Breastfeeding analyzed in the Chamber of Deputies

• April 23, 2024

Feed a baby with milk formula in Mexico, is equivalent to feeding a family of 5 members with the basic basket, assured Romeo Rodríguez Suárez , head of the Coordinating Commission of the National Institutes and High Specialty of the Ministry of Health, in the forum on breastfeeding held on January 19, 2011 in the Chamber of Deputies.

Limiting consumption only to breast milk raises the IQ of children up to 6 points, avoids allergies up to 5 times more than those who have been fed other inputs.

In contrast, the prevalence of mortality is 3 times higher in those who took formula from the beginning and 10 times more possibility of malnutrition . The relative risk of having an infection diarrhea It is 14 times higher in babies with mixed feeding and 50 times more if they take only formula, explained Rodríguez Suárez.

The benefits reach breastfeeding mothers by reducing the risks of postpartum hemorrhage, breast cancer and ovaries.

Source: jornada.unam.mx

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