Possibilities of antenatal prevention of food allergy in young children

Content Partner: Directory of Open Access Journals. Objective: to determine the efficiency of antenatal prevention of food allergy in children. A total of 248 mother-child pairs were followed up. According to their maternal feeding pattern during pregnancy, the newborn infants were divided into 3 subgroups. Subgroup 1 consisted of 37 infants whose mothers had ingested a hypoallergenic diet during pregnancy. Subgroup 2 entered 29 babies, whose mothers had adhered to a hypoallergenic diet and received the probiotic Lactobacillus reuteri Protectis in the last stages of gestation. Subgroup 3 comprised 82 infants whose mothers had received a diet with a hypoallergenic substitute of cow’s milk for the New Zealand goat’s milk Amalthea in combination with the probiotic during pregnancy.There were no differences between the neonatal groups in anthropometric indicators. Analysis of intestinal microbiota showed that significantly more children had an increasing amount of Klebsiella, enterococci, Candida albicans, and Staphylococcus aureus in the comparison group (p