Participant exclusion criteria
infectious diseases, cancer, infertility, abscess, mastitis, HIV and active pulmonary tuberculosis
INFECTIOUS DISEASES, CANCER, MASTITIS, ABSCESS
Participants smoking, using alcohol, narcotics, neuropsychiatric drugs and/or any drug or herbal combination used to stimulate human milk production (galactagogues), those with infertility, infectious diseases transmitted through human milk feeding (e.g. HIV and active pulmonary tuberculosis), and those with previous breast surgery and/or problems such as abscess, inverted nipple, mastitis, or cancer were excluded from participation.