breast feeding

4. • Yet aggressive marketing of breast milk substitutes continues to
discourage women from breastfeeding, putting both children’s and
women’s health at risk.
• adoption the International Code of Marketing of Breast milk
Substitutes
• some marketers of baby foods exploited the COVID-19 pandemic to
promote their products by invoking unfounded fears that
breastfeeding could transmit COVID-19.

5. • Research
• Promote continued basic and clinical research in the field of
breastfeeding.
• Encourage investigators and funding agencies to pursue studies that
further delineate the scientific understandings of lactation and
breastfeeding that lead to improved clinical practice in this medical
field.216

6. ANTI-INFECTIVE FACTORS
• Immunoglobulin, principally secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA), coats
intestinal mucosa and prevents bacteria from entering the cells;
• WBC- kill micro-organisms;
• Whey proteins (lysozyme and lactoferrin) - kill bacteria, viruses and
fungi;
• Oligosacccharides - prevent bacteria from attaching to mucosal surfaces.

11. • Employers to provide appropriate facilities and adequate time in the
workplace for breastfeeding and/or milk expression.
• Encourage child care providers to support breastfeeding and the use
of expressed human milk provided by the parent.
• Support the efforts of parents and the courts to ensure continuation
of breastfeeding in separation and custody proceedings.
• Encourage development and approval of governmental policies and
legislation that are supportive of a mother’s choice to breastfeed