1Professor (Community Medicine)
2Consultant CMO Office, Gaziabad, UP, India
3Professor, (Community Medicine), Subharti Medical College, Meerut, UP., India
4Assistant Professor (Biostatistics) Subharti Medical College, Meerut, UP., India
5Associate Professor (Medical Sociology), Department of Community Medicine, Subharti Medical College, Meerut, UP., India
*Corresponding Author: Dr. Pawan Parashar Professor, Deptt. of Community Medicine, Subharti Medical College, Meerut, UP
Online published on 21 July, 2018.
In many countries across the world, the practice of giving new born babies other substances (pre lacteal feeding) even before lactation is a common cultural practice. Prelacteal feeding is an underestimated problem in a developing country like India, where infant mortality rate is quite high.
To know the prevalence and effects of socio-demographic factors on prelecteal feeding practices among the lactating mothers in Meerut city UP.
A cross-sectional study included 322 women who had a live birth during last one year. A pre-designed and pre-tested questionnaire was used for data collection.
Data was analyzed using appropriate statistical tests by (SPSS) version 21.0 for Windows and data were analyzed using the chi-square test.
Study findings showed that 232 (72.05%) of the mothers had given pre-lacteal feedings to their newborn. Ghutti (47.8%), honey (13.4%) and others (10.9) like tea, artificial milk, Gur (Jeggary) etc. had given as Prelacteal feed.
The problem of prelacteal feeding is still prevalent in India. In our study, (72.05%) of the mothers had given pre-lacteal feedings to their newborn.
Pre lacteal feeding, Socio-demographic factors, Urban Slum area
