper were detected in all samples. No samples contained chromium, lead, nickel, barium, or aluminium. No statistically significant difference was observed in the concentration of elements between samples collected during the fire period versus outside the fire period. CONCLUSIONS: Few women had concerns about the impact of fire events on infant feeding. Detection of fluoranthene and pyrene in breast milk samples was more likely during the 2019/2020 Australian fire period; however, levels detected were much lower than levels expected to be related to adverse health outcomes. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13006-023-00550-8.
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spelling pubmed-99474342023-02-23 The impact of the 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires on infant feeding and contaminants in breast milk in women with asthma Beyene, Tesfalidet Zosky, Graeme R. Gibson, Peter G. McDonald, Vanessa M. Holliday, Elizabeth G. Horvat, Jay C. Vertigan, Anne E. Van Buskirk, Joe Morgan, Geoffrey G. Jegasothy, Edward Hanigan, Ivan Murphy, Vanessa E. Jensen, Megan E. Int Breastfeed J Research BACKGROUND: The 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires (bushfires) resulted in prolonged extreme air pollution; little is known about the effects on breastfeeding women and their infants. This study aimed to examine the impact of prolonged landscape fires on infant feeding methods and assess the concentration of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and elements in breast milk samples. METHODS: From May – December 2020, women with asthma, who were feeding their infants during the fires, were recruited from an existing cohort. Data on infant feeding and maternal concern during the fires were retrospectively collected. Breast milk samples were collected from a sample of women during the fire period and compared with samples collected outside of the fire period for levels of 16 PAHs (gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry), and 20 elements (inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry). RESULTS: One-hundred-and-two women who were feeding infants completed the survey, and 77 provided 92 breast milk samples. Two women reported concern about the impact of fire events on their infant feeding method, while four reported the events influenced their decision. PAHs were detected in 34% of samples collected during, versus no samples collected outside, the fire period (cross-sectional analysis); specifically, fluoranthene (median concentration 0.015 mg/kg) and pyrene (median concentration 0.008 mg/kg) were detected. Women whose samples contained fluoranthene and pyrene were exposed to higher levels of fire-related fine particulate matter and more fire days, versus women whose samples had no detectable fluoranthene and pyrene. Calcium, potassium, magnesium, sodium, sulphur, and copper were detected in all samples. No samples contained chromium, lead, nickel, barium, or aluminium. No statistically significant difference was observed in the concentration of elements between samples collected during the fire period versus outside the fire period. CONCLUSIONS: Few women had concerns about the impact of fire events on infant feeding. Detection of fluoranthene and pyrene in breast milk samples was more likely during the 2019/2020 Australian fire period; however, levels detected were much lower than levels expected to be related to adverse health outcomes. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13006-023-00550-8. BioMed Central 2023-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9947434/ /pubmed/36823615 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-023-00550-8 Text en © Crown 2023 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) ) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
spellingShingle Research
Beyene, Tesfalidet
Zosky, Graeme R.
Gibson, Peter G.
McDonald, Vanessa M.
Holliday, Elizabeth G.
Horvat, Jay C.
Vertigan, Anne E.
Van Buskirk, Joe
Morgan, Geoffrey G.
Jegasothy, Edward
Hanigan, Ivan
Murphy, Vanessa E.
Jensen, Megan E.
The impact of the 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires on infant feeding and contaminants in breast milk in women with asthma
title The impact of the 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires on infant feeding and contaminants in breast milk in women with asthma
title_full The impact of the 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires on infant feeding and contaminants in breast milk in women with asthma
title_fullStr The impact of the 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires on infant feeding and contaminants in breast milk in women with asthma
title_full_unstemmed The impact of the 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires on infant feeding and contaminants in breast milk in women with asthma
title_short The impact of the 2019/2020 Australian landscape fires on infant feeding and contaminants in breast milk in women with asthma
title_sort impact of the 2019/2020 australian landscape fires on infant feeding and contaminants in breast milk in women with asthma
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9947434/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36823615
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-023-00550-8
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