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Dear Friends:
"Iron-Deficiency Among Bottle-Fed Children" Brotanek JM et al, Arch
Pediatr Adolesc 2005;159(11):1038-42
If babies are formula fed past the age of 1 year, they can be
iron-deficient. In this study, Mexican children were found to be at particularly high
risk because their parents will formula-feed them for longer than 15 months.
In this study, 36.8% of Mexican American children were still formula-fed
between the ages of 24 and 48 months, compared with 16.9% of whites and 13.8% of
blacks.
Isn't this interesting? I did change the phrase "bottle-feeding" to
"formula-feeding" to eliminate those people using EBM in bottles.
So all the excess iron in formula, put in because cow's milk causes
occult blood loss in the GI tract and because enough iron isn't absorbed actually
isn't nutritionally sound?
Unlike human milk which was found to be iron-sufficient back in the
1970s until a baby is 18 months old...............
warmly,
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, RLC, CCE
craniosacral therapy practitioner
Faculty, Lactation Division Maternal-Infant Program, Union Institute
Film Reviews Editor, JHL
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