[74] Method suggested by Morse and Talbot, "Diseases of Nutrition and Infant Feeding," pp. 234-235.
[75] "Diseases of Nutrition and Infant Feeding," pp. 225 and 226, by Morse and Talbot.
[76] One-half tbs. barley flour may be cooked in the water used as diluent; it should be boiled 20 minutes, strained and cooled before adding to formula.
[77] When babies are fed upon pasteurized, sterilized, or dried milk it is advisable to use orange or prune juice earlier than the seventh month. Dr. Hess suggests the use of canned tomato juice as substitute for orange juice.
[78] "Diseases of Nutrition and Infant Feeding," p. 236, by Morse and Talbot.
[79] Morse: "American Journal of Obstetrics," 1905. Hess: "American Journal Diseases of Children," 1911.
[80] "Diseases of Nutrition and Infant Feeding," p. 238, by Morse and Talbot.
[81] "Diseases of Nutrition and Infant Feeding," p. 239, by Morse and Talbot.
[82] "Diseases of Nutrition and Infant Feeding," by Morse and Talbot.
[83] The proprietary foods on the market are many, but those given above as suggested by Morse and Talbot represent the best known infant foods.
CARE AND FEEDING OF INFANTS AND CHILDREN IN ABNORMAL CONDITIONS AND IN INFECTIOUS DISEASES
~Digestive Disturbances.~--It is a well-established fact that artificially fed infants are more subject to disturbances due to diet than breast-fed infants, the digestional disturbances of the latter yielding more readily to treatment. As a rule, with the breast-fed baby it is largely a question of adjusting the diet of the mother, of increasing the fluid in her diet, of seeing that she takes the requisite amount of exercise in the open air, and of lengthening the intervals between feedings or of giving the baby water just before putting him to the breast. With the artificially fed infant it is an entirely different proposition.
~Causes in Artificially Fed Infants.~--The digestive disturbances may arise from any one of half a dozen or more causes. The constituents in the milk may be in the wrong proportion. The amount given at a feeding may be too great or too little. The dilution may be too great or too small to meet the needs of the infant. Or the milk may contain the microörganisms which bring about fermentation or putrefaction. Any or all of these causes may assail the artificially fed baby. Consequently, all the care that can be exercised must be resorted to in the feeding of these babies, not only after digestional disturbances arise, but as a means of their prevention. In the preceding chapter the methods generally used in the feeding of normal infants were discussed. We now proceed to the feeding under abnormal or pathological conditions.