This document discusses the advantages and disadvantages of breastfeeding and immunization. It outlines 10 advantages of breastfeeding including optimum nutrition, economic benefits, convenience, immunological benefits from maternal antibodies, and reduced risk of various infections. It notes some problems with breastfeeding like inadequate milk production and discusses addressing issues like engorgement or abscesses. The document also discusses immunization, noting disadvantages can include pain, fever, or allergic reactions at injection sites, while acknowledging in developing countries breastfeeding may be recommended due to lack of alternative nutrition. It concludes by asking if there are any questions.

1. Breastfeeding and immunization
Dr Shambhavi Sharma

3. Advantages of breast feed
1. Optimum fluidity and warmth
2. Economical
3. Convenient: no need to carry utensils
4. Physiological: sweetest milk with high
lactose and digestible protein, lipids rich in
EFA

4. 5. Biochemically:
Rich in proteins
6.Microbiologically:
Sterile and less chance of contamination
7.Immunoligically
Maternal antibodies

5. 8. Psychologically: Emotional stabilty, mother infant feeding
9. Mental growth: Breast fed have higher IQ than those with other
milks
10. Maternal benefits:
• decreases post partum bleed,
• involution of uterus,
• burn off extra fat that has accumulated during pregnancy decreases
breast and ovarian carcinoma
• Natural birth spacing
11. Epidemiologically: breast feed baby is 14 times less likely to die
from diarrhea, 4 times less likely to die from respiratory disease, 2.5
times less likely from other infections.

6. HIV and breast feeding:
• Ideally breastfeeding must be avoided in HIV
infection
• But In developing countries like ours where
there is no proper supplimentation for
feedin,breastfeeding is allowed in order to
prevent malnutritions and its complication

7. Problems with breastfeeding
Inadequate milk production and secretion:
maintain maternal nutrition
 keep the mother calm and comfortabe while
breast feeding
Convince about importance breast feeding
Expression of breast millk if breast engorgement
Proper attachment while feeding
Proper and timely treatment of breast abscesses

8. • Immunization

10. • DISADVANTAGES OF VACCINATION:
Pain,swelling,redness,tenderness,abscess at
injection site
Fever
Cough,coryza,diarrhea,vomiting
Vaccine associated paralytic polio
Vaccine associated measles
Rashes,allergic reaction, anaphylactic shock

11. • Thank you
• Any questions??