IMPROVEMENT OF INDICATORS OF THE TROPHOLOGICAL STATUS AND QUALITY OF LIFE IN INFANTS ON THE BACKGROUND OF USING PROBIOTIC STRAINS OF ENTEROCOCCI IN NUTRITION
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Th e article presents the results of a study on the eff ectiveness of using in the diet of infants of liquidform
probiotic Enterococcus faecium L3 at improving trophological status and quality of life. In specialized
(psychoneurological) children’s home within ten weeks during the autumn and winter period we observed 26 children aged from 2 till 12 months which were randomly divided into two groups: main group (n = 15) and group of comparison (n = 11). Observed groups did not verifi ably diff er on sexual structure (p = 0,62) and values of indicators of the trophological status: body weight, Chulitskaya’s index, body weight index. Average age of children of the main group was 4,3 ± 0,4 months, groups of comparison — 6,4 ± 0,18 months (p = 0,02). Children of the main group as addition to food daily within ten weeks received the liquid probiotic form E. faecium L3 with a caption not less than 108 CFU/ml, in a dose on 5 ml 2 times a day. Children of group of comparison received the usual food allowance corresponding to age. Estimated indicators of the trophological status every two weeks; change of indicators of quality of life on QUALIN questionnaire; indicators of incidence of the sharp respiratory infections; activity of realization of planned vaccination in groups. Th e obtained data at children of the main group allowed to establish acceleration of growth rates in the fi rst four weeks of supervision, and also acceleration of rates of elimination of insuffi ciency of food according to an assessment of an index of Chulitskaya in the fi rst eight weeks of supervision. In children of the main group the tendency to decrease in incidence of sharp respiratory infections and improvement of indicators of quality of life and realization of planned vaccination is noted. Refs 14. Figs 3. Таbles 2.
Keywords:
infants, trophological status, quality of life, probiotic strain of Enterococcus, incidence, sharp respiratory infections, and planned vaccination
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