The Year Book of Pediatrics

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: prevent indigestion, nervousness, and especially consumption. Physical culture teaches self-control. DIETETICS. Breast Milk. The importance of breast milk in prolongation of lactation is pointed out by T. S. Southworth.1 The writings of Southworth on this subject have been extensively quoted. Owing to the...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: prevent indigestion, nervousness, and especially consumption. Physical culture teaches self-control. DIETETICS. Breast Milk. The importance of breast milk in prolongation of lactation is pointed out by T. S. Southworth.1 The writings of Southworth on this subject have been extensively quoted. Owing to the importance of the subject, they deserve repetition.] He says if the breast milk is scanty, or appears to disagree with the child, the mother either is out of health, anemic or constipated. She is securing too little fresh air or exercise, she is taking too little fluid food of the right kind, or she is not upon a plain, sensible diet. Diet during Jactation. The four fluids upon which the mother should depend throughout lactation, to the practical exclusion of all others, are milk, thin cornmeal gruel, water and cocoa. She should drink a quart or more of milk in the twenty-four hours. The gruel should be made of yellow cornmeal. It may be prepared with or without milk, but always of such a consistency that it may be drunk from a bowl two or three times a day. Water should be taken freely throughout the day, keeping in mind that the nursing mother requires at least 3 quarts of fluid in twenty-four hours. Cocoa, if made by prolonged boiling, is a healthful stimulant to the secretion. The remainder of the diet should consist of nutritious and digestible food. Beer is of little nutritive value and often disturbs the infant. Malt extract should be used only where analysis has shown the milk to be very deficient in fat. Constipation and Anemia. Blaud's pill is an excellent form of iron, cither alone or guarded by cascara, which is the most suitable laxative for nursing women. Sleep, exercise and fresh air are all of great importance. Exercise. If, with regular hours f...