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According to that article, breast milk does not contain gut flora. It has its own microbiome that is distinct, but has many of the same bacteria.
by Cytobit 6y ago
According to that article, breast milk does not contain gut flora. It has its own microbiome that is distinct, but has many of the same bacteria.
- matthewdgreen 6y agoFrom the Wikipedia article: “Several studies have shown that there is a mother-to-infant transfer of bacterial strains belonging, at least, to the genera Lactobacillus, Staphylococcus, Enterococcus, and Bifidobacterium through breastfeeding, thus accounting for the close relationship of bacterial composition of the gut microbiota of breastfed infants with that found in the breast milk of their respective mothers.”
- jankotek 6y ago》While the origins of the human milk microbiome are not exactly known,[1] several hypotheses for its establishment have been proposed 》Alternatively, bacteria may be translocated to the mammary duct from the maternal gastrointestinal tract via an entero-mammary pathway, facilitated by dendritic cells.