Relationship between Mothers’ Ingestion of Fava Beans and Occurrence of Favism Attack among Their Breastfed Infants | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Health Care | ||
| Volume 13, Issue 1, March 2022, Pages 1995-2010 PDF (882.46 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejhc.2022.266931 | ||
| Authors | ||
| Hoda Ahmed Mahmoud* 1; Nabila Abdelkader Abdeldaiem* 2 | ||
| 1Lecturer of Pediatric Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Egypt | ||
| 2Lecturer of Community Health Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Cairo University, Egypt | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Favism is genetic acute hemolytic anemia that results from the ingestion of fava beans and associated with Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency. Thus, breastfed infants that have favism certain foods can potentially pass via the breast milk and cause hemolysis. Aim: to assess the relationship between mothers’ ingestion of fava beans and occurrence of favism attack among their breastfed infants. Design: a correlational descriptive design was conducted. Sample: A purposive sample of 50 mothers and their breastfed infants suffered from favism were involved in the study. Setting: The study was carried out at outpatient clinic of hematology and emergency outpatient clinic at Pediatric University Hospital which affiliated to Cairo University Hospitals. Tools: The following tools were utilized for data collection: (1) Interviewing questionnaire that included demographic data for the studied infants and their mothers, and (2) A structured questionnaire used to assess the relationship between mothers’ ingestion of fava beans and occurrence of favism attack. Results: the current study findings revealed that nearly two thirds of infants were between 6 to <12 months of age, most of mothers ingested fava beans before breastfeeding with mean duration 2.38±1.52 hours and the mean duration of infants' occurrence of favism attack after their mothers ingested fava beans and give breastfeeding was 46.48±10.91hours. Also there were highly statistically significant differences between frequency of occurrence for favism attack and infants' age, family history of G6PD deficiency and a statistical significant difference was found with the male gender. Conclusion: The current study concluded that there were highly statistically significant differences between infants’ frequency of occurrence of favism attack and infants' breastfeeding status, time and type of fava beans ingested by their mothers, a statistical significant difference was found between infants' occurrence of favism attack with mothers ingestion for large amount of fava beans, duration of mothers ingestion of fava beans before infants' breastfeeding while no statistical significant difference was found with names of fava beans. Recommendations: health education program should be designed and provided for mothers of children with G6PD deficiency particularly favism for prevention and management. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| G6PD deficiency; Breastfed infants; Mothers; Fava beans | ||
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