[Nutritional considerations on milk formulae following breast feeding]

The Author, considering that many babies in the town of Palermo are "weaned" with partially skimmed milk since their 3rd month of life, takes into consideration the type of milk the baby has to be fed with in substitution of the starting formula. Since the woman's milk is sufficient to cover the baby's need up to the 6th month of his life, the various industrial cow milks (pasteurized, homogenized, skimmed) are confronted with the new powder milks called "follow up formula". In the whole what results is a clear superiority of the latter. They are, no doubt, more useful to the baby's alimentary needs starting from the 4th month of his life.