Toddlers on bottle for more than a year prone to iron deficiency: study
9th Nov 2005, 02:26 GMT
Infants who are fed milk through the bottle for over a year face increased chances of deficiency of iron, an American study has found. Toddlers who are bottle-fed consume large volumes of non-iron-fortified milk.
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