時尚雙語:母乳餵養可防止孩子尿牀

A woman breastfeeds her baby in Bordeaux, southwest France April 27, 2006.

Children breast-fed as infants are less likely to wet the bed later on, researchers reported on Wednesday, probably because they have a developmental edge.

There is strong evidence that in many cases bed-wetting can "result from delayed neurodevelopment," said the report from the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

"There is biological plausibility in inferring that breast-feeding protects against bed-wetting and our results show a strong statistical association" although not enough to prove a direct cause-effect.

Breast-feeding is beneficial because of the role that certain fatty acids passed onto the infant play in brain development, said the study published in the July issue of Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

The study was based on 55 children who were bed-wetters at ages 5 to 13 and 117 in the same age range who were not. Of the bed-wetters, 45 percent had been breast-fed, compared to 81 percent of those who were continent at night.

本週三，研究人員公佈，嬰兒期喝母乳的兒童以後不容易尿牀。這可能是因爲用母乳餵養的孩子發育的比較好。

此研究報告由新澤西州新不倫瑞克羅伯特·伍德·約翰遜醫科學校發表。報告稱，事實有力證明，在很多情況下，尿牀都是"緣於神經發育遲緩"。

“說母乳餵養能夠防止尿牀，這在生物學上是能講得通的，而且我們的研究結果也爲此提供了有力的數據支持。”但這些數據還不足以證明二者之間存在直接的因果關係。

研究報告中說，母乳餵養是有好處的，因爲嬰兒在母乳中所吸收的某些脂肪酸能促進大腦發育。此研究報告發表在美國兒科研究會期刊《兒科》的7月號上。

此項研究的研究對象爲55名年齡在5歲至13歲之間的尿牀兒童以及117名相同年齡段的非尿牀兒童。在尿牀兒童中，有45％是母乳餵養的，而在那些不尿牀的兒童中，該比重是81％。