Maternal lactation characteristics after consumption of an alcoholic soup during the postpartum 'doing-the-month' ritual

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 382-388

  Chien, Yeh Chung ^a   Huang, Ya Jing ^b   Hsu, Chun Sen ^c   Chao, Jane C J ^b   Liu, Jen Fang ^b  

^a HUNGKUANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Alcohol; Doing the month; Ethanol; Lactation; Milk

Indexed keywords

3 HYDROXYBUTYRIC ACID; ALCOHOL; FATTY ACID; INSULIN; LACTIC ACID; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN; SESAME SEED OIL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST MILK; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; LACTATION; MATERNAL BLOOD; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROLACTIN BLOOD LEVEL; PUERPERIUM; ADULT; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; CHINA; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECT; MILK EJECTION; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY;

SESAMUM INDICUM;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHINA; ETHANOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSULIN; LACTATION; LACTIC ACID; MILK EJECTION; MILK, HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 63849263102     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008002152     Document Type: Article

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