Reduced crying in term infants fed high beta-palmitate formula: A double-blind randomized clinical trial

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Litmanovitz, Ita ^a,b   Bar Yoseph, Fabiana ^c   Lifshitz, Yael ^c   Davidson, Keren ^d   Eliakim, Alon ^a,b   Regev, Rivka H ^a,b   Nemet, Dan ^a,b  

^a MEIR MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c Enzymotec Ltd   (Israel)

^d HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Beta palmitate; Breastfeeding; Crying; Infant formula; sn 2 palmitate; Stool characteristics

Indexed keywords

BETA PALMITATE; PALMITIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VEGETABLE OIL;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYING; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FECES; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECORDING; SOFT STOOL; STANDARD; TERM BIRTH; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ADULT; CHEMISTRY; DEFECATION; NEWBORN;

ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CRYING; DEFECATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PALMITATES;

EID: 84902741002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-14-152     Document Type: Article

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