Research Abstract
Infant feeding and idiopathic intussusception.
Pisacane A, Caracciolo G, de Luca U, Grillo G, Simeone C, Impagliazzo N, Mazzarella G
The Journal of pediatrics
Oct 1, 1993
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Abstract
A case-control study showed that, compared with infants who had never been fed human milk, breast-fed infants had a relative risk of intussusception of 6.0 (95% confidence interval, 1.8 to 20.4) when breast-feeding at admission was exclusive and of 2.3 (95% confidence interval, 0.8 to 6.6) when it was partial. Exclusive breast-feeding may be a risk factor for intussusception in infancy.
Affiliation
Dipartimento di Pediatria, Università di Napoli, Italy.
External References
- PubMed ID:
- 8410515
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