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Article: Research on cow milk feeding and blood loss in older infants
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- Community Practitioner
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- September 1, 2000
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Jiang T et al. Intestinal blood loss during cow milk feeding in older infants. Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine 2000; 154: 673-678
Faecal blood loss occurs in ninemonth-old babies fed cow milk, but is of such low intensity that its clinical significance is questionable, an American study has found. Nevertheless, infants without cow milk-induced blood loss were in better iron nutritional status than infants who showed blood loss.
When infants are fed pasteurised cow milk, nutritionally significant amounts of blood are lost in the faeces. Although this occult blood loss occurs only in a minority of infants, in some the amount of blood lost can be very large. In recent years ...