Posted on 07/05/2006 4:53:14 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Children breast-fed as infants are less likely to wet the bed later on, researchers reported on Wednesday, probably because they have a developmental edge.
There is strong evidence that in many cases bed-wetting can "result from delayed neurodevelopment," said the report from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
"There is biological plausibility in inferring that breast-feeding protects against bed-wetting and our results show a strong statistical association" although not enough to prove a direct cause-effect, the study said.
Breast-feeding is beneficial because of the role that certain fatty acids passed onto the infant play in brain development, said the study published in the July issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The study was based on 55 children who were bed-wetters at ages 5 to 13 and 117 in the same age range who were not. Of the bed-wetters, 45 percent had been breast-fed, compared to 81 percent of those who were continent at night. The study also found that babies who received breast milk supplemented with formula had a similar rate of bed-wetting as those who received formula alone.
All 8 of us were breast-fed, one of my brothers leaked like a sieve well into his teens..
I submit that this is too small of a sample to be reliable. It also does not appear to eliminate other possible causes (genetic, enviromental, psychological) of bed-wetting.
Well, we have come full circle today. If the Palestinian children are wetting their beds, then perhaps someone should tell their mothers to breast feed them. First, however, they would have to unstrap those bombs.
First, however, they would have to unstrap those bombs.
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unstrap the 'bombs',,
I'm chuckling at that one, Thanks. ;-)
It must be true. I haven't peed my bed since I got married.
I'm willing to give it a try. I mean, I haven't wet the bed in like 40 years, but why take unnecessary risks?
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