Role of protein rich maternal diet in infantile colic.
Infantile colic in exclusively breastfed infant is very common. The mother in this situation gets panickyand under stress. This is very common emergency in paediatric hospital. Infantile colic is characterised by paroxysms of uncontrollable crying in an otherwise healthy and well fed infants younger than three months of age, more specifically infantile colic is defined as cry exceeding 180 minutes per 24 hours on 3 days in the week in first 3 months of life. The incidence of infantile colic is 5 to 19% in different studies. The mothers' description of this condition is that the breastfed baby who has been apparently alright in the day, frowns, his face becomes red, draws up his legs, screams, continues to cry for about 2 to 20 minutes and then attack ends suddenly. Episodes of cry are usually clustered in the late evening and early morning hours, which may cause significant disruption of family interactions. To find out the any supportive cause for infantile colic pertaining to maternal diet, we have conducted a study, where 110 crying infants were examined who happened to attend paediatric department over a period of one year. In this study it was found that more infants (50%) were in the age group >2-3 months, then >1-2 months (39.09%). Most of the patients happened to attend in casualty hours (5PM-9 AM) than in OPD hours (9 AM - 5 PM). Most cases (30.9%) took pulses in last 48 hours, followed by buffalo milk (20%). Most mothers (n=34) took pulses in diet in last 48 hours. It can be concluded that protein rich diet in one of the factor causing infantile colic.
Department of Paediatrics, Padmashri Vikhe Patil Medical College, Ahmednagar 400411.
Sunil
S
Mhaske
Sandeep
S
Mhaske
S
S
Badrinarayan
Rohan
R
Zade
Ujjwala
U
Shirsath
D001942:Breast Feeding; D003085:Colic / Q000209:etiology*; D004044:Dietary Proteins / Q000009:adverse effects*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D039382:Maternal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
D004044:Dietary Proteins