Abstract:
Disclosed are methods of reducing the incidence and/or risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in an infant, toddler, or child using nutritional compositions including extracted genomic bacterial DNA. The nutritional compositions including the extracted genomic DNA are further effective in reducing inflammation.
Abstract:
A nutritional composition comprises fucosylated human milk oligosaccharide and/or sialylated human milk oligosaccharide, non-digestible, fermentable polysaccharide, and Bifidobacterium. The nutritional composition is free of short-chain fructooligosaccharide having at least about 50% of molecules with a degree of polymerization of less than about 5. A method of treating a subject at risk of developing a Clostridium difficile infection or a subject having a Clostridium difficile infection comprises administering such a nutritional composition.