Antibiotics affect breast milk microbiota in mothers of preterm infants: University of Toronto study

(University of Toronto) A team led by researchers at the University of Toronto and The Hospital for Sick Children has found that mothers of preterm babies have highly individual breast milk microbiomes, and that even short courses of antibiotics have prolonged effects on the diversity and abundance of microbes in their milk.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news