Literature review for - Flourish Paediatrics

Telephone or face-to-face
interviews on consumption size
and proportion of food
(compared with a 4 d diary had
adequate relative validity)
occurred at 9 months of age.
Researchers used published
Estimated Average
Requirements to determine
adequacy of dietary intake.
Parents kept a home diary to
record infant feeding,
illnesses, medications which
was reviewed at each 6-
month visit. A questionnaire
was administered at each 6
month visit to assess infant
feeding.
Venous blood samples were
taken at birth, 6 months, 12
months, 18 months, 24
months and at continuing 6
month intervals. Insulin
antibodies and antibodies to
tyrosine phosphatase, IA2,
and GAD65 were measured
on serum samples. HLA
typing was performed on
umbilical venous blood.
questionnaire about their
child’s pattern of feeding
designed to gather
information of duration
and level of breastfeeding
and introduction of cow’s
milk.
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Results
At 9 months cow’s milk was
the main drink for 5% of
infants.
Zn intake was inadequate for
1% of 9 month old infants not
Analysis showed no
relationship between
introduction of cow’s milk
and the development of islet
autoimmunity.
55.8% of IDDM children
and 36.5% of the control
group had never fed by
fresh cow’s milk in the
first two years of life.
Infants were categorized
into two groups; breastfed
(plus complementary food,
with the exception of
cow’s milk) n= 23 vs. fed
whole cow’s milk (plus
complementary food)
n=64
Collected blood samples to
measure serum iron, Hb
concentration , total iron
binding capacity, serum
ferritin, transferrin
concentration . Weighed
infants
Used the Hexagon OBTI
kit to determine occult
fecal blood loss and the
Kato-Katz technique to
examine the parasites in
the stool.
There was no statistically
significant difference in
the presence of occult
intestinal blood in
breastfed infants (8/23
34.8%) compared to
379