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| Title |
Breastfeeding may improve nocturnal sleep and reduce infantile colic: Potential role of breast milk melatonin
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| Published in |
European Journal of Pediatrics, December 2011
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| DOI | 10.1007/s00431-011-1659-3 |
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| Authors |
Anat Cohen Engler, Amir Hadash, Naim Shehadeh, Giora Pillar |
| Abstract |
Melatonin is secreted during the night in adults but not in infants. It has a hypnotic effect as well as a relaxing effect on the smooth muscle of the gastrointestinal tract. It is plausible that breast milk, which consists of melatonin, may have an effect on improving infants' sleep and reducing infantile colic. Our first goal was to assess the differences in the prevalence and severity of infantile colic and nocturnal sleep between breast-fed infants and supplement-fed infants. The second was to characterize the profile of melatonin secretion in human breast milk compared to artificial formulas. Ninety-four mothers of healthy 2 to 4-month-old infants filled a questionnaire regarding irritability/potential infantile colic and sleep characteristics. For the second part, we measured melatonin levels in breast milk of five women every 2 h during 24 h and in three samples of commonly used artificial formulas. Exclusively breast-fed infants had a significantly lower incidence of colic attacks (p = 0.04), lower severity of irritability attacks (p = 0.03), and a trend for longer nocturnal sleep duration (p = 0.06). Melatonin in human milk showed a clear circadian curve and was unmeasurable in all artificial milks. |
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The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 45 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 14 | 31% |
| United States | 9 | 20% |
| Brazil | 3 | 7% |
| Australia | 2 | 4% |
| Netherlands | 2 | 4% |
| South Africa | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 2% |
| Puerto Rico | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 0 | 0% |
| Unknown | 11 | 24% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 31 | 69% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 8 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 9% |
| Scientists | 2 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 3 | 1% |
| Brazil | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 196 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 34 | 17% |
| Student > Master | 27 | 13% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 26 | 13% |
| Researcher | 23 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 38 | 19% |
| Unknown | 45 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 47 | 23% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 32 | 16% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 29 | 14% |
| Neuroscience | 11 | 5% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 6 | 3% |
| Other | 21 | 10% |
| Unknown | 57 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 181. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 December 2019.
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#997
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#2
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