Breast Milk, Composition, Microbiome Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Influence of Mother Nutrition on the Composition of Fatty Acid, Oligosacharides and Its Effect on Breast Milk Microbiome
The research subject
Health organizations around the world have determined that breastfeeding is the most
critical source of nutrition for newborns in the first weeks and months of their lives. A
mother's breast milk contains unique nutritious components and other nonnutritive elements
that help promote healthy baby growth and development (1, 2). Recent studies show that a
mother's breast milk contains components that vary from each specimen. There are great
evidences that maternal and environmental factors have a strong influence on the composition
of breast milk. Fatty acids, the second most common component found in breast milk, show
extreme sensitivity to maternal nutrition (3, 4).
Latest studies show that breast milk also contains bacterial communities that may have
health implications of newborn. The structure of these bacterial communities also varied
greatly between subjects (5) .
In the research, we propose to investigate the connection between maternal nutrition,
different fatty acids and their role in the growth and development of bacterial populations
existing in breast milk.
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Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Prospective