THE ESSENTIAL
- Consuming cow’s milk is not a general cure for food allergies.
- The milk consumed by the mother acts as a boost for the infant’s immune system.
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Breast milk is the source of optimal nutrition for newborns. In particular, it contains certain lipids which play an important role in early childhood weight. A new study, conducted by Swedish researchers and published on November 28 in the journal Nutrientssuggests that women who drink milk while breastfeeding have children who are less prone to allergies.
Not a general remedy
Researchers at Chalmers University in Gothenburg recorded the eating habits of 500 Swedish mothers who gave birth between 2015 and 2018. These data were collected at the 34th week of pregnancy, one month after birth and four months after birth. the birth. The researchers also looked for biomarkers specific to dairy products through blood tests and by analyzing their breast milk. As they were blowing out their first candle, doctors looked the children for possible cases of food allergy, eczema and asthma.
“Mothers of healthy one-year-olds consumed more cow’s milk while breastfeeding than mothers of allergic one-year-olds, observed Mia Stråvik, a nutritional scientist and co-author of the study, in a press release published on the university’s website. While the association is clear, we are not claiming that consuming cow’s milk is a general cure for food allergies..”
A “whiplash”For the child’s immune system
Researchers suggest that the beneficial effect of consuming milk for the nursing mother is found in the link between substances in breast milk and the mother’s diet. In a study published on December 16 in the journal Scientific Reports, American researchers have confirmed this link. The researchers provided nursing mothers with a special nutritional diet for 30 to 70 hours. After a two-week washout period, the same woman ate a different diet also provided by the researchers. The diet shaped the profile of breast milk oligosaccharides, a type of complex carbohydrate found in breast milk. Altering oligosaccharides in turn alters the functional abilities of the milk microbiome which influences lifelong metabolic health.
Drinking milk while breastfeeding would help strengthen the child’s immune system according to the present study. “During the early development of a child, there is a window of time where stimulation of the immune system is necessary for the child to develop tolerance to different foods., wrote the researchers. Contact at this precise moment with various substances can function as a kind of ‘whiplash” for the child’s immune system.”
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