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Characteristics of Human Milk Antibodies and their Effect in Relation to the Epidemiology of Breastfeeding and Infections in a Developing Country

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Immunology of Milk and the Neonate

Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology ((AEMB,volume 310))

Abstract

Most of us would believe that it is only in modern times that not all infants are exclusively breast-fed. However, even in ancient India and Europe1 people were taught not to initiate breastfeeding at once, but to give other fluids and other materials, such as honey, that were likely to be contaminated. This is the custom still today in many traditional societies2,3. After breastfeeding has been started it is often incomplete (“partial breast-feeding”), but even then it may go on through the second year of life. There is information available that during previous centuries there was no breastfeeding at all in certain areas of Germany and Sweden. Infant mortality from diarrhea during the warm summer months in the early part of the 19th century was higher in such areas in northern Sweden than in adjacent regions where breastfeeding was the rule4. This presumably constitutes the first scientific evidence that breastfeeding can protect against infections.

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  1. Departments of Clinical Immunology, Pediatrics, and Anatomy (Biometric Unit), University of Göteborg, Sweden

    Lars Å. Hanson & Fehmida Jalil

  2. Department of Social and Preventive Pediatrics, King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan

    Lars Å. Hanson & Fehmida Jalil

  3. INCAP, Guatemala City, Guatemala

    Lars Å. Hanson & Fehmida Jalil

  4. INISA, San José, Costa Rica

    Lars Å. Hanson & Fehmida Jalil

  5. Department of Perinatal Pathology, Provincial Hospital, Postgraduate School of Pediatrics, University of Milan, Italy

    Lars Å. Hanson & Fehmida Jalil

  6. Department of Pediatrics at St. Görans’s Hospital, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

    Lars Å. Hanson & Fehmida Jalil

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Hanson, L.Å., Jalil, F. (1991). Characteristics of Human Milk Antibodies and their Effect in Relation to the Epidemiology of Breastfeeding and Infections in a Developing Country. In: Mestecky, J., Blair, C., Ogra, P.L. (eds) Immunology of Milk and the Neonate. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 310. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3838-7_1

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