Ingesting breast milk reduces intestinal infection

• April 26, 2024

The breastmilk exclusive during the first six months, reduces the risk of suffering in babies malnutrition , diarrhea and respiratory infections , being the most effective way to provide a complete diet, affirmed Mauricio Hernández Ávila , undersecretary of Prevention and health promotion .

Hernández Ávila, indicated that the mother's milk It provides all the nutrients the baby needs for its healthy development, which improves health and survival in childhood. In this sense, the Pan American Health Organization (OPS), noted that the risk of dying in children under one year of age, fed with substitutes (partial or total replacement of breast milk), is three to five times higher than those who consume only breastmilk. On the other hand, women who breastfeed also have benefits by reducing the risk of hemorrhage postpartum and, in the long term, the possibility of suffering breast cancer and of ovary , as well as osteoporosis . Hernández Ávila announced that in order to promote the practice of exclusive breastfeeding, different dissemination activities are carried out as part of the World Week (celebrated from August 1 to 7), to advance to 100% of children receiving only breastmilk During the first six months and in a complementary way up to two years: "There is also an attempt to increase education for women in urban areas on the benefits and techniques of breastfeeding and prenatal control, health professionals are trained to promote this practice among users of health services. " In this regard, the undersecretary of Integration and Development of the Health Sector , Maki Esther Ortiz , affirmed that a project of creation of two banks of heterologous breast milk is developed, that is, of milk collection for the babies that need it and whose mothers can not provide it. The federal entities that will be the headquarters of these centers have not yet been defined, but they could be the National Institute of Perinatology or in any of the states of Zacatecas, Tabasco or San Luis Potosí.

Know your benefits

1. It's so good that the baby does not need anything else
2. It has all the vitamins , the fats and the proteins you need the baby in exact amount
3. The baby is healthier and has more defenses, prevents diarrhea
4. It is the vaccine for all infectious and contagious diseases
5. Create a very strong love bond that protects the baby both physically and mentally
6. Gives satisfaction to mom and baby

For all this and more, the breastmilk it generates an anti-infectious and anti-allergic protection, because in the composition of this, there are a series of substances that, by different mechanisms, will provide babies, a local defense against infectious agents (passive immunity provided by the mother), as long as the mechanisms that allow it to have its own active immunity mature.

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