colostrum
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- noun
- /kəˈlɑstrəm/
- Specialized
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calostro
- The taboo against colostrum, which has been found in a wide variety of cultural settings, stems from its color and consistency.
- colostrum for infants
- give infants colostrum
What's your thoughts on probiotics and colostrum supplements, prebiotics, all of that stuff?
- What's your thoughts on probiotics and colostrum supplements, prebiotics, all of that stuff?
- So Yep, our first package, Armora Colostrum Immune revival airplanes.
- But yeah, I think this like colostrum products generally are going to be more widely discussed.
Examples
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Therefore, although many mothers in Western Europe must have denied their newborns the breast for two or three days following birth, when they produced only colostrum, women who came under the care of physicians probably waited longer than less privileged women to begin breastfeeding.
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One area in which medical writers revealed women's behavior involves breastfeeding immediately following birth, when colostrum rather than milk is produced in the breasts.
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I have read that colostrum is good for adult humans in some cases of certain diseases.
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What about bovine-origin colostrum that you can purchase at the feed store?
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The fear of colostrum was unfortunate, for modern research has demonstrated unmistakable benefits to neonates from drinking it.
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By 1800, physicians rarely argued against giving infants colostrum.
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After the acceptance of the healthfulness of colostrum in the middle of the eighteenth century, we see a sudden cultural shift toward even greater regard for women's work as breastfeeders.
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In 1748, William Cadogan published a highly influential, popular treatise on maternal breastfeeding that criticized mothers' fears of colostrum.
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The leading expert on English breastfeeding practices, Valerie Fildes, found that the physicians who wrote medical advice books began recommending colostrum as more nourishing than any other milk in 1719.
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During the first few hours after giving birth, the mother produces colostrum, which is packed with essential nutrients.
Surface Forms
Etymology
Colostrum comes from a Greek word kolostron that meant 'a thick, waxy substance'. So, colostrum is easy to remember as the thick, yellow first milk a mother makes after birth that helps protect the newborn.