Study Of Weaning Foods And Milk Substitutes Available For The Egyptian Infant:

Shadia Mohamad Soliman

Generally speaking, food is very essential for human live but in particular it is more essential for enfants and children . in fant the quantity and the quality of foods affect the growth of body and mentality. The best source of infant feeding is the breast milk. But sometimes the feeding wit the breast milk is difficult as in case of death of the mother, if the health of the mother can not permit the breast feeding as in T.B and if the mother has twins etc…Soartifical feeding is needed either by fres animal milk, dried types of milk substitutes. So many com-panies in different countries direct ther efforts to produce these types of foods.Therefore I shall study all types of baby foods in the eyptian market wit the study of their composition, methods of preparation, values and their indicates.This study aims also to kow the the range of the knowledge of the mothers about the value of these types and time introduction the infant feeding and their adapadation to healty infants and different diseased cases of infants.Study also aims to compare the different milk substitu-thesas their feeding value and their economic value, so I shall classfuly all types of foods into 2 main groups.1-Dried milk :A)Humanized milk e.g : S.M.A, S-26, similac aptamil, bebelac no1 .b)Half cream e.g 1 nestogen, milumil, bebelac z 12, Enfamil.c)Full cream milk e.g : Nido, france-lait, Nono, carnation, fresiana.