“We are excited to find out that bacteria can actually travel from
the mother’s gut to her Bosom milk. A healthy community of
bacteria in the gut of both mother and baby is really important for
baby’s gut health and immune system development.”
-Said Professor Lacroix
Scientists have discovered that important ‘good’ bacteria arrive
in babies’ digestive systems from mother’s gut via Bosom
milk. Although this does confirm that when it comes to early
establishment of gut and immune health, ‘Bosom is best’, a
greater understanding of how babies acquire a population of good
bacteria can also help to develop formula milk that more closely
mimics nature.
The study, published in Environmental Microbiology, which is a
journal of the Society for Applied Microbiology (SfAM), was led by
Professor Christophe Lacroix at the Institute for Food, Nutrition and
Health, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland.
The Zurich team found the same strains of Bifidobacterium breve
and several types of Clostridium bacteria, which are important for
colonic health, in Bosom milk, and maternal and/or neonatal faeces.
Strains found in Bosom milk may be involved in establishing a
critical nutritional balance in the baby’s gut and may be
important to prevent intestinal disorders.
Professor Lacroix continued “We’re not sure of the route the
bacteria take from gut to Bosom milk but, we have used culture,
isolation, sequencing and fingerprinting methods to confirm that
they are definitely the same strains.”
Future research will hopefully complete the picture of how bacteria
are transferred from mother to neonate. With a more thorough
knowledge, we can decide which bacterial species will be most
important as probiotics in formula. But until then, for neonates at
least, the old adage is true, Bosom is best.
Source: Science Daily
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