It is currently supposed well that the milk (maternal or industrial milk ler age) must be the only food of the child during first four-six months of life. Indeed, knowledge today more definite of the ripening of the main systems and apparatus of the new-born baby, as well as...

Dani le C., young mother of a small 4-month-old boy, J r me, consults the dietician to have definite information on the way of feeding her baby. Indeed, J r me is breast-fed since the birth, and having to shortly take back the job, Dani le C. wonders about the holding of change...

More frequent at the child that at the adult, dermatitis atopique key about 10 % children of less than 10 years. She is generally of genetic origin and develops on a predisposed family ground. Simply the skin of the atopique plays no more its role of protection facing...

Cradle caps belong to the baby what dandruff belongs to the adult. Indeed, they have the same causative agent, a mushroom answering the soft oval name Pityrosporum. He develops on a particular ground, hyperseborrhoea (skin which secretes a lot of sebum) where from the scientific name of this...

Even if the percentage of new-born babies nursed at the exit of motherhood augmented these last years, France stays in the tail of europeens countries, both in percentage and in length of feeding. However, in spite of progress of maternis s milk, mother's milk does not lack arguments. France is...

Weaning is a very important period for the new-born baby in the perspective of its health and of its nutrition, as well as for his psychological development. IL begins with the introduction of food besides the maternal milk and continues till the end of feeding, instant when the child is completely included...

The belly of the mother is the best brood hen for the child; its temperature is enough to avoid any risk of hypothermia. This extended contact with the skin of the mother (not only the time of the photo) is an element importing from the first link mother-child. Studies showed that absence of...

From birth, the baby is more or less awakened, but it is right away that it is necessary to put him in the breast. Moreover, the smell of the soap can unsettle its capacities of training, because it is the olfaction which guides the child in the suckling. It is therefore enough to wipe the child before putting him fast...

Feeding is a cultural gesture "learnt" by the little girl by noticing the women who encircle it nursing. In our societies, where the culture of the nursing bottle is predominant and feeding an act "hidden ", the young mothers have practically never seen a mother nursing. It is therefore essential to know...

To recommend a lengthening of the breast-feeding until four months of age at the very least can allow to protect the child against a risk from atopie or of asthma. Such is one of the conclusions of the prospective study of cohort led by an Australian team. A significant reduction of impact is noticed, at the age of six years...

Giardia intestinalis is a very frequent intestinal parasite in the planetary ladder, including in France. The clinical picture is generally that of a diarrhoeia with risks of dehydration and of a malabsorption. Two factors at least seem to intervene in the evolution of illness: virulence of the parasite and answer...

Besides the obvious interest of the breast-feeding in the establishment of relation mother-child, the feeding in the breast protects the child, not only against the gastro-intestinal and respiratory infections (otites), but also against m ning es infections. Studies also showed that the rate of decease by cot death was weaker...

By counting milk for premature, milk or lacteal food for new-born babies, following milk, of regime for regurgitations, without lactose, first age, second age, hypoallerg niques, etc. there is not less than 95 food lacteal different (not including milk of "growth") offered in the sagacity of the pediatrician...

From 4 - 6 months, the child is physiologically completely capable of ingesting and of digesting solid food. Some signs of physiological maturity show that, from four months, the child is ready to accept other food than milk: increase of salivation; improvement of digestion and of...

The colics of the new-born baby, traditionally defined by the rule of 3 Wessel (tears during more than 3 hours a day, more than 3 days a week, and more than 3 weeks) interest 10 - 25 % children and, in general, disappear between 3 and 4 months. They are often...

Principles and advice concerning the feeding of the new-born babies and of the children were often dictated by modes, but also of cultural habits and the state of medical knowledge. The end of the 5th and the 6th month correspond to the passage of exclusive lacteal feeding in the bet under way proqressive...

These last years, it was possible to note a development of offer in milk infantile with for purpose to bring closer to industrial milk the most possible some maternal milk and also d to take care of the benign digestive disorders; but for consequence, parents and doctors lost by...