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Breast or Cow's Milk as Infant Food Discussion on the Methods of Comparison
Author(s) -
SYDOW GERT v.,
FAXÉN NILS
Publication year - 1954
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.1651-2227.1954.tb04038.x
Subject(s) - medicine , breast milk , infant nutrition , breast feeding , infant formula , breastfeeding , pediatrics , environmental health , population , research methodology , biology , biochemistry
Summary In order to find out whether breast milk feeding is superior to artificial foods for infants, one should first make sure that the groups for comparison are identical in all respects other than feeding: e.g., that one group does not get more careful nursing or better social surroundings than the other, that the supply of food is equally free or rationed in both groups, and that the risks of infection are the same. Such a comparison may best be carried out in a Children's Home where every other child is given collected breast milk, and the others artificial food, and where all the children are nursed together under equal risks of infection. As an example, a very limited investigation of this kind is described, where the number of days with a rise in temperature was found to be considerably higher in the cow's milk group than in the breast‐milk group.