I believe there was discussion on this list after the Tsunami; in any case, 
infant feeding in emergencies is a topic of interest.  Magda Sachs 


Indian Pediatr. 2006 Aug 7;43(8):724-727. Links
Feeding of Infants and Young Children in Tsunami Affected Villages in 
Pondicherry.Adhisivam B, S S, B SM, S DA, A NK.
Departments of Pediatrics and Preventive and Social Medicine, Jawaharlal 
Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research (JIPMER) , 
Pondicherry 605 006, India. Correspondence to: Dr. Adhisivam B, Senior 
Resident, Department of Pediatrics, JIPMER, Pondicherry 605 006, India. 
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The study was conducted to identify the problems related to feeding of 
children post tsunami in four villages in Pondicherry. Data were collected 
from 100 randomly chosen families who had an Infant or a Young child below 3 
years of age during Tsunami. Informants were the mothers. In the population 
studied, 30% mothers did not exclusively breast feed for 6 months; 58% 
bottle fed their children and 51%fed their infants with commercial formula. 
The occurrence of diarrhea was three times higher among children who were 
fed with free Breast milk substitutes (BMS) than in those who were not fed 
with the same. Those populations, wherein a pre-existing tradition of 
artificial feeding is present, infants are at further risk during a crisis 
situation like Tsunami. Breast feeding practices need strengthening even in 
routine conditions to tackle a disaster rather than intervention after the 
disaster. 

PMID: 16951437 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] 

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