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Infant nutrition
Relationships between paediatricians and infant milk formula companies
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University of Glasgow and Royal Hospital for Sick Children, Department of Child Health, Yorkhill Hospitals, Glasgow G3 8SJ, Scotland, UK; lweaver@clinmed.gla.ac.uk
Breast is best but not always an option, and safe alternatives can only be produced through collaboration between paediatricians and formula manufacturers
Keywords: breast feeding; infant milk formulas; nutrition; conflict of interest
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Breast feeding is part of a continuum of nourishing the newborn from the womb to weaning. WHO recommend that mothers breast feed their babies for at least six months. Thereafter foods other than mother’s milk need to be introduced and complementary feeding may include cow’s milk or formula. Some babies born preterm or with specific diseases and surgical problems require special feeds from birth, particularly when expressed breast milk is not available. Some mothers choose not to feed their babies on the breast, and for them safe breast milk substitutes are available.
It would be nice to think that there was no need for artificial feeds, that all mothers would bear healthy babies who would be successfully breast fed and safely weaned on to complementary foods. But we do not live in an ideal world. We live in a complex and changing world, which includes choice, chance, and
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