FOOD PRACTICES OF BREASTFED CHILDREN

• Autor(a) principal: Teixeira, Gracimary Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2015
• Outros Autores: Ferreira, Tainara Lôrena dos Santos, Carvalho, Jovanka Bittencourt Leite, Andrade, Fábia Barbosa
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Saúde (Santa Maria)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistasaude/article/view/15239

Objective: Investigating the practices of infant feeding. Method: It comes to a quantitative and evaluative research in Basic Health Units from May to August 2013, with 200 infants residing in Santa Cruz-RN city. To collect the subjects were chosen by lot and was used a semi-structured questionnaire in a booked individually environment. In the descriptive analysis, it was used the SPSS programs for data tabulation. Results: 34.5% stopped breastfeeding before two years; 79.5% used water and 7% teas; 22% ate snacks; 25.5%, sweets candies; 13% took soft drinks. Conclusion: Therefore, breastfeeding is not happening to all children as recommended by the ministry of health, in addition, sugary and processed foods are being introduced in infants. Soon, measures of health education must be made by managers and health professionals with the mothers and family members to obtain healthy food from the first hours of life.  Descriptors: Breast Feeding; Infant Nutrition; Supplementary Feeding.