Dietary Bovine β Mactoglobulin is Transferred to Human Milk

Abstract
Human milk from 38 mothers was analyzed by radioimmunological method for content of bovine .beta.-lactoglobulin. Detectable amounts (5-33 .mu.g/l) of immunoactive .beta.-lactoglobulin were found in 18 human samples. Milk from 3 mothers, whose infants suffered from infantile colic contained high amounts of .beta.-lactoglobulin (32, 18 and 14 .mu.g/l, respectively). With the mothers on a cow''s milk free diet the contents fell to non-detectable amounts in 2 mothers and to 6 .mu.g/l in the 3rd. All 3 infants became free from colic.

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