Study on Short Chain Fatty Acids Concentration in Breast Milk and Its Correlation With the Maternal Diet

Federico II University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Short Chain Fatty Acids Concentration in Breast Milk

Treatments: Other: sampling of breast milk, obtaining information about the maternal diet

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02301728

BMB-100

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the acetate, butyrate and propionate concentration in breast milk and to evaluate the possible correlation of these concentrations with maternal diet.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: Female

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• parturients women at term hospitalized in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Pathophysiology of Human Reproduction, "Federico II" University of Naples.

Exclusion criteria

• infections,
• diabetes and other chronic diseases at the level of each organ or system,
• diseases of pregnancy.
• antibiotics, prebiotics, probiotics and synbiotics in the 30 days prior to the first observation.