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Coconut oil can benefit to the mother ..

Special composition of fats in breast milk contains fatty acids, lauric acid and capric acid has strong antibacterial properties. These fatty acids offer the children, such as herpes viruses and HIV, protozoa such as Giardia lamblia, and bacteria such as chlamydia and heliocobater.

1998 study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that mothers who breastfeed and who will benefit from coconut oil and coconut other products, significantly increased lauric acid and capric acid in breast milk. As a result, milk production increased antimicrobial protection that provides better protection to the child.


Pregnant women are stored as fat in order to ensure effective breastfeeding. Each of lauric acid and capric acid in the diet is part of the fat reserves. Fat, breast milk, breastfeeding is from these transactions, as well as their current diet. If the diet does not contain lauric acid, milk fat and usually contain around 3% lauric acid and round 1% capric acid.

If a woman breast-feeding lauric acid added to foods diet, plenty of milk is used, increase significantly the level of three times the original level and nearly double the amount of capric acid. In countries where coconut oil is the basis for the amount of lauric acid in breast milk may be as high as 21% and capric acid to 6%, should be protected from parents of children with viruses, bacteria and protozoa.

Coconut oil can be used in place of butter for cooking and oven. It can be mixed with oatmeal or even as a loophole. In addition to its antibacterial properties of this oil is useful for the skin. Pregnant women in many cultures around the world coconut oil rubbed into the abdomen to keep the skin soft and prevent itching extended .

REFERENCES

Fife, Bruce. The Healing Miracles of Coconut Oil

Francois CA, Connor SL, Wander RC, Connor WE. Acute effects of dietary fatty acids on the fatty acids of human milk. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1998;67:301-308.

Bach, A.C., et. al. 1989. Clinical and experimental effects of medium chain triglyceride based fat emulsions-a review. Clin. Nutr. 8:223

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