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Infants’ Consumption of Cow Milk and Anemia

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Nutritional Anemia in Preschool Children

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Milk proteins are nutritionally significant for the children under 5 years of age. Proteins are the necessary building blocks of body tissues and provide amino acids essential for the growth and development of body of preschool children and their higher cognitive functions. Casein is important milk protein which is phosphoprotein in nature. It is precipitated in stomach and is the cause of delayed absorption of casein protein in children and infants. Conversely, whey protein’s digestibility and absorption are comparatively rapid from mucosa of GIT. Human breast milk is an important source of taurine and cystine amino acids. It is advisory for infants that who have allergy to cow milk should be provided human breast milk. It has been proved that feeding of infants with cow milk early in life might provoke immunological response in a few infants which in turn become a breeding ground for pathogenesis of iron deficiency and zinc depletion in infant’s body. Otherwise, exclusive breast-feeding of infants during initial 6 months and relative restriction from the start of cow milk are worthwhile practices to prevent cow milk protein allergy and associated clinical manifestations.

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Gupta, A. (2017). Infants’ Consumption of Cow Milk and Anemia. In: Nutritional Anemia in Preschool Children. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5178-4_13

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