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Donkey milk production: State of the art
- Source :
- Scopus-Elsevier, Italian Journal of Animal Science, Vol 8, Iss 2s, Pp 677-683 (2010)
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Abstract
- Milk is one of the most common causes of food allergies among children under one year of age. No specific therapy exists for this allergy, and thus the only feasible response is to avoid assumption of milk and derived products. Studies conducted on the serum of children with hypersensi- tivity to milk have shown that caseins are the proteins with the greater allergenic potential. However, in some cases, children have also shown hypersensitivity to the β-lactoglobulines and to the α-lactal- bumins. When food intolerance is diagnosed in an infant, it is often necessary to impose a period of total parenteral feeding, followed by breast feeding, considered the most correct method of re-feeding. When human milk can not be given, alternative food sources must be sought. Clinical studies have demonstrated that donkey milk could substitute breast feeding in infants affected by severe Ig-E me- diated milk allergies. In these subjects, donkey milk is not only useful, but also safer than other types of milk. In fact donkey milk composition in lipids (high levels of linoleic and linolenic acid) and pro- teins (low caseins content) is very close to human milk. Lysozyme content in donkey milk resulted to be very high (mean value 1.0 mg/ml) if compared to bovine (traces), caprine (traces) and human milk. The high lysozyme content of donkey milk may be responsible of the low bacterial count reported in literature and also makes this milk suitable to prevent intestine infections to infants. Among seropro- teins, β-lactoglobulin and α-lactalbumin content in donkey milk was respectively 3.75 and 1.80 mg/ml and remained substancially the same during the different stages of lactation.
- Subjects :
- Allergy
040301 veterinary sciences
0403 veterinary science
chemistry.chemical_compound
fluids and secretions
Lactation
Medicine
Food science
Beta-lactoglobulin
lcsh:SF1-1100
biology
business.industry
0402 animal and dairy science
food and beverages
04 agricultural and veterinary sciences
medicine.disease
040201 dairy & animal science
Food intolerance
medicine.anatomical_structure
chemistry
biology.protein
Animal Science and Zoology
Donkey
Mare milk
lcsh:Animal culture
Lysozyme
business
Breast feeding
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- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Scopus-Elsevier, Italian Journal of Animal Science, Vol 8, Iss 2s, Pp 677-683 (2010)
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....357e8f7c2f13f3da09c04e2146c0aa56