Breast feeding

Breast feeding: Breastfeeding as a risk for other conditions.
Introduction: The act of breastfeeding an infant has certain associated risks. The mother may be subject to breast conditions such as mastitis or breast abscess. Mother-to-infant disease transmission can also occur in breastfeeding for some diseases.

Condition count: 8; see list of conditions below.

Risk factors: Risk Factor Center, risk factor list

Breast feeding: Diseases list

The following list of medical conditions have 'Breast feeding' or similar listed as a risk factor in our database:

B

• Breast abscess ... breast feeding

C

• Chronic Hepatitis B ... breast milk
• Cytomegalovirus ... breast milk

H

• Hepatitis B ... breast milk
• HTLV-1 ... breast-feeding from HTLV-1 positive mother

M

• Mastitis ... breast feeding

O

• Osteoporosis ... breast feeding

T

• Tropical Spastic Paraparesis ... breast-feeding from HTLV-1 positive mother

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