Breast milk substitutes leave babies with deficiencies

The baby food products said to provide nutrition are mostly artificial and therefore cannot contribute to children’s growth or their immune systems, experts say.
Children who are made to rely on such alternatives to breast milk have weak immune systems since these products are incapable of fulfilling their nutrition needs, they say.
These children in most cases are underweight and smaller in height. The scarcity of nutrition can also their weaken brain development, according to a news agency.
Forty-one per cent of these children are undersized because they are not properly breastfed, said Dr Raisul Haque, programme coordinator of BRAC Health Nutrition and Population Programme (HNPP).
Mother’s milk is recognised throughout the world as the primary source of nutrition for children since birth and until they are six months of age – a process known as Exclusive Breast Feeding or EBF.