Reduction of gastrointestinal disease-producing organisms with sialic acid and gangliosides
OwnerAnna C. Ettingerinventor
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Abstract
The present invention discloses mother's milk substitutes containing sialic acid or a ganglioside that reduce the number of gastrointestinal disease-producing organisms in a young mammal's food and gastrointestinal tract. The invention also discloses dietary supplements and methods for reducing the number of gastrointestinal disease-producing organisms.
Claims13
An improved food for young mammals comprising a mother's milk substitute in the form of an animal feed or infant formula having N-acetylneuraminic acid or a ganglioside present at about 0.005 to about 0.1 percent of the total weight of the improved food.
A dietary supplement comprising a unit dose of N-acetylneuramine acid or a ganglioside present in an effective amount in a physiologically tolerable excipient.
A method for reducing the number of gastrointestinal disease-producing organisms comprising substantially homogeneously admixing about 0.005 to about 0.1 percent of the total food weight of N-actylneuraminic acid or a ganglioside to a young mammal's food.
A method for conferring antimicrobial activity on a mother's milk substitute in the form of animal feed or infant formula comprising substantially homogeneously admixing N-acetylneuraminic acid or a ganglioside to said mother's milk substitute in an amount of about 0.005 to about 0.1 percent of the total weight of the milk substitute.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.