Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-12-11 | Page 18 | Daily Health Service

o DAILY HEALTH SE VICE Mother MOthe With Tuberculosis Tub I Should Not Nurse Her Baby I ARTIFICIAL FEE FEr NG Q G SOMETIMES IS BEST FOR I BOTH PAREN AND CHILD DOCTOR FINDS e This is one of a series aeries of articles I Iby b by y Dr Fishbein on nutrition of the child By DR MORRIS FISHBEIN Editor Edito Journal of the tho American Medical Association and of Hygeia Hy Hy- geta geia the tho Health Magazine It Is la recognized that tho the mother with tuberculosis should not nurse her baby and that the tho mother with severe c chronic diseases such as Inflammation of or tho the kidneys heart disease or cancer should not be c called on to undertake this task It I la is usually customary to discontinue discontinue discon discon- nursing at nt a time when the breast is infected In case caso tho the child dc vomitIng vomitIng vomit vomit- Ing or colic or tans falls to gain in weight It Is not necessary for tor the mother to discontinue nursing In such a case she must find out from her physician whether she sho is 18 feeding feeding feed teed ing the baby biby often orten enough h or too ot often n. n whether she sho Is herself eating a proper diet and whether It is de- de drable for tor the tho baby to have havo additional additional additional addi addi- food Tho The woman who Is nursing a baby must keep herself In good physical condition and and eat tho the proper food tood In order to keep herself hersel In good i iphY phY physical condition she must have I plenty plent of or sleep and some somo exercise in inthe I tho the open air all Most authorities on tho caro care of ot Infants ad advise adIse Ise discontinuance of ot the midnight midnight feeding ceding after the first fe few fen v vwe we weeks ks They hey recommend that the mother rest for or at l lea least a t tonA one onA hour i- i very every afternoon anti and that she sho relax l I land and le rest t lot fur a n while after each cacti nursing It 11 is recognized that worry and mental strain may affect the tho quantity quan quail lIty and nature of or the tho secretion of oC milk If Ir tho tiro mother has inns not dent milk mille tho the baby will bo hungry and fretful Tho The mother will therefore therefore there there- fore get litho rc rest t and as aJ n a result tho supply SUIl of oC milk will not increase In Iii such cases tho addition of oC suitable suit suit- ablo able artificial feeding may brin bring about improvement In both th the mother and the child It has nl also also- been recognized that tha one of oC the chief factors for causing good flow Jow of or milk is stimulation t to the breast that comes from completo com com- pleto emptying by bp the infant Thus Thu me methods have havo b been en developed both boll b by massage masago o and ancI b bytho tho use of ot art artl tidal devices devices' to empty the breast In case tho infant does docs not do so Such regular emptying stimulates stimulate the tho production of milk Dr W. W McKim Mc Me Kim Marriott cites cases casell in which wc wet nurs nurses s have been heen Known to produce produce pro pro- duce more mora than a SL gallon o of milk mUk a day Tho The sl size sUc e of ot the breast and apparently apparently apparently the fact tact that the mother i Is either cither thin or fat docs not seem t to tobe tobe be o of great importance In relationship relationship relation relation- ship to to th the amount mount of ot milk that that tha tho the mother ml may produce It is no not possible to state In advance that tha an any woman oman will or will not bo be able abl to nurse her bab baby A careful stud study of ot this ability after the infant ii I Is Isborn isborn born Is li the one sure method of ot determininG determining do de- de this fact tact I II I