Dobarganes SY, Abdo RA, Arias DA, Rodríguez CaJ

Language: Spanish
References: 7
Page: 121-125
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ABSTRACT

We made descriptive study, prospective in 743 children by the age between 1 and 6 years old, which attended our consult of puericulture and allergy as part of the primary attention at the University Hospital “Calixto García”, between January 31, 1998 and January 31, 2000, with the objective of describing the behavior of the maternal nursing in our environment, also identify the maternal and newborn factors associated to the early weaning. Besides, the existing relation between the time used for the exclusive breastfeeding and the appearance of such disease in children with atopic antecedents in their families. All of them were applied a detailed allergic questionnaire (with the cooperation of their parents), where we explore the usage of the exclusive maternal nursing time, the causes of quitting this and the presence of allergic diseases during their years of life. We pointed out the age of the beginning of the manifestations and the antecedents of atopia in their families. In this investigation we could confirm that only the 33.3% of a total of 743 kept an exclusive breastfeeding for four months or more. The 66.7% of children had precocious weaning. The 79.7% of the children who were early weaning suffered any kind of allergic pathology during their first years of the first infancy. The family atopic antecedents were found in the 42.1% of all the studied children. Different economic and social factors are the responsible for the high rate of precocious weaning that deprives children of an incomparable natural protection against an elevated number of illnesses, among which that stand out the allergic ones, such as the atopic dermatitis, the bronchial asthma and the allergic rhinitis. Probably the consequent practice of a nursing maternal sole right at least during the first four months of the life, it reduces the potential risk that represents the holding of antecedent family atopia in development of allergic illnesses during the first childhood.

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