Probiotic May Block HIV from Breast Milk
Tue 25 May, 2004 21:51
By Karla Gale
NEW YORK (Reuters Health)
"Lactobacillus, a benign gut microbe that helps prevent more serious infections such as diarrhea in children, could become a weapon in the war on AIDS. Colonizing an infant's digestive tract with the so-called 'probiotic' may protect them from being infected with HIV present in breast milk, according to a report at the American Society for Microbiology general meeting in New Orleans. With the success of treating HIV-infected mothers before delivery to prevent transmission of the virus to the baby, breast-feeding is now the major route by which infants do become infected in Africa..."
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
Monday, May 24, 2004
Ivanhoe's Medical Breakthroughs - Preemies Need More Breast Milk
Reported May 24, 2004
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Premature infants born in multiple births aren;t getting their fair share of breast milk, say researchers publishing in the May/June issue of Ambulatory Pediatrics. That's important because these babies are often at the greatest risk for medical problems and need to have the optimal nutrition that only breast milk can provide.Researchers compared the breastfeeding behaviors of mothers who had full-term multiple births, full-term singleton births, pre-term singleton births, and pre-term multiple births. They were encouraged when they found full-term multiples -- twins or triplets -- were just about as likely to receive breast milk as full or pre-term singleton births...."
Reported May 24, 2004
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Premature infants born in multiple births aren;t getting their fair share of breast milk, say researchers publishing in the May/June issue of Ambulatory Pediatrics. That's important because these babies are often at the greatest risk for medical problems and need to have the optimal nutrition that only breast milk can provide.Researchers compared the breastfeeding behaviors of mothers who had full-term multiple births, full-term singleton births, pre-term singleton births, and pre-term multiple births. They were encouraged when they found full-term multiples -- twins or triplets -- were just about as likely to receive breast milk as full or pre-term singleton births...."
Friday, May 21, 2004
Control on breast milk substitutes urged
China Daily
2004-05-21 06:32
"An allout war against fake powdered milk has been launched across China following the deaths of 12 babies from malnutrition in Fuyang, in East China's Anhui Province. Investigations have revealed the infants, aged between four and six months, died after being fed milk powder with little, if any, nutritional value. As a result of consuming these products, More than 100 other infants in Fuyang are suffering from 'big head disease,' so-called because their heads grew abnormally large, while their torsos, arms and legs were reduced to skin and bone...."
China Daily
2004-05-21 06:32
"An allout war against fake powdered milk has been launched across China following the deaths of 12 babies from malnutrition in Fuyang, in East China's Anhui Province. Investigations have revealed the infants, aged between four and six months, died after being fed milk powder with little, if any, nutritional value. As a result of consuming these products, More than 100 other infants in Fuyang are suffering from 'big head disease,' so-called because their heads grew abnormally large, while their torsos, arms and legs were reduced to skin and bone...."
No nipples, please we're British
Breastfeeding film censored
ELEANOR COWIE
May 21 2004
"IT lasts only five seconds, and the offending item is hardly shocking in a world where films now consist almost entirely of sex scenes. But a brief promotional film encouraging people to vote in the European elections has been censored in Britain to spare viewers from a glimpse of bare nipple.The advert begins screening in 2200 cinemas around the country next Friday, but the opening shot of a breast-feeding baby has been deemed too shocking for British eyes...."
Breastfeeding film censored
ELEANOR COWIE
May 21 2004
"IT lasts only five seconds, and the offending item is hardly shocking in a world where films now consist almost entirely of sex scenes. But a brief promotional film encouraging people to vote in the European elections has been censored in Britain to spare viewers from a glimpse of bare nipple.The advert begins screening in 2200 cinemas around the country next Friday, but the opening shot of a breast-feeding baby has been deemed too shocking for British eyes...."
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