Abstract:
:To test the hypothesis that cow's milk formula and weaning diet may damage the gut mucosa, the gastrointestinal permeability of 77 healthy English and Gambian infants was measured from the urinary recovery of the markers lactulose and mannitol included in feeds. All infants were born at term and studied at 6, 12 and 18 weeks of age. No infant developed diarrhoea or failed to thrive. Infants fed on cow's milk formula had higher urinary lactulose: mannitol excretion ratios than breast-fed infants at 6 weeks of life (P less than 0.05). There was no significant difference in the urinary marker excretion ratios of English formula-fed and Gambian breast-fed infants at 12 weeks. An increase in urinary lactulose: mannitol excretion ratios was seen in all infants at 18 weeks. This was more probably due to increasing age than to the introduction of weaning diet. Cow's milk formula feeding was associated with greater intestinal permeability than breast feeding in infants aged 6 weeks. The introduction of weaning diet after 6 weeks did not appear to have an impact on the gastrointestinal permeability of healthy growing infants born in either England or rural Gambia.
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Trans R Soc Trop Med Hygauthors
Weaver LTdoi
10.1016/0035-9203(88)90236-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1988-01-01 00:00:00pages
784-9issue
5eissn
0035-9203issn
1878-3503journal_volume
82pub_type
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更新日期:1993-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1982-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1980-01-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1997-09-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2006-07-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1984-01-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2002-05-01 00:00:00