文本框: A STUDY ON IRON-FORTIFIED FORMULA PREVENTING INFANT ANEMIA Wang Guixiang Children's Hospital, Capital Institute Of Pediatrics, Beijing, China Objective: To find out effects of iron-fortified formula to preventing infant anemia. Methods: Randomly assign to 3 groups based on infants feeding by mother's breast, pure milk and iron-fortified formula, to observe 146 infants growth from 0 to 6 month-old in Community Health Care and Child Health Care Clinic, measured their weight monthly and made the curves of infant weight growth. When they were 6 month-old use their left hand finger blood to test haemoglobin (Hb), mean corpuscular volume (MCV), mean corpuscular haemoglobin (MCH), mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC) by F800 automatic blood-globs analyzer made in Japan to find the incidence of iron deficiency anemia. Results: Clinic finding shows that there are no evident differences (P>0.05) in the curve of infant weight growth among infants who have mother's breast, pure milk or iron-fortified formula; but the incidence of iron deficiency anemia of infants who having iron-fortified formula is much lower than that of infants having pure milk (P<0.01). Conclusion: Besides rich iron element, there are a lot of other nutrients inside iron-fortified formula. Therefore, it is strongly recommend that 0-6 month-old infants who cannot having mother's breast or who are easy to lead to iron deficiency anemia should be fed by iron-fortified formula but not pure milk. 0958