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Serum and Saliva Ig‐levels in Infants of Non‐Atopic Mothers Fed Breast Milk or Cow's Milk‐based Formulas
Author(s) -
ØSTERGAARD P. AA.
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.tb11028.x
Subject(s) - medicine , saliva , breast milk , breast feeding , cow milk , infant formula , food science , physiology , pediatrics , biochemistry , chemistry
. Of twenty‐five healthy, full term infants without a family history of atopic diseases, 13 were exclusively breast‐fed from birth for a minimum of 3½ months (median 4½ months), whereas the remaining 12 infants were fed with cow's milk‐based formulas from birth for a minimum of 4 months. In the latter group of children a significant increase in serum IgE as well as in salivary IgA was found. In infants exclusively breast‐fed, no increase in serum IgE was seen until 6 months of age; at nine months of age, salivary IgA was still significantly lower than in the infants fed cow's milk‐based formulas. No children developed obvious allergic diseases during the first three years of life. Thus, cow's milk proteins given to newborn children of non‐atopic mothers did not seem to increase the risk of IgE‐mediated diseases, maybe due to the development of “blocking” IgA‐antibodies in the alimentary tract.