VITAMIN-C NUTRITION DURING PROLONGED LACTATION - OPTIMAL IN INFANTS WHILE MARGINAL IN SOME MOTHERS
VITAMIN-C NUTRITION DURING PROLONGED LACTATION - OPTIMAL IN INFANTS WHILE MARGINAL IN SOME MOTHERS
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DOI:
10.1093/ajcn/40.5.1050
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
7.1
通讯作者:
SALMENPERA, L
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作者:
SALMENPERA, L
Prolonged breast-feeding is practiced by mothers in the hope of improving their infants'' health and preventing diseases. In this study of the nutritional adequacy of breast-feeding, 200 mothers with healthy, full term newborns were encouraged to breast-feed exclusively. At age 6 mo. 116 infants and at age 9 mo. 36 infants remained exclusively breast-fed. The control infants were weaned early and they received vitamin C through a supplemented milk formula and solid food. The exclusively breast-fed infants were able to maintain their plasma vitamin C concentration at the same or a higher concentration than the vitamin C-supplemented controls. Their plasma concentration was .apprx. 2-fold compared with the maternal concentration. It was relatively independent of maternal nutrition and of vitamin C concentration in milk. The mother''s intake of vitamin C influenced their plasma and milk concentrations. About 6% of the mothers had subnormal plasma concentrations without symptoms. The lowest concentrations occurred 2 mo. postpartum and during the spring. Thus, exclusively breast-fed infants are well protected against vitamin C deficiency, but marginal intake in lactating mothers is more common than assumed for a well-nourished population.