The exclusive breastfeeding to baby for six month may not be good for their health, warned new study to mothers. As breastfeeding solely could put them at higher risk of allergies, obesity and food distaste. The British research team inquired about the guidelines issued in 2001 by WHO that advised women to breastfeed for the first six months before giving solid food to infants.
Current advice suggests weaning should occur at six months, but the UCL team say it could happen as early as four. They suggest later weaning may increase food allergies and levels of iron deficiency. Moreover, it could dissuade kids from eating foods with sour tastes that are good for them, stimulating the increase in obesity.
The objective of the study was to help children universally avoid allergies and gastroenteritis. The infants fed on formula milk obtain extra iron, but they too are exposed to other shortcomings of late preamble of solid foods. In a new study Swedish researcher associate problems with bearing gluten to a holdup in ingestion it until six months, with an idea to wait for six months.
But other breastfeeding specialists greeted the common sense findings that many mothers intuitively follow in spite of feeling guilty about ignoring official advice. But in 2003 women consented with advice which pounced from evaluation of sixteen studies. It concluded that babies given breast milk alone for six months had fewer infections.
However, another evaluation of thirty-three studies conducted at the same time found no convincing facts against initiating solids at four to six months, called weaning. There is growing evidence that breastfeeding alone for six months does not give babies all the nutrition they require, with some becoming iron deficient.
Changing official advice would be a retrograde step that plays into the hands of the baby food industry. There was indisputable evidence that breast milk bestows many health advantages on babies that last a lifetime, explained Janet Fyle, policy adviser at the Royal College of Midwives.