It’s going to be hard gauge what’s a lot of milk caught in the chest
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Parents can be a day to track what breast milk drinks their kid, thanks to a device that sends alerts to their smartphones in real time.
“A common anxiety around breastfeeding is the insecurity that surrounds the amount of breasts taken by the child,” as Daniel Robinson In northwestern University in Illinois. “Tension increases for breastfeeding mothers, parents and even clinics.” Unfortal babies can grow easier and, in extreme cases, can be dehydrated.
The clinic often weighed what children were healed by evaluating them before and after a feed, and it was always filling with diapers, but Robinson’s steps.
To develop a more accurate metric, he and his companions build a device consisting of four electrodes, every few centimeters wide, turning away from the chest, away from the knot. Two electrodes send weak electric electric waves from one side of the chest to another, where they received in the second pair.
The device sends these records to a smartphone app that has been calculated what milk is released in real time, based on electrical signals released, Robinson said.
In order to test the fact that the researchers have used 12 nursing women while they use chest bombs to express bottles for about 15 minutes. The system estimates the amount of milk collected within 2 milliligers of real value, generally, in each participant expressing an average of 50 militan.
It suggests that the device can make parents, under the control of clinics, to track their children ‘ fOOD And make appropriate changes, such as possible addition of milk formula, says Robinson.
The device contains sticky electrodes attached to the chest
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In another experiment, one of the women wearing the device while breastfeeding. The app is estimated that his child drinks 24 milliligers of milk, similar to 20 millimeters is the child calculation by evaluating the child before and after feeding, as Robinson.
“One of the most common factors of mothers with the terms of breastfeeding is to understand that they have insufficient milk, so this method is helpful if the repositioning of milk flow,” as Mary some at the University College London.
But greater studies should verify the accuracy of the way, as well as the device that interfere with milk production, there are long-term effects of parents, as it Amy Brown In Swansea University in the UK.
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