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Nutrition, Food Science and Technology
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Journal of Food Technology and Preservation | Volume 3
What are Human Milk Oligosaccharides (HMOs) and why are they so important?
Virginie Rigourd
Human Milk Bank, France
B
reast feeding (BF) is the more ecologic and economic mode
of nourishing for the newborn and the infant, it provides
ideal nutriment until 6 months and must be promote until
24 months. BF promote growth and neurologic development
and protect infant against infection disease. Between the
different factors implicated, more than 200 oligosaccharides
are synthesized in the mammary gland, second constituent
of human milk (HM), have a central place. Concentration in
HM is higher in the early stage of lactation and varied with
mothers and environment characteristics, HMOs resist to
hard conditions (pasteurization, freezer). Numerous studies
have demonstrated beneficial effects of HMOs, including
modification of the intestinal microbiota, anti-adhesives
antimicrobial effects, modulation of intestinal cell response,
effects immune development and on brain development. Thus,
HMOs participate at infectious disease prevention, anti-allergic
properties, neurologic development, for more immature
newborn it prevents enterocolitis, and have later actions
like prevention of obesity but also mastitis for the mother.
Speaker Biography
Virginie Rigourd is the managing director of the Human Milk Bank of Ile de France. She
has graduated from the Medicine University in Paris, France in 1998 and finished post
graduate training in 2003 from the same university on intra uterin growth retardation
topics. She worked as paediatrician ahead of Ile de France Milk Bank, Paris, France
and neonatalogiste in NICU at Necker Hospital, Paris, France. Member of the French
Milk Bank Association and European Milk Bank Association. Since 2002 she worked as
a national consultant, providing assessments of human milk security and on projects
on human milk quality. Dr. Rigourd has carried out few researches on medication and
breast feeding. During her work she has gained local and national recognition for
her different advice on breast feeding and on practice around human milk in NICIU.
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virginie.rigourd@nck.aphp.frVirginie Rigourd
, J Food Technol Pres, Volume 3
DOI: 10.4066/2591-796X-C1-005