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Supplemented Breast Feeding
Publication year - 1951
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1951.tb05341.x
Subject(s) - medicine , breast milk , bifidobacterium bifidum , breast feeding , feces , zoology , food science , physiology , pediatrics , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , biochemistry , lactobacillus , fermentation , bifidobacterium
Summary An investigation of 43 breast‐fed infants who received quantities of breast milk varying between 50 and 800 g per day, plus different kinds of supplementary foods, yielded the following results: (1) A bifidum count consistent in principle with that found in breast‐fed infants may occur as long as the quantity of breast milk ingested exceeds approximately 200 g per day. (2) The pH of the faeces will usually be higher when the amount of breast milk decreases to less than 400 g per day. (3) The nature of the supplementary food does not appear to be of fundamental importance for the maintenance of a high number of Bact. bifidum .