Maternal food-avoidance diets and dietary supplements during breastfeeding.

ABSTRACT:

Aims

To identify maternal food-avoidance diets and dietary supplement use during breastfeeding, and to explore factors associated with food avoidance diets.

Design

A prospective mother-child birth cohort study.

Methods

Electronic questionnaires were answered by 1,462 breastfeeding mothers 6 months postpartum in the Preventing Atopic Dermatitis and Allergies in Children (PreventADALL) study from 2014-2016. Demographic and antenatal factors were analysed for associations with food avoidance diets in 1,368 women by multiple logistic regression.

Results

Overall, 289 breastfeeding women (19.8%) avoided at least one food item in their diet, most commonly cow's milk in 99 women (6.8%). Foods were most often avoided due to conditions in the child, maternal factors or l

SUBMITTER: Nordhagen LS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9748056 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature