Ankyloglossia in breastfeeding infants. An update.

Short frenulum, or ankyloglossia, may lead to breastfeeding problems, with an impact on infant development, nipple damage, and early abandonment of breastfeeding. There are currently no homogeneous diagnostic criteria, thus leading to both overdiagnosis and underdiagnosis and associated clinical consequences. The challenge to approach this condition lies in establishing whether it is a normal anatomical variation or a lingual frenulum without a functional impact and when breastfeeding difficulties which are typically attributed to it are actually caused by the frenulum.

Is it compatible with breastfeeding? www.e-lactancia.org: Analysis of visits, user profile and most visited products.

Introduction: One of the factors to influence abandoning breastfeeding is mothers' use of medications. The www.e-lactancia.

[Mastitis update.].

Mastitis is one of the main causes of avoidable cessation of breastfeeding which increases morbidity in childhood, however, there is no uniformity in diagnostic and therapeutic criteria. The diagnosis of acute mastitis is mainly clinical. Only in certain cases, a milk culture is indicated.

[Epidemiological surveillance of vertically-transmitted Chagas disease at three maternity hospitals in the Valencian Community].

Introduction And Aim: Immigration to Spain of Latin Americans with Chagas disease in its indeterminate phase could result in vertical transmission of the disease or transmission by transfusion or organ transplantation. To ascertain the magnitude of this problem, we investigated the prevalence of bearers among women who gave birth in 3 state maternity hospitals in the Valencian Community and the incidence of vertical transmission.

Patients And Methods: An immunoprecipitation test to detect anti-Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies was carried out on 624 pregnant Latin American women.

A breastfeeding e-learning project based on a web forum.

Objective: The Internet has introduced new ways of learning that may complement medical training during the residency period. We describe the experience with a new method of e-learning for training in human lactation and breastfeeding counselling. Pediatric residents participated in the Human Lactation Forum maintained by the Spanish Pediatric Association Breastfeeding Committee, a site on the Internet where parents may write in for pediatric advice on breastfeeding.

Full breastfeeding and hospitalization as a result of infections in the first year of life.

Objective: Our objective was to assess the effect of breastfeeding on the probability of hospitalization as a result of infectious processes during the first year of life

Methods: We followed 1385 infants from birth to age 1 year between 1996 and 1999. Recruitment and data collection were done at the 6-month well-infant visit under the National Child Health Program. Full breastfeeding, hospital admission, and other relevant variables related to the delivery, infant, mother, health services system, and sociologic aspects were recorded.