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Most Read. COVID vaccine for children ages receives final approval. Read the latest issue. Subscribe to AAP News. Column collections. Topic collections. News Latest News Archive. Close Modal. Each year researchers discover new factors in human milk that are beneficial to babies.
I suspect that researchers have only scratched the surface of what amazing factors exist in human milk. The following is what we know. What is even more intriguing is what we do not yet know about how human milk benefits human babies in general and how breastfeeding reduces SIDS in particular. Respiratory and gastrointestinal infections contribute to the SIDS risk, and breastfeeding infants get fewer respiratory and gastrointestinal infections.
This virus has been implicated in causing inflammation of the lungs that could contribute to SIDS. After birth, these antibodies gradually disappear. Meanwhile, baby is making his own antibodies. By age six to nine months, he is more capable of defending himself against infection. Between two and six months, when the antibodies derived prenatally from mother are at low levels and baby has not yet made enough of his own, the immunity factors in breastmilk fill in, taking over where the placenta left off and protecting the baby while his own immune system matures.
One of the ways in which breastmilk protects the infection-vulnerable infant is through the intramammary immune system. When mother is exposed to a new germ, glands in her intestine make infection-fighting cells specifically for this germ. These special cells travel through her bloodstream to her breasts, where they announce the presence of the enemy germ.
The breast glands respond by manufacturing antibodies, which are delivered to the baby through the milk. Would it be presumptuous to call breastmilk a SIDS vaccine?
Read on. While both experience and research have long suggested that breastfed babies are intellectually advantaged, the difference has usually been attributed more to the nurturing or to the character of the mother than to the type of milk.
Researchers in England studied three hundred babies who were very premature and weighed less than four pounds. This would be a group that is at high risk for SIDS. Also significant in this study was that the more breastmilk the babies received, the higher these children scored. Since this study, over eleven more studies have concluded that breastfeeding builds better brains.
Special nutrients in human milk that are not in artificial baby milk may be the answer. Human milk contains substances such as cholesterol, linolenic acid, and taurine that enhance the development of the central nervous system.
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