Immune for newborn Caesarean is encouraged by concocting the mother’s feces

TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Newborn baby from the caesarean delivery process, a small amount of the mother’s feces or feces should be given, mixed in breast milk, to help boost the body’s immune system. This recommendation comes from the results of a study published by a research team in Finland in the Cell Journal.

So far, it is known that newborns who are not from their mother’s vagina have a smaller number of micro-biota such as bacteria. In her then will develop a higher risk of asthma and allergies compared to those born through normal delivery.

Scientists say the difference could be because babies born by caesarean section are not exposed to the microbiota in their mother’s vagina and perineum (the area of ​​skin between the vaginal canal and anus) during labor. It is thought to have a negative effect on how their body’s immune system develops later.

The problem or risk is trying to be overcome through several studies that rubbed the skin of newborns with their mother’s vaginal fluids. However, this latest study in Finland offers a more drastic way of exposing a newborn to caesarean section to its mother’s microbiota, namely giving the mother a small amount of feces as the baby’s first intake.

The assumption is that by dissolving a small portion of the mother’s excretion in breast milk and giving it to the newborn by caesarean section, it can help the baby’s immune system develop like a baby born through normal delivery.

Three months from the study, the results showed that in newborns, a microbial woke was made of cesarean that looked more like babies born after normal delivery through their mother’s vagina. In babies born by Caesarean who taste the mother’s feces, the microbial is different from other cesarean babies.

A member of the research team from the study, Sture Andersson of the Center for Pediatric Research at the University of Helsinki, Finland, says that, from a clinical point of view, a process called microbial material transfer occurs when the baby ‘breaks’ into the mother’s vagina. “This process is a gift from a mother to her baby,” he said.

It is a gift because when a new baby is born, his immune system has not yet developed. The immune system will learn and develop to mature by responding to microbial exposure.

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Although the microbiota of each person is very unique, in general, it can be distinguished between the types of bacteria that live in the gastrointestinal tract in normal-born babies and those who pass cesarean section. That difference appears to make a difference in how the immune system learns to respond to external stimulants, “including to potential allergens,” the researchers said.

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