Iron sufficiency in breast-fed infants and the availability of iron from human milk.

摘要: Four infants were studied who had been exclusively breast-fed for periods varying from 8 to 18 months. All grown sufficiently have exhausted their prenatally acquired iron endowment with respect meeting current needs maintaining normal hemoglobin levels. values and serum values. Studies of absorption breast milk cow's performed in ten adults. The the human was significantly higher. These findings suggest that present is sufficient meet requirements infant until he approximately triples his birthweight.