Compositions for use in the prevention or treatment of otitis or bronchitis in infants or young children
AssigneeSociete des Produits Nestle S.A.
InventorsNorbert Sprenger, Dominique Brassart, Delphine Egli
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a nutritional composition comprising at least one fucosylated oligosaccharide and at least one N-acetylated oligosaccharide in particular amounts, for use in preventing and/or treating infections and/or inflammations of the lower respiratory tract and/or of the ear in an infant or a young child.
Claims7
A method for reducing an incidence and/or severity of and/or treating an infection and/or inflammation of the lower respiratory tract and/or of the ear selected from the group consisting of pneumonia, bronchitis, bronchiolitis, otitis, otitis media and combinations thereof in an infant or a young child in need thereof, the method comprising administering to the infant or young child a nutritional composition comprising 2′-fucosyllactose (2′FL) as the only fucosylated oligosaccharide in the nutritional composition in a total amount of 0.85-1.3 g/L of the nutritional composition and/or in a total amount of 0.59-0.9 g/100 g of the nutritional composition on a dry weight basis;
- and lacto-N-neotetraose (LNnT) as the only N-acetylated oligosaccharide in the nutritional composition in a total amount of 0.45-0.75 g/L of the composition and/or in a total amount of 0.35-0.52 g/100 g of the nutritional composition on a dry weight basis, wherein the nutritional composition does not contain any sialylated oligosaccharide.
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