Non‐exclusive breastfeeding (artificial milk) vs exclusive breastfeeding: Infant morbidity ‐ allergy symptoms ‐ Infants with allergy symptoms at 18 months of age
It is very uncertain whether non‐exclusive breastfeeding (artificial milk) changes infant morbidity ‐ allergy symptoms ‐ Infants with allergy symptoms… compared with exclusive breastfeeding (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Non‐exclusive breastfeeding (artificial milk) vs exclusive breastfeeding Infant morbidity ‐ allergy symptoms ‐ Infants with allergy symptoms at 18 months of age · healthy breastfeeding full‐term infants It is very uncertain whether non‐exclusive breastfeeding (artificial milk) changes infant morbidity ‐ allergy symptoms ‐ Infants with allergy symptoms… compared with exclusive breastfeeding (very low certainty). Early additional food and fluids for healthy breastfed full‐term infants (2016) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.56 [0.35, 0.91] | 1 study · 207 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Early additional food and fluids for healthy breastfed full‐term infants 2016 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.