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post #1 of 14
9/6/06 at 12:23pm
Thread Starter 
Uganda: 4000 Die Daily Due to Lack of Breastfeeding
post #2 of 14
9/6/06 at 12:38pm
So incredibly sad. How do the formula companies sleep at night knowing this?! Oh, that's right...they sleep quite well in their million dollar homes far away from Africa.
post #3 of 14
9/6/06 at 5:04pm
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post #4 of 14
9/6/06 at 5:10pm
How sad, just the mere fact that kids die is bad, in top is because they are not breastfed and in top of that "4000"
post #5 of 14
9/6/06 at 5:30pm
I often wonder how many babies die in the U.S due to the same thing. I am sure it isn't as many as in Uganda but I bet it is a fair amount. The deaths are just labeled as dehydration, pneumonia, and other things like that. The marketing of breastmilk subsititutes are just as rampant here if not moreso with the availability of television. It makes me so sad. Uganda, U.S or whever babies deserve to breastfeed and moms deserve a society, culture and support system that makes it possible.
Wendi
post #6 of 14
9/6/06 at 5:48pm
This just makes me so angry. I had to immediately write a blog post, and I don't usually write about stuff like this on my blog!

I was wondering the same thing about US children too. The one sentence says "According to a recent World Health Organisation report, babies who do not breastfeed are six times more likely to die from diarrhoea or respiratory infections." I am really curious if that is worldwide or just in Uganda.
post #7 of 14
9/6/06 at 6:42pm
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Originally Posted by lactivist
I often wonder how many babies die in the U.S due to the same thing. I am sure it isn't as many as in Uganda but I bet it is a fair amount. The deaths are just labeled as dehydration, pneumonia, and other things like that. The marketing of breastmilk subsititutes are just as rampant here if not moreso with the availability of television. It makes me so sad. Uganda, U.S or whever babies deserve to breastfeed and moms deserve a society, culture and support system that makes it possible.
Wendi
I'm sure it's far less because of our access to clean water and medical treatment. But I'd have to say that the number was somewhere above zero.
post #8 of 14
9/6/06 at 7:30pm
It's 720 per year.

At least, that's the estimate.

SAD, especially if one of the 720 babies is yours.
Here's a clip from the article....





Breastfeeding appears to reduce significantly the chances that babies will die in their first year of life, researchers reported yesterday.

An analysis of a nationally representative sample of about 9,000 U.S. babies found that breastfeeding decreased the risk of dying from any cause by about 20 percent, the researchers reported.

Based on the findings, the researchers estimated that about 720 infant deaths would be prevented annually if all American women breastfed their babies for the first year, the researchers said.

"There's already a lot of reasons for women to breastfeed their babies," said Walter J. Rogan, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C. "This is one more."

Although previous studies have found that breastfeeding provides a variety of benefits for babies, including apparently reducing the risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), the study is the first to demonstrate an overall reduction in mortality among U.S. children, Rogan and other experts said.
post #9 of 14
9/6/06 at 9:49pm
That is just heartbreaking.
post #10 of 14
9/6/06 at 10:13pm
Thats soo sad. Those poor babies.
post #11 of 14
9/6/06 at 11:13pm
Several years ago, I worked in nutrition based child survival programs - the first intervention was always promotion of exclusive and extended breastfeeding. It also included vitamin A supplementation 2 x a year and iron supplementation for pregnant moms.

Just these small interventions saved thousands of lives.

Check out www.hki.org or http://www.linkagesproject.org/

Lots of people are doing some pretty amazing things supporting breastfeeding around the world, including the US Agency for International Development (USAID) - US Government taxpayer dollars at work.
post #12 of 14
9/6/06 at 11:16pm
Also, from www.wellstart.org

It has been recently estimated that 3,564 of the world's children under 5 years of age die each day (1,301,000 each year*) from causes that are preventable by optimal breastfeeding. In addition, for every child who dies, hundreds of others are sick and miserable from illnesses preventable with optimal breastfeeding. These children are the world's future. Much is already known about how to achieve optimal breastfeeding and the time to act on this knowledge is NOW! Not to do so is inexcusable.
*Jones, G, et al.
Lancet, 05, July, 2003
post #13 of 14
9/7/06 at 12:46am
Thread Starter 
Many thanks, bobandjess99, for the US info as well as siobhang for the links and other info.
post #14 of 14
9/7/06 at 1:33pm
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Originally Posted by bobandjess99
It's 720 per year.

At least, that's the estimate.

SAD, especially if one of the 720 babies is yours.
Here's a clip from the article....
If anyone wants a link to the original article via Pubmed it is here:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/q...m_uid=15121986
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