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Dietary Bovine β Mactoglobulin is Transferred to Human Milk
Author(s) -
JAKOBSSON IRENE,
LINDBERG TOR,
BENEDIKTSSON BIRGITTA,
HANSSON BENGTGÖRAN
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
acta pædiatrica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.772
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1651-2227
pISSN - 0803-5253
DOI - 10.1111/j.1651-2227.1985.tb10981.x
Subject(s) - medicine , bovine milk , zoology , cow milk , infant formula , food science , pediatrics , biology
. Human milk from 38 mothers was analysed by radioimmunological method for content of bovine (5‐Iactoglobulin. Detectable amounts (5‐33 μg/1) of immunoactive β‐lactoglobulin were found in 18 human milk samples. Milk from 3 mothers, whose infants suffered from infantile colic contained high amounts of fi‐lactoglobulin (32, 18 and 14 μg/1 respectively). With the mothers on a cow's milk free diet the contents fell to non‐detectable amounts in two mothers and to 6 μg/1 in the third. All three infants became free from colic,