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Must Read-Exposure to mother's vaginal fluids may help restore bacteria of babies born via caesarean
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-02/mums-vaginal-fluid-may-help-restore-bacteria-in-caesarean-babies/7130384<snip>
Bacteria critical to early immunity development in infants may be partially restored in babies born by caesarean section by swabbing them with their mother's birth fluid, a new study suggests.
The small pilot study, published today in Nature Medicine, aimed to address concerns that children born by C-section rather than vaginally have an increased risk of obesity, asthma, allergies and immune deficiencies.
Co-author of the study, Assistant Professor Jose Clemente, from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, said previous studies had found drastic differences in the microbiome in vaginally delivered and C-section infants.
"While the first are enriched in vaginal bacteria from the mum, the latter [those delivered by C-section] completely miss those bacteria," Dr Clemente said.
This was important because the microbiome that colonised the body of newborns helped the baby's immune system learn which were helpful and disease-causing bacteria, he said.
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Kittehs all the way!
