Does maternal iron supplementation during the lactation period affect iron status of exclusively breast-fed infants?

Turkish Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 301-307

  Baykan, Ali ^a   Yalçin, S Songül ^a   Yurdakök, Kadriye ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Breast fed; Infant; Iron; Iron deficiency anemia; Maternal supplementation

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; FERROUS SULFATE; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; PLACEBO; STARCH; TRANSFERRIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONSTIPATION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIARRHEA; DIZZINESS; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FECES COLOR; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMOGLOBIN DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANT; INFANT FEEDING; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEDICAL RECORD; NAUSEA; NEWBORN SCREENING; NORMAL HUMAN; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SIDE EFFECT; TOOTH DISCOLORATION; VOMITING;

ADULT; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BREAST FEEDING; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FERRITINS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; IRON; IRON, DIETARY; LACTATION; PLACEBOS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846106341     PISSN: 00414301     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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