Sentences with phrase «maternal intake»

Breast milk provides all the nutrients baby needs, although modern breast milk is low in vitamin K, and newborn vitamin K deficiency can be a result of insufficient maternal intake.

Although the authors could not draw firm conclusions due to the heterogeneity of the studies and their results, they concluded that the overall findings were «suggestive» of a protective association between higher maternal intakes of LC omega - 3s or fish and incidence of allergic disease symptoms in the offspring.

These and other food allergens implicated in atopic disease, such as egg and peanut, can be detected in human breast milk 4 hours after maternal intake and remain in the milk for several days (20).

A research group at the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine has been using a rat model to see how maternal intake of above - requirement vitamins (A, D, E, and K) impact offspring's brain development and behaviour.

There are actually studies that show maternal intake of essential fatty acids is inversely associated with risk for childhood eczema.

In this population - based birth cohort study, we found that a higher maternal intake of free sugar during pregnancy was associated with an increased risk of atopy and atopic asthma in the offspring, independently of sugar intake in early childhood.

K2: Modern breast milk is low in vitamin K, and newborn vitamin K deficiency is likely the result of insufficient maternal intake in the 3rd trimester.

Numerous studies have found a link between maternal intake of DHA (through diet and supplements) and increased DHA levels in breast milk.

One study (Maternal Intake of Cruciferous Vegetables and Other Foods and Colic Symptoms in Exclusively Breast - Fed Infants; Journal of the American Dietetic Association Volume 96, January 1996) found a correlation between infant colic and maternal intake of gassy vegetables, cow's milk, onions and chocolate.

A 2004 study [Hollis & Wagner 2004] determined that supplementing the mother with 2000 - 4000 IU vitamin D per day safely increased mother's and baby's vitamin D status: the 2000 IU / d dose resulted in a limited improvement, and «A maternal intake of 4000 IU / d could achieve substantial progress toward improving both maternal and neonatal nutritional vitamin D status.»

This study used proxy measures for prenatal (maternal intake of oily fish) and postnatal (breast - or bottle feeding) DHA availability because, for most of the children, insufficient data were available for comparison of maternal DHA concentrations in pregnancy, or DHA concentrations in the infant, directly with the child's stereoacuity.

DHA can be delivered to the fetus by increasing maternal intake during pregnancy and to the breast - fed infant by increasing maternal intake during lactation, which increases DHA in mothers» milk.»

After accounting for all other variables that could be playing a part in the health status of the children, the results showed an association between maternal intake of sugar and atopy and asthma in their offspring.