Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition

Normal and Therapeutic Nutrition 3(2+1)

Lesson 12:Nutritional And Food Requirements For Infants

Circumstances under which artificial feeding is essential are

• Mother suffering from serious illness.
• Another pregnancy intervenes during lactation.
• Child is too weak to nurse or cannot because of harelip or cleft palate.
• Breast milk has completely stopped or insufficient for child.
• Mother is not available to feed.
• If mother is on anticoagulants, steroids and radioactive drugs.
• Death of mother.