The effect of milk products consumption during breast feed on the maternal milk components
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Keywords
Milk, Human, Infant Newborn, Colic, Electrophoresis, Proteins, Dairy Products
Abstract
Background: several studies indicate that milk products consumption by mothers during the nursing period induce colic in the newborns which has led to some pediatricians to recommend the interruption of milk consumption during this period. Objective: to analyze maternal milk composition of Mexican women according to milk products consumption.
Methods: seven women were studied in puerperal period, three of them consumed milky products and four not. All were healthy; they gave a five cc milk sample, which was frozen until the moment of the analysis. A double dimension electrophoresis in polyacrilamide gels was carried out. The protein levels were determined by Lowry’s method. Total lipid extraction and cromatography in thin plaque was carried out. Total carbohydrate content was quantified.
Results: no differences were found in protein electrophoresis neither in the chromatographic lipid analysis. Carbohydrate content was similar in both groups.
Conclusions: colic in newborn depends on the idiosyncrasy of each one, and not in the supposed induced modifications of milk products consumption on maternal milk.
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