World First: Breast milk probiotics launched in Australia

Dec 7
08:24

2012

helen neory hamamoto

helen neory hamamoto

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Breast milk probiotics launched in Australia

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Spanish supplier Biosearch Life is finding success with its patented,World First: Breast milk probiotics launched in Australia Articles immune system-boosting and mastitis battling probiotic isolated from human breast milk in a world-first product launched in Australia this year.Australian firm Puremedic is employing Biosearch Life's Hereditum Lactobacillus Fermentum Lc40 strain in its sachet supplement called Qiara that is aimed at pregnant and breastfeeding mothers.Studies have shown that boosting the presence of strain in forms such as the once-a-day sachet can boost the immune system if both the mother and infant.After birth, it can prolong breastfeeding by reducing the incident of mastitis - the often painful breast infection and inflammation that afflicts 15-30% of breastfeeding women.The World Health Organization ranks mastitis as the number one reason mother's cease breast feeding.Qiara is approved by the Australian Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) and is being endorsed by some medical professionals as an alternative to antibiotics that have proven ineffective in many instances due to multi-drug resistance in breastfeeding women.Qiara is also being sold through pharmacies and online. - By Shane Starling