I heard today that not breastfeeding can cause distortions in the baby's mouth and jaw. This sounds like nonsense to me but the amount I know about breastfeeding can adequately be summed up by the phrase "bugger all" Twitter, what's your verdict?
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It's interesting, because every time I ask about breastfeeding the answer is "it may be true but all we've got is observational evidence" Are there interventional trials on recommending breastfeeding?
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Replying to @GidMK
I feel like it would be hard to see up a breastfeeding intervention ethically?
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Replying to @synapse101
Maybe not breastfeeding per se, but you could test the success of an intervention aimed at getting more women to breastfeed
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Replying to @GidMK
But that's not really the same question. This is a big difficulty in getting people to understand nutrition research a RCT is not always possible/practical or ethical and indeed is not always the top of the hierarchy of evidence.
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Replying to @synapse101
Absolutely true. I just find it hard to believe that there are a vast plethora of interventions aimed at increasing breastfeeding but I can't find any research on whether they improve health outcomes associated with non-breastfeeding
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Replying to @GidMK @synapse101
Check out the PROBIT RCT - BF support, with range of outcomes up to child age 16y reported to date https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01561612 … cc
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Replying to @MaritaHennessy @synapse101 and
A lot of fascinating research there, I'm going to have to do some reading! Although, from some of the first few publications reporting long-term results...pic.twitter.com/fLTQHVUntO
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And perhaps more pertinent to my original questionpic.twitter.com/1Ws01M0Bjs
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Replying to @GidMK @MaritaHennessy and
PROBIT intervn created two prospective cohorts w/a small difference in breastfeeding of 8.3% at 1 year. All infants bf initially. 1ry outcome was gastrointestinal tract infections (9.1% vs 13.2%; adj OR, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.40-0.91)pic.twitter.com/3Ogc7ZPtTw
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