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Cultural Belief and Practices
among Post Partum Women inMalaysia
In aspect of Food Intake
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MembersADMW 1/2013
GROUP 2.AHLI KUMPULAN:
1. RABITAH BINTI MOHD YUSOF2 ROHAYA BT HARUN3. NORSAZILA BINTI SAHAK4. NORSYARMILA SURIA BT ABU HASHIM
5. ROZAIDAH BT MASRI6. DEVATHY A/P RAMAKRISHNAN7. MULEIYAMALAR A/P SUBRAMANIAM
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Introduction
Malaysian Dietary Guidelines (2010),
lactating women should get plenty of rest,adequate food and drinks to maintainhealth
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Why good nutrition intake is important?
- tissue healing
- avoid infections
- maintain a good health to the mother
- produce a quality breast milk.
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A lactating women needs more calorieper day i.e 2500kcal/day
Malaysia DietaryGuidelines (2010)
Calorie intake in lactating mothersuggested by Malaysia Dietary Guidelines2010 is listed in the table..
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Category Postpartum 2500kcal/day
Cereal 8 serving
Fruits 2 serving
Vegetables 3 serving
Meats 2 serving
Fish 1 serving
Nuts 1 serving
Dairy products 3 serving
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Nutrien Source
Calcium Dairy products, rice, yogurt, bean curd
Iron Egg, liver, oyster, meat without fat
Vitamin A Liver, milk, egg, fruits, yellow and red vegetables
Vitamin B2 Nuts, meat, eggs
Vitamin E Vegetable oil, nuts
A lactating mother should have a variety nutritious food intake as
in contain different nutriens. Below is the example of food source
of different nutriens.
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Cultural Belief and Practices
MALAY
Fish Allowed : haruan because can facilitate
a quick healing of wound and tissues. Restricted : poisonous fish e.g seafood,
tongkol kembung, and tongkol = believe can cause itchinessand allergic. : salted fish = beliefcan cause awful smell to lochiadischarge and weaken they body.
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UlamAlmost all types of ulam is allowed. Serai,
lengkuas, Daun cekur, bunga kantan etc isbelieved rich in vitamins and fiber and antioxidant.
Fruits and Vegetables
Restricted : all foods e.g spinach, petai beans,pumpkin, cucumber, brinjal etc. mango, melon,
pineapple, guava, papaya, star fruits,mangosteen, kuini etc = believed can cause jointpain.
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Chicken/birds
Allowed: Hitam, didik, selasih are
the types chicken that arerecommended. It must be mixed withginger and honey to return their bodystrength.
(AiminNadia,2011)
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Drinks and Herbs
Water intake is restricted. Howeverpostpartum mothers are allowed toconsume air akar kayu tonic, jamuand makjun. These are the types ofherbs which they belief can restore their
energy and body elektrolit balance.(Aishah@eshah Haji
Mohamed, 2012)
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CHINESE
A strict confinement diet is followedbecause they believe this can removethe stale blood ( lochia) and wind (intestinal gases) from mothers system.
Diet is basically consists of heatingingredients.
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Old ginger, sesame oil, wine, black vinegaretc. excessively used meal to heat the motherbody. Herbs such as Cordopsis root, RedDates, Dried Longan, Wolfberries, DOMBenedictine liquor and Dong Guai are thevital tonics believed to help body heal. Plainwater is strictly restricted because it isbelieved can cause water retention =replaced by Red Dates tea as a nourishingtea.
Grace,2011,
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Below are they foods believed to be cold in nature andshould be avoided:
Meats
Duck egg, shellfish, cuttlefish Fruits
Persimmon, pomelo, bananas, mulberry, star fruits, kiwi fruit,sugar cane, watermelon, waterchestnut.
VegetablesKangkung, some edible fungus, brasenia, bitter gourd,bamboo shoot, snake melom, seaweed, some mushrooms.
(Grace, 2011)
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According to Raven J.H. ( 2007), Meat andEgg are regarded as hot food and should
be take to heat up the body. This food whichare also viewed as full protein was thought toenrich the blood, help mothers recoveryencourage expulsion of lochia and stimulateproduction of breastmilk.
Similar to Lee M.T. (2003), boiled eggs shouldbe taken to warm as it is considered safe andwarm food.
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INDIAN
Indian traditional foods mostly based on ghee, butter,
pistachio, almond and herb =believed to have hoteffect =restore energy to the mother that is lost duringlabour.
Ramakrishna . J (1992) - consumption of milk, butter ghee isencourged = belief that will increase the quantity andquality of breastmilk. Other hot foods that should beconsumed is dried fish, brinjals, dhal, drumsticks and greens.This foods are considered good for lactation
Garlic is one of the best vegetables to increase milk supply
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