The AAO Journal, 1998/06, 8(2):25-33, type of study: ,ppt,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

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Keywords:

breastfeeding [38]
fat content [1]
female [654]
infants [211]
OMT [3924]
osteopathic manipulative treatment [3945]
pediatrics [573]
pilot study [215]
pretest posttest design [240]
sucking dysfunction [3]
women [607]

Abstract:

The estimation of the fat content of breastmilk, by simple centrifuge method, is a reliable measure that is easily obtained. Estimations from six infants who were feeding normally demonstrate that it provides a gold standard against which patient outcomes can be measured. A pilot study of six infants is reported on. At the time of first measurement, the difference between pre- post feed fat estimations of breastmilk was small in infants with a dysfunctional suck. Following osteopathic treatment the difference between pre- post feed fat estimations were comparable with the fat estimations from the breastmilk of infants who were feeding normally. The results are encouraging enough to warrant extending this to an age- and sex-matched case control study.