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The Inhibitory Effect of Breast Feeding

STANLEY A. PLOTKIN, MD; MICHAEL KATZ, MD; ROY E. BROWN, MD, DTM & H; JOSEPH S. PAGANO, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1966;111(1):27-30.

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BREAST feeding of infants is an almost universal feature in developing countries. In these countries it would be desirable to immunize against poliomyelitis at birth because of the high incidence of the disease in infancy^1,2 and the difficulty of persuading mothers to bring back infants for immunization at a later age.

However, data for Cleveland infants reported by Lepow et al³ showed that breast feeding had an inhibitory effect on live virus vaccination. Their accumulated results have recently been published,⁴ as well as an experimental study demonstrating that bovine colostrum containing poliovirus antibody when fed to infants⁵ also inhibited live virus immunization. Holquin et al⁶ and Sabin et al⁷ have also concluded that breast feeding is detrimental to the success of oral poliovirus vaccination.

In view of these reports, we sought to determine whether immunization of breast-fed newborn infants with attenuated poliovirus would have . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations

From the Wistar Institute (Drs. Plotkin, Katz, and Pagano); the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, Makerere Medical College (Drs. Katz and Brown); and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (Drs. Plotkin and Katz). Dr. Pagano is presently at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Footnotes

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