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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 51, 1067-1074, Copyright © 1990 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Vitamin B-6 status of Egyptian mothers: relation to infant behavior and maternal-infant interactions

AL McCullough, A Kirksey, TD Wachs, GP McCabe, NS Bassily, Z Bishry, OM Galal, GG Harrison and NW Jerome
Department of Food and Nutrition, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907.

Functional consequences of marginal maternal vitamin B-6 status for behavior of the neonate and for mother-infant interactions at age 3-6 mo were assessed by a double-blind procedure. In 27 of 70 Egyptian village women studied, vitamin B-6 concentration of their milk was considered indicative of poor maternal vitamin B-6 nutriture. Neonatal behavior, quantified by the Brazelton Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale, showed that consolability, appropriate build-up to a crying state, and response to aversive stimuli were significantly correlated with maternal vitamin B-6 nutriture. Naturalistic observational procedures, used twice monthly with infants aged 3-6 mo, indicated that mothers assessed as having marginal vitamin B-6 status were less responsive to their infants' vocalizations, showed less effective intervention to infant distress, and were more likely to use older siblings as care-givers than were mothers of better vitamin status. We conclude that vitamin B-6 was a factor influencing both the behavior of the mother and her infant.


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