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- Title
Improved general health status in an unselected infant population following an allergen-reduced dietary intervention programme: the ZUFF-STUDY-PROGRAMME. Part II: infant growth and health status to age 6 months. ZUg-FrauenFeld.
- Authors
Exl, B M; Deland, U; Secretin, M C; Preysch, U; Wall, M; Shmerling, D H
- Abstract
An allergen-reduced dietary intervention programme with strict dietary requirements was implemented over the first four months of life in an unselected population-based infant cohort and compared to a non-intervention cohort (the ZUFF study). Recommendations for the dietary programme in the intervention cohort were extended, but not strictly implemented, until the end of month six. The intervention was based on breastfeeding, a moderate whey hydrolysate formula (pHF), and delayed introduction of weaning foods with a high allergenicity. This study was a prospective, controlled, and unblinded study, the first to assess the effects of an allergen-reduced, pHF-based early nutritional programme in a broad unselected infant population. Because overall healthy development of the infant is a major objective of any nutritional programme, the study evaluated the effects of the dietary intervention on infant growth and general health status rather than specific allergic manifestations. Part I of this paper gave results for nutritional behaviour only, and Part II gives results for growth and general health status during the intervention period through the sixth month of life.
- Publication
European journal of nutrition, 2000, Vol 39, Issue 4, p145
- ISSN
1436-6207
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s003940070018