Weight Gains, Serum Protein Levels and Health of Breast Fed and Artificially Fed Infants, Full Term and Premature: A Clinical and Biochemical Study Based on 946 Infants and Children at the Mothers' Hospital (Salvation Army) and the Queen Elizabeth Hospital for Children, London

Abstract

This paper-covered book reports a study to establish standards of serum protein levels in full-term and premature infants, both breast fed and given a dried-milk formula. The variables studied include sex, birth weight, multiple birth, weight gain, hemoglobin values, and electrophoresis of serum proteins. The book is divided into four parts. Part 1 deals with weight gains and hemoglobin levels of full-term and premature infants, with a comparison of the progress of breast fed and formula fed infants. The protein requirements of premature infants are also included. Part 2 reports on the total serum protein, albumin, globulin, and nonprotein nitrogen levels of full-term and premature infants. The effects of birth weight, age, sex, feeding, and other factors on these levels are given. Part 3 covers the serum protein components as determined by paper electrophoresis and by salt precipitation. There is special reference to gamma globulin. Part 4 summarizes both the