Ellestad-Sayed J, Coodin F J, Dilling L A, Haworth J C
Can Med Assoc J. 1979 Feb 3;120(3):295-8.
A retrospective study was undertaken at two isolated Manitoba Indian communities to determine whether the type of infant feeding was related to infection during the first year of life. Of 158 infants 28 were fully breast-fed, 58 initially breast-fed and then changed to bottle-feeding and 72 fully bottle-fed. Fully bottle-fed infants were hospitalized with infectious diseases 10 times more often and spent 10 times more days in hospital during the first year of life than fully breast-fed infants. Diagnoses were mainly lower respiratory tract infection and gastroenteritis. Gastroenteritis occurred in only one breast-fed infant. Breast-feeding was strongly protective against severe infection requiring hospital admission and also against minor infection. The protective effect, which lasted even after breast-feeding was discontinued, was independent of family size, overcrowding in the home, family income and education of the parents. Measures to achieve breast-feeding for virtually all infants, particularly in northern communities, should be given high priority.
在曼尼托巴省两个与世隔绝的印第安社区进行了一项回顾性研究，以确定婴儿喂养方式是否与出生后第一年的感染有关。158名婴儿中，28名完全母乳喂养，58名最初母乳喂养，之后改为奶瓶喂养，72名完全奶瓶喂养。完全奶瓶喂养的婴儿患传染病住院的频率比完全母乳喂养的婴儿高10倍，在出生后第一年住院的天数也多10倍。诊断主要为下呼吸道感染和肠胃炎。肠胃炎仅发生在一名母乳喂养的婴儿身上。母乳喂养对需要住院治疗的严重感染以及轻度感染都有很强的保护作用。即使停止母乳喂养后，这种保护作用仍然存在，且与家庭规模、家庭拥挤程度、家庭收入和父母教育程度无关。应高度重视采取措施让几乎所有婴儿实现母乳喂养，尤其是在北部社区。
