A few hundred years ago the impossibility of breastfeeding really posed a mortal threat to the newborn. About a century and a half ago, the first prototypes of mixtures appeared, the so-called “milk flour” intended for babies. It was a rough, hard-to-digest product, often providing only survival, but not the development of a child. Equally doubtful were milk formulas produced over the past 30–40 years. Their basis was cow's milk, which in a number of indicators (for example, in the level of protein) is very different from women's milk. Accordingly, for the body of the newborn, it could not be an adequate substitute. This statement is confirmed by the fact that doctors even discovered a special phenomenon - “metabolic programming”. Its meaning is that many diseases in adults clearly depend on the quality of nutrition in the first year of life.
But life and science do not stand still.In recent years, complex studies have been carried out, which have allowed a thorough study of the composition and properties of breast milk, as well as to develop ways to create its full-fledged substitutes. First of all, mixtures with prebiotics are among them. They are considered to be an adequate substitute for natural feeding. Today, science has something to brag about.
Prebiotics are special components of food.They are not digested in the small intestine, their action is directed to the thick microflora. They stimulate its growth and increase its biological activity. It provides the physiological interaction between the environment, the incoming food and the human body. All the underlying mechanisms of its role have not yet been fully studied. But it is absolutely clear that full-fledged microflora is the path to human health.
Prebiotics are a fairly significant list.a variety of substances (sugars, fibers, amino acids, enzymes, antioxidants and even alcohols). There are more than 1000 known varieties of them. Together they have the so-called "systemic effect" on the microflora of the gastrointestinal tract. With a normal pregnancy in a woman, a child is born with a sterile intestine. In the first minutes of life, the natural bacterial colonization of the organism begins. Initially, intestinal microflora when breastfeeding and artificial feeding varies greatly. Therefore, the most important task is the correction of its composition. And prebiotics - these are the substances that ensure the growth in the intestines of the natural microflora for humans. And this is very important for a small, but rapidly growing organism.
Children's prebiotics produces many firms, butone of the leading is the company "Bellakt". It presents an extensive list of formula for artificial feeding. A mixture of prebiotics "Bellakt" also contains probiotics, and also polyunsaturated fatty acids, protein in the optimal content (14-15 g per liter) and a balanced complex of vitamins and minerals (including iodine, selenium and iron). The important point is the optimal combination of quality and affordability of such products.
Современные смеси с пребиотиками – это high-tech safe and healthy products. They are perfectly balanced; fat, protein and carbohydrates are indistinguishable from breast milk. Therefore, they are suitable for its replacement, of course, if the situation with natural feeding is impossible.
And prebiotics are a pledge of the physiological nature of artificial feeding.
