Urinary lactose as an index of lactation performance

Abstract

This lac tation p e r fo rma n c e s tudy a imed at the me a surement o f milk o utput as mothe r s
f requent ly say that they have difficulty in lactation out put. We co n d u c ted a c ros s -sec tiona l
study in a rural a rea o f B a n glade sh, on 129 lactating mothers with their infants o f 2 we eks to 8
mo n th s old ( s tudy group) and 112 ages matched non- lac ta ting, n o n -pregnant mothers.
Both ur inary lactose and L: C mo la r ratio signif icantly cor re lated with lactation p e r fo rma n c e
( r=0.63, P<O.OOJ, 1 -0 .7 4 , P<0.001 respec tive ly with FMS and r=0.51, P<0.001 and r=0.64,
P < 0 0 .0 0 i , re spe c t ive ly with RS) . F e e d in g f req u en cy and feeding t ime we re two imp o r ta n t
va r iable s h a v in g signif ic ant c o r re lad o n with ur inary lactose and mola e ra h o ( r=0.58, P<0,001
and r=0 .5 6 , P<0 .0 1 ) and .001 r=0.42, p<.001 and r=0.52, p<.001, respectively). La c ta t io n
p e r fo rma n c e sh owe d a pos itive cor re lation with maternal se rum a lbumin (r=0.19, p<0.05) and
in fan t ’s Wt /H t ratio ( r=0.17, p<0.05).