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Marketing of Breast milk Substitutes Recommendation and Practices
Dočkalová, Jitka ; Schneidrová, Dagmar (advisor)
The topic of my thesis Marketing infant formula - recommendations reality I chose based on their own experience with motherhood, breastfeeding and marketing of infant formula. Personally, I must say that despite all the medical education, I initially had a problem with breastfeeding. I never thought, how much patience and effort will have to make in a situation that is so natural and seemingly simple. I have not the slightest doubt that women who are less educated and less motivated, are an easy target marketing infant nutrition. In the hospital is no exception that newborns have dokrmují in the first days of life and not medically indicated situations. In counseling pediatricians and pharmacies are freely available leaflets that promote substitute for breast milk. For women, this can mean that substitute for breast Milk is something normal for a child just as valuable as breastfeeding. at doubt whether infants breast milk enough, it is very important to support health professionals and other stakeholders. If this support is missing or even doctors offer mothers samples of breast milk substitutes is only a small Step to the mother chooses not to breastfeed. In this work I would like to point out the fact that breastfeeding in our society is increasingly replaced by substitutes feeding breast milk, even in...
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Contamination of powdered infant formula by Enterobacter sakazakii and other pathogens
Selmer, Arne ; Schneidrová, Dagmar (advisor)
Contamination of powdered infant formula by Enterobacter sakazakii and other pathogens will be considered in the following text with a description of the bacteria and their route of contamination as well as their pathological sequels together with preventive measures. E.sakazakii is a gram negative rod within the family Enterobacteriaceae. E. sakazakii in powdered infant formula has been implicated in outbreaks with sepsis, and infections of the central nervous system causing meningitis, cysts, brain abscess and necrotizing enterocolitis. Mortality has been reported to be as high as 50% but has decreased to less than 20% in the recent years. For those who survive subsequent developmental delay and hydrocephalus is a well recognized sequels. Enterobacter species are biochemically similar to Klebsiella, but unlike Klebsiella, it has has been found to be more resistant to osmotic and dry stress. Although exact virulence mechanisms are unknown, it is known that a small percentage of E.sakazakii cells can survive for extended periods in dehydrated powdered infant formula. While the organism has been detected in different types of food, only powdered infant formula has been linked to outbreaks of diseases. Disease caused by E. sakazakii in infants has been associated with the consumption of commercially prepared...
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