December 2015

Breast feeding initiation time and its impact on diarrheal disease and pneumonia in West Africa

Although breast feeding (BF) is protective against infectious disease amongst children, its timing initiation effect after birth is unknown, whether immediate (<1 h), hours (>1 to <24 h) or days (>24 h). The authors examined relationships between early initiation time of BF and the prevalence of pneumonia and diarrhea in infants and under 5 children adjusting for gender, previous sibling death, maternal...

Author(s): Nkemjika Stanley O. and Demissie Kitaw