Quality in Primary Care Open Access

Introduction early food in infants: Source of malnutrition in developing countries

5^th International Congress on Primary Healthcare & Family Medicine

November 29-30, 2017 Madrid, Spain

Egnon K V Kouakou, Kouame G M Bouafou, Alassane Meite, Djetouan J M Kacou, Bruno K Koko, Gustave Kouame, Siaky M Kamara, Zannou Viviane and Seraphin Kati-Coulibaly

UFR Biosciences-Felix Houphouet-Boigny University, Ivory Coast Institute of Anthropological Sciences of Development (ISAD)-University Felix Houphouet-Boigny, Ivory Coast Life and Earth Sciences Section, Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), Abidjan, Ivory Coast

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: Quality in Primary Care

Abstract:

The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of early introduction of food in infants in C���´te d�¢����Ivoire. To this end, a cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study was carried out in two health centers in Abidjan (C���´te d�¢����Ivoire). In this study, 897 women were interviewed using individual questionnaires and 956 children who received foods other than breast milk were consulted between 2 to 12 months. The data collected concerned the sex of the child, age, quality of food consumed, knowledge and practices of mothers. The results of this study revealed that before the age of six months, 40.06%; 22.48%; 14.33%; 10.04%; 8.15% and 4.91% of infants received respectively traditional weaning meals, industrial weaning meals, mixtures, honey, fruits and vegetables. These studies also showed that 12.97%, 14.64%, 18.30%, 54.07% of these children consumed their first foods other than breast milk respectively at 2; 3; 4 and 5 months. Also, among these children 50.83% were girls and 49.16% were boys. The study also found that less than 50% of women receive information on food diversification. In addition, these results should be supplemented by further studies to better define the scope of action for the promotion of breast milk in C���´te d�¢����Ivoire.