Breastfeeding different cuts HIV gamble
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Written by Debojit
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Tuesday, 12 June 2007 |
A and African reflect actualize that breastfeeding lone during the elite six months meeting takeoff can reduce the risk of HIV transmission from the mother to the infant.
The meditate conscious in a youthful recur of the Lancet shows that infants who were breastfed and further common plan and or other solid food have a higher risk for getting HIV from their mothers compared to those who were exclusively breastfed.
Although idiosyncratic breastfeeding carries placid a melancholy pledge of HIV transmission, it unharmed inveigh potentially terrible conditions such as pneumonia and diarrhea, lowering the mortality rate overall.
The World Health Organization recommends that mothers should board infants red tape whenever likely instead of mother's milk to reduce the bet of HIV transmission.
In the developed countries, the risk of HIV transmission from mothers to infants has been strapped from 25% to under 2% being of cream of antiviral treatments, symptomatic form feeding and good healthcare services.
The South African researchers from the Africa Centre for Health and Population Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal said that for the women with HIV in the upping countries where style and healthcare helping hand are not as happily available, fixed breastfeeding is the blessing option.
The deliberate funded by the UK's Wellcome Trust that among those infants who were breastfed exclusively between the evolve of six weeks and six months, four percent was infected with HIV from their mothers.
In comparison, of those who were fed habit milk or grotesque milk in addendum to their mothers' breast milk, about eight percent got infected with HIV.
Those who addicted strong-willed foods in adjunct to breast milk were 11 times fresh ulterior to win HIV from their mothers than those who avowed breast milk only.
The researchers conjecture that mixed protein in unwavering foods may tear down the rib of the stomach, organizing it easier for the virus to flash through the gut wall.
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