There is no doubt that breast milk is the best food the baby can receive. We know more and more about its components and its health benefits for babies, but it is difficult to get an idea of the effect of this intelligent liquid in the body.
As a picture is worth a thousand words, we want to show you a picture taken in a scientific laboratory that shows six plates with breast milk that are hallucinating everyone. We explain why.
What does the image show?
The one you see above is a photo taken by Vicky Greene, a first-year student of Biosciences at South Devon College, England, for a microbiology research project he is conducting. Shared completely excited The result of your research on your Facebook profile:
What the plates contain are bacteria. The white dots in the center is breast milk. If you see the clear part that has formed around them, it is where the proteins present in breast milk have killed the bacteria.
In Babies and more Do you want to see how breast milk is up close? They have recorded it on video through the microscopeThe samples on the left (BmA) contain milk from a mother who breastfeeds her 15-month-old baby, while the samples on the right (BmB) contain milk from a mother who breastfeeds her 3-year-old baby.
Petri dishes (this is what these discs used in laboratories for growing bacteria are called) contain M.Luteus bacteria, a bacterium that can be found in soil, dust, water and air, forming part of the bacterial microbiota of the Mammalian skin
We read on Wikipedia that, although this genus of bacteria (micrococcus) is rarely related to diseases, could also be an opportunistic pathogen, particularly in patients with immunodeficiency.
The perimeter of the plates is covered with bacteria, but in the center, where discs soaked in breast milk were placed, the bacteria have disappeared forming a protective halo.
In Babies and more An amazing video that shows how the mammary glands work by producing breast milk The student adds that the experiment has also worked with E.coli (Escherichia coli, bacteria that causes mainly gastrointestinal infections, but also in other systems such as urinary, blood, nervous, etc. and it seems that it would also give results with MRSA (MRSA) , a bacterial strain that has become resistant to several antibiotics. It also announces that a couple of weeks will test with colostrum, so we will be attentive to the results.
Natural shield against infections
We could already see it through a microscope. Breast milk is live and intelligent tissue that adapts to the needs of the baby at each stage of development. It is very clear that even in babies who are not newborns, breast milk is still important and that its protective effect against infections that cause diseases It is still present.
