Pediatrics
Used safely, donor breast milk can help preemie babies
(HealthDay)—Tiny preemies can benefit from donated breast milk—if it's given in the hospital with proper safety measures, a leading pediatricians' group says.
Dec 19, 2016
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Pediatrics
Food research prevents illness in infants
Associate Professor Dereck Chatterton at the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen has spent more than 15 years carrying out research in order to improve infant formula for children who cannot be breastfed. ...
Nov 22, 2016
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Pediatrics
Evidence: Mother's milk best for preemies
Despite several years of research providing the medical and economic evidence that feeding a mother's own milk to very low birth weight infants improves clinical and financial outcomes, multiple barriers to mothers' providing ...
Nov 7, 2016
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Breast milk sugar may protect babies against deadly infection
A type of sugar found naturally in some women's breast milk may protect new born babies from infection with a potentially life threatening bacterium called Group B streptococcus, according to a new study from Imperial College ...
Aug 26, 2016
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Maternal microbial inheritance—benefits of breastfeeding
The theme of World Breastfeeding Week 2016 is Breastfeeding: A key to sustainable development. The core message of this year's World Breastfeeding Week is to "learn to value our wellbeing from the beginning of life, and to ...
Aug 4, 2016
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Garlic aroma found in breast milk
Food chemists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have found that garlic aroma is evident in the breast milk of women who have consumed garlic. This is caused by allyl methyl sulfide (AMS) - a metabolite ...
Jul 15, 2016
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Breast milk sugars promote healthy infant growth through gut microbiome
Bacteria that live in the gut interact with dietary components to affect health and wellness. In a study published February 18 in Cell, a team led by Jeffrey Gordon at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis ...
Feb 18, 2016
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Novel combination of ingredients may offer greater support for infant brain development
Research has shown that nutrition plays an important role in the rapid structural development of the brain during the first few months of life. Scientists at the University of Illinois interested in this connection have studied ...
Feb 18, 2016
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Pediatrics
Study looks at association of infant gut microbiome, delivery mode and feeding
The composition of the gut microbiome in infants at six weeks of age appears to be associated with the delivery method by which they were born and how they were fed, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.
Jan 11, 2016
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Breast-feeding linked to reduced risk of preemie eye problem
(HealthDay)—Breast-feeding a premature infant may help reduce the risk of a serious eye problem known as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), new research suggests.
Nov 16, 2015
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