Maternal and Other Risk Factors Including Bovine IgG in Developing Infantile Colic

Objective: Infantile colic is one of the most current problems in the first few months of life. It issuggested that organic or psychologic and behavioral factors can predispose to involve thisdisorder. Here, we have studied the role of some maternal risk factors including bovine IgGlevels in breast milk for appearing the colic in young babies.Material Methods: This retrospective study was performed on 50 infants as case group and30 infants aged 3 weeks to 3 months who had normal growth and development as control groupfor one year in Mashad. Data was analyzed with Pearson Chi-Square and Fisher’s exact tests.Findings: Most colicky infants were male (62% vs 38% female). They were mainlysymptomatic at neonatal period. In 64% of cases, it occurred in the first offspring. Infantile colicwas more common in babies who delivered normally than by cesarean section and in mothersaged 20-30 years. According to our finding, there was no relationship between bovine IgG inbreast milk and infantile colic. It revealed that anxious pregnant women had more colickybabies and paternal smoking seemed to develop colic in young infants.Conclusion: In order to reduce the occurrence of colic in infants, primigravid mothers aged 20-30 years should have a stressfree environment especially during pregnancy and no smokingexposure in this period.