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US 8,715,769 B2Granted
Preventing diseases in infants delivered via caesarean section
AssigneeN.V. Nutricia
InventorsJoachim Schmitt, Bernd Stahl, Jan Knol
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Abstract
The present invention provides the use of a composition comprising non-digestible oligosaccharide for the manufacture of a composition for enteral administration to an infant delivered via caesarean section.
Claims6
A method for treating and/or preventing atopic dermatitis in an infant delivered by caesarean section, the method comprising feeding the infant a composition comprising:
- (a) intact and/or hydrolyzed protein and (b) 0.5 to 75 g of a non-digestible neutral oligosaccharide per 100 g dry weight of the composition, wherein the non-digestible neutral oligosaccharide consists of galacto-oligosaccharides, and, optionally, non-digestible dextrins, xylo-oligosaccharides, arabino-oligosaccharides, gluco-oligosaccharides, chito-oligosaccharides, fuco-oligosaccharides, manno-oligosaccharides, isomalto-oligosaccharides, fructo-oligosaccharides, arabinogalacto-oligosaccharides, glucomanno-oligosaccharides and/or galactomanno-oligosaccharides,
- wherein (i) at least 50% of the saccharide units of the galacto-oligosaccharide are galactose units,
- thereby treating and/or preventing atopic dermatitis.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.