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Study Cites Danger For HIV+ Mothers And Their Children.(HIV-infected mothers who breastfeed have a higher mortality rate than those who use formula)
2001 JUL 12 - (NewsRx Network) -- by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Physicians have long suspected that breastfeeding by HIV positive mothers poses substantial health risks to children. However, researchers in Kenya have shown that breastfeeding may be dangerous to infected women as well.
R. Nduati and colleagues at the University of Nairobi conducted a study to measure the risk of HIV transmission to infants after breastfeeding from infected mothers. "However, we also analyzed data from this trial to examine the effect of breastfeeding on maternal death rates during 2 years after delivery," they wrote in the journal Lancet.
HIV positive mothers who breastfeed their children face significantly higher mortality risks than those who use formula although the reasons for this elevated risk were unclear, Nduati and coworkers reported.
The researchers examined 425 HIV positive mothers attending four different health clinics in Nairobi. They found that the women who breastfed their children were almost three times as likely to succumb to their infection as mothers who used formula to feed their infants.
Two years after delivery, the maternal mortality rate was 10.5% in the breastfeeding cohort compared with 3.8% ...
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