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Basics of Breastfeeding and Breast Milk Nutrition

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Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2024-2025

Course director

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 12 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 0 hours

total of: 12 hours

Subject data

  • Code of subject: OAF-ATA-T
  • 1 kredit
  • General Medicine
  • Optional modul
  • autumn
Prerequisites:

OAA-EL1-T finished

Exam course:

Course headcount limitations

min. 5 – max. 30

Available as Campus course for . Campus-karok: BTK ETK GYTK TTK

Topic

A medical doctor often encounters a pair of breastfeeding mother and breastfed baby in various ways during his carrier, since, apart from pediatricians and obstetricians, other medical doctors also operate on or pharmacologically treat breastfeeding mothers. Moreover, they sometimes visit the general practitioner with a breast inflammation, for example. The aim of the course is on one hand to provide information about the theoretical background of lactation, and on the other hand to review the development of the healthy baby/infant, and to demonstrate the relationship between delivery/puerperal stage and breastfeeding. During the talks, we will consider the pathological conditions that most often affect breastfeeding and infant nutrition, from the side of both the mother and the infant, based on the latest recommendations/lactation protocols. The talks will be enriched with communication-situation plays, case presentations, literature reviews, MediSkillsLab demonstrations that also play an essential role in understanding the psychological changes and the process of becoming a mother.

Lectures

  • 1. The meaning of mothermilk nutrition. Definitions related to breastfeeding. - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter
  • 2. Biological basics of lactation, the develpoment and the anatomy of the breast - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter
  • 3. The physiology of lactation, practical aproach of breastfeeding - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter
  • 4. Natural and patholgical birth, ceasarean section and their effekt on breastfeeding - Rácz Sándor Attila
  • 5. The development and biological needs of healthy newborn and infant. - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter
  • 6. The support of breastfeeding in obstreterical practice - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter
  • 7. The most frequent breastfeeding problems in early postpartum period - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter
  • 8. Difficulties in breastfeeding on the side of the infant - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter
  • 9. The acceptable indications of supplementation with mothermilk or formula - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter
  • 10. Difficulties in breastfeeding on the side of the mother - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter
  • 11. Examination of the breast (MediSkillsLab- demonstration) - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter
  • 12. Up-to-date informations related to breastfeeding to mothers and professionals, pharmacological databases. Oral exam. - Ráczné Mikó-Baráth Eszter

Practices

Seminars

Reading material

Obligatory literature

Lecture material

Literature developed by the Department

Lecture slides will be published on Neptun/Teams

Notes

Recommended literature

Lawrence, Ruth A., and Robert M. Lawrence. Breastfeeding: A guide for the medical professional. Elsevier Health Sciences, 2021.

Wambach, Karen, and Jan Riordan, eds. Breastfeeding and human lactation. Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2016.

(available in the library of the Institute of Physiology)

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

Félév végi számonkérés teljesítése

Mid-term exams

Personal consultation on a clinical case study in the last lecture

Making up for missed classes

Personal consultation

Exam topics/questions

Case study on the lecture topics

Examiners

Instructor / tutor of practices and seminars

Rólunk