 While the story of the impact of vitamin A supplementation in children 6 months and older is clear, such is not the case for younger infants. Traditionally, it has been thought that the full-time breast feeding practices associated with early infancy protected the infant from becoming vitamin A deficient. It was not until the onset of weaning or the misuse of bottle-feeding that clinical signs of xerophthalmia appeared 1. Recent evidence from a variety of locations suggests that these traditional assumptions about the adequacy of breast -feeding in assuring adequate vitamin A nutriture are suspect and likely unfounded. It is well known that infants are born with very low body stores of vitamin A and they depend on regular breast feeding or other sources to build body stores 13, 14. Therefore, if the mothers breast milk has a lower than normal concentration of vitamin A, the infant will not be able to meet daily requirements and increase body reserves. It has become clear that many women in developing countries have poor vitamin A status themselves and that their breast milk concentrations may be only half that found among women with adequate vitamin A status 15. In addition, it has been shown in Indonesia that supplementation of women post-partum can improve the vitamin A concentration in their blood and breast milk 16. 