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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