In the current, November 2007 issue of Pediatrics, there is a very important
article for the breastfeeding support community. The article is on the desk
of every pediatrician in the USA right now, and available to all the other
pediatricians in the world if they would like to get it. The article,
Infant-Feeding Methods and Childhood Sleep-Disordered Breathing by Hawley
Montgomery-Downs et al concludes that breastfeeding may provide long-term protectioin
against the incidence and/or severity of childhood sleep-disordered breathing - SDB.
I have been waiting for several years for an article like this to get
published. The article is on pages 1030 to 1035. Hopefully this article will
motivate others to do similar research.
Reference number 40 in the article is an article I authored that was
published in Breastfeeding Review, the Journal for the Australian Breastfeeding
Association. This article was a reprint of an article that I authored that was
originally published in German and sent to all the sleep doctors in Germany. It
has since been translated into English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese
and Greek. These translated articles are available in the International Room
on my website. The English version is available at
http://brianpalmerdds.com/pdf/Master_2_27_06.pdf I was invited to write this article by the German
publisher after she heard about my presentation at the international dental
sleep association conference in 2004.
I would like to ask the support of the breastfeeding support comunity to
inform all the other healthcare providers about these articles, especially
pediatricians, sleep doctors, dentists, hygienists and speech therapists.
I would also encourage you to tell them about two other supporting articles
that I authored that were published in Sleep Review. These articles are
available at http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/issues/articles/2003-03_04.asp and
http://www.sleepreviewmag.com/issues/articles/2003-05_06.asp Both are linked to
in the section on Articles on my website, as is the German article.
My hypothesis is that THE ACT OF BREASTFEEDING reduces the risk of developing
the malocclusions that put individuals at risk for developing obstructive
sleep apnea / sleep/disordered breathing. Why is this so important? If you
cannot breathe, you die! If you cannot breathe very well and the blood does
not get oxygenated, you are usually quite sick. If you breate well, you have a
better chance of being very healthy. There are varying degrees of health
between death and very healhty. If you do not sleep well you probably have
significant side effects that you may not even be aware of. Just try not
sleeping for a few nights and see how you feel. Your body is like a battery - it
needs to be recharged nightly. If it is not recharged fully, your body does
not function very well. Very simple and basic principles. This is a field
that all Lactation Consultants NEED to understand. The ACT OF BREASTFEEDING
is critical for TOTAL HEALTH.
To understand these principles a little better, I would encouragey you to
review an extended version of the presentation I gave at the international
meeting. That presentation is available at http://brianpalmerdds.com/adsm.htm
Please share this information with as many others as you can. Your health,
and the health of others, depends on it.
I believe the consequences of obstructive sleep apnea - sleep disordered
breathing will eventually bankrupt the healthcare system in the USA and other
coutries that do not support or promote breastfeeding enough. All treatment
options for OSA / SDB have varying degrees of consequences. The best treatment
is prevention. The best form of prevention is breastfeeding.
For Better Health!
Brian Palmer, DDS
Kansas City, USA
Website: www.brianpalmerdds.com
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