Mothers who have been diagnosed HIV positive are usually not willing to give milk to her child for fear of the baby contracting the virus. But mothers who exclusively breastfed their babies can actually prevent the transmission of these.
HIV + mothers tend to not want to have children and if a child does not want to breastfeed because they do not want the child contracted the illness. But the World Health Organization (WHO) on December 1, 2009 stated that HIV positive mothers can breastfeed their children exclusively.
"Mothers who are HIV positive can breastfeed their children exclusively as long as the mother is taking antiretroviral drugs (ARVs) since the beginning of her pregnancy," said Dr. Henny Hendiyani Zainal AIMI a counselor in the event the Association of Breastfeeding coffee morning Indonesia (AIMI) in Sambara Restaurant, Jakarta, Monday (21/12/2009).
If the mother is HIV positive, then since the beginning of her pregnancy have been taking antiretroviral drugs so that the virus present in the mother's body is not transmitted to her child. This is based on research conducted on HIV-positive mothers in South Africa.
"It was found that exclusively breastfed infants showed negative results against the HIV virus to infants aged 2 years and found no decrease in body resistance (immunity) of these children," said Dr. Henny.
Dr. Henny said this is likely in the body of HIV positive mothers who had formed antibodies naturally, so that the antibody is what will go into the body of the child to protect them from HIV disease.
However, research conducted in South Africa is merely a brief look at the effect if infants be breastfed exclusively for 6 months, in the sense that the baby does not get the intake other than mother's milk only.
For that to mothers who have tested positive for HIV does not hurt to give exclusive breastfeeding in the baby, but on condition that the mother continue to take antiretroviral medications since her pregnancy.
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