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Breast milk ward off bacterial infections in babies, study

Breast milk ward off bacterial infections in babies, study

Protective sugars found in breast milk can help protect babies against bacterial infections, researchers have found.

Group B strep bacteria, whose common host are pregnant women, remain the leading cause of severe infections in newborns worldwide, which often leads to sepsis or pneumonia, and in severe cases death, because they do not have fully developed defence mechanisms.

The study showed that sugars can act as anti-biofilm agents, which is the first example of carbohydrates in human milk having this function. "This is the first example of generalised, antimicrobial activity on the part of the carbohydrates in human milk," said Steven Townsend, assistant professor at the Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, US. "One of the remarkable properties of these compounds is that they are clearly non-toxic, unlike most antibiotics," Townsend added. Read More...

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