Healthy parturient mothers
Conditions
Interventions
None listed
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Italian women aged between 25 and 40; 2. Given birth to term born babies; 3. Written informed consent; 4. Willingness and capability to comply with protocol requirements and procedures.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Alcohol abuse; 2. Underlying disease requiring medical intervention; 3. History of blood transfusion; 4. Use of drugs or pharmacologically active substances; 5. Presence of acute infection disease or neoplastic disease or any kind of weakening and debilitating conditions; 6. Mastitis, fungal infections of the nipple or areola; 7. Reactivation of herpex simplex (HSV) or varicella zoster infections in the mammary or thoracic region; 8. Presence of endocrinologic diseases, particularly diabetes mellitus; 9. Presence of metabolic diseases, particularly obesity; 10. Presence of chronic diseases: renal, cardiovascular, hypertension; 11. Elimination diet due to chronic allergic diseases or vegan; 12. Presence of one of the following autoimmune diseases: systemic lupus eritematosus, systemic scleroderma, colitis ulcerosa, Crohn’s disease, celiac disease; 13. Participation in other clinical studies; 14. Women whose health condition, according to the investigator’s judgment, could compromise the participation in the study.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Mothers' Diet Index; 2. Mother's anthropometry; 3. Mother's (non)-smoking status; 4. Mother's level of physical activity. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Milk composition parameters. | — |
Contacts
Danone Research - Centre for Specialised Nutrition Human Milk Research, Baby Nutrition Division Milupa GmbH, Bahnstrasse 14-30