Infant feeding / by Clifford G. Grulee.

  • Clifford Groselle Grulee
Date:
1914
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    action of the sugar is the production of fever. This is analogous to the salt fever (see later). It is not con- stant, but does occur under certain conditions and in certain organisms, and|]this fever is that of alimentary intoxication, as described by Finkelstein. Sainmont^ has also shown that cane-sugar and dextrose have a toxic action on dogs. Within the last two years not only the sugar but other carbohydrates have received exhaustive attention. South- worth^ has called attention to the value of dextrin in infant foods, and thinks that we should lay more stress on dex- trin as a constituent of the various malt foods. For the digestion of starch the duodenal secretion is of the great- est importance. It is distinctly proved that intestinal bacteria tend to form acids when there is an appreciable quantity of starch in the food. This acid formation is ordinarily not abnormal, but may easily increase to a point where it produces symptoms. By the addition of malt to the various meals, Klotz^ has shown that the combination of wheat flom* and malt extract is the hardest to ferment and produces the smallest amount of acids, while an oatmeal and malt extract produces the most. In regard to the metabolism he shows that starches spare the protein and fat and produces a distinct water retention. Inorganic Salts.—In very recent years the inorganic salts have attracted more and more attention. Meyer* estimates that the normal breast-fed infant takes about 140 liters of breast-milk in the first six months of its existence, and that 1 Monatsschr. f. Kinderheilk., 1912, x, 579. 2 Arch, of Ped., 1912, xxix, 646. »Ergeb. d. inn. Med. u. Kinderheilk., 1912, viii, 593.
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