Is it true that if a baby did not drink breast milk in infancy, his immune system becomes weaker later in life?
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Is it true that if a baby did not drink breast milk in infancy, his immune system becomes weaker later in life?
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Dr. Yash Khanna
Family Medicine
In brief: Brest fed babies
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The babies who are breast fed get less infections then formula fed during childhood as they aquire some antibodies from the mother through the breast milk.Later in life there does not seem to be any difference
In brief: Brest fed babies
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