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Example sentences for: prelacteal

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Prelacteal feed was not an exclusion criterion in the WHO definition of exclusive breastfeeding at the time, in which the absence of food other than breast milk, drops and syrups is required during the 24 hours preceding the enquiry (page 2, http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/New_Publications/NUTRITION/who_cdd_ser_91.
The intake of three teaspoons of fluid per week and the use of prelacteal food were allowed under the definition of exclusive breastfeeding in the present paper.
Except for this amount of fluid and for prelacteal food, the absence of previous complementary foods (or more supplementary fluids than the above weekly amount) since birth was demanded for proof of exclusive breastfeeding.
Restricting the analyses to the use of non-formula prelacteal feed revealed a positive correlation with illiteracy (univariate analysis, p = 0.0068).
The fact that duration of exclusive breastfeeding, use of colostrum, and avoidance of prelacteal food were linked to health-care-related "information before birth or on the maternity ward", but not to "before birth", may indicate that we should focus our efforts on informing mothers about breastfeeding on the maternity ward.