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Nutrient deficiency in the breast-fed infant

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Recent Developments in Infant Nutrition

Part of the book series: Tenth Nutricia Symposium ((NUSY,volume 9))

Abstract

Nutritional pathology in breast-fed infants may be related to all or to particular nutrients, and it may be a problem for individual mothers and their babies, or potentially a problem for the whole population. A possible classification of low nutrient intake in breast-fed children is shown in Table 1. This review is concerned mainly with the ‘all mothers, particular nutrients’ section but the other two are considered briefly. It is not a systematic review, but attempts to indicate points of practical management of the mother-children dyad, and to raise some questions for the infant food industry. I have also aimed to be more speculative, even contentious, than in a systematic review.

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Wharton, B. (1996). Nutrient deficiency in the breast-fed infant. In: Bindels, J.G., Goedhart, A.C., Visser, H.K.A. (eds) Recent Developments in Infant Nutrition. Tenth Nutricia Symposium, vol 9. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1790-3_19

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