BUTUAN CITY (October 5) -- The Department of Health (DOH), Caraga Region thru Dr. Grace Lim, Maternal and Child Health Coordinator warns mothers on the ill effects of cows milk or milk formulas to infants and babies during the Milk Code Orientation here, recently.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that some 16,000 infant deaths occurred annually due to bottle-feeding. Bottle feeding is also associated by WHO to high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, diabetes, respiratory tract infection like pneumonia, stroke, meningitis, kidney problems, leukemia and other forms of cancer.
Bottle feeding, according to experts, increases the child's risk to asthma, allergy, acute respiratory disease, infection from contaminated formula, childhood cancers, chronic diseases, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity, gastrointestinal infections, mortality, otitis media and ear infections and side effects of environmental contaminants.
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