Haya: The Saudi Journal of Life Sciences (SJLS)
Volume-3 | Issue-05 | 447-453
Original Research Article
The Difference of Concentration Calcium on Human Breast Milk between Good Nutrition Status and Chronic Energy Loss Postpartum Mothers
St. Surya Indah Nurdin, Andi Wardihan Sinrang, Nasrudin AM
Published : May 30, 2018
Abstract
The research aimed to find out the difference in calcium concentration in
breast milk between the good nutritional status and Chronic Energy deficiency in
postpartum mothers. The research was the Cross Sectional design research type. The
samples are 40 people who were chosen using the purposive sampling technique, and
who met inclusive criteria. The samples were collected. Fourteen days after giving the
researcher, they came to the respondent's house to measure BB, LILA and 24 hours
foodrecall and milked 3 cc, done by the researcher, and will check their breast milk
through laboratory test using Colorimetric Assay. The data with not normal distributed
were tested using the statistical shapiro-wilk test with the resultof α> 0,05. The
analytical test used Mann Whitney and Chi-Square test.The research indicated that
there was a very significant difference of calcium concentration between postpartum
the mothers with good nutrition status and the mother chronic energy deficiency with
p value = 0.025 (p <0.05). The research also revealed thet postpartum mothers who
experienced the decrease of low concentration (median 166.7 mg/L) 7.0 times more
risk to experience the deficiency of cronic energy compared to the mother with
postpartum good nutrition status.