Nutritional compositions, supplements, and fortifiers
AssigneeSociete des Produits Nestle S.A.
InventorsCheong Kwet Choy (William) KWONG CHUNG, Shreeram SATHYAVAGEESWARAN, Carla DELANNOY, Guénolée Eliane Marie PRIOULT, Maureen HUHMANN, Anupama DATTATREYA, Priya KARKERA, Shilpa WADWHA
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a nutritional composition, supplement, or fortifier comprising L-arginine, L-citrulline, a vitamin mixture, and a mineral mixture. The present invention also relates to methods of enhancing immune responses, treating, preventing, and/or reducing the occurrence of infection, and reducing the occurrence or reoccurrence of one or more symptoms of infection, in particular in subjects with tuberculosis.
Claims16
A nutritional composition, supplement, or fortifier comprising L-arginine, L-citrulline, a vitamin mixture, and a mineral mixture.
A method of dietary management of a subject with an infection and/or having an immunodeficiency;
- enhancing an immune response;
- treating, preventing, and/or reducing a risk of occurrence or re-occurrence of an infection;
- adjunctive therapy in combination with an antimicrobial therapy;
- treating, preventing, and/or reducing a risk of occurrence of one or more symptoms of infection, wherein the symptoms of infection are selected from the group consisting of (i) positive sputum culture, (ii) cough, (iii) chest pain, (iv) fever, (v) night sweating, (vi) haemoptysis, (vii) dyspnea and (viii) GI symptoms of diarrhea or constipation;
- and/or treating, preventing, and/or reducing a risk of occurrence or reoccurrence of tuberculosis (TB) in a subject, the method comprising administering a nutritional composition, supplement, or fortifier to the subject, wherein the nutritional composition, supplement, or fortifier comprises L-arginine, L-citrulline, a vitamin mixture, and a mineral mixture.
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A method of enhancing an immune response in a subject, the method comprising administering a combination of L-arginine and L-citrulline to the subject.
A method of treating, preventing, and/or reducing a risk of occurrence or reoccurrence of an infection in a subject, the method comprising administering a combination of L-arginine and L-citrulline to the subject.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.