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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 28, 2003
Filed:
Dec. 13, 2000
Sharon Gohman, New Brighton, MN (US);
Carol Jo Lowry, Minneapolis, MN (US);
Novartis Nutrition AG, Berne, CH;
Abstract
A fat-rich powder provides the complete nutritional needs of an at-risk infant no more than one year old, who has acquired a milk allergy, such as cow's milk allergy (“CMA”), and/or an allergy to protein in “soy milk”, as well as digestive or absorption problems resulting in a damaged gut. Because such an infant must derive all its protein from amino acids it is not fed any ingredient derived from mammalian milk, but a combination of amino acids with nucleotides in specified amounts along with free L-glutamine, maintaining specified ratios of their relative amounts, which ratios in the ranges stated are found to be beneficial for healing of the infant's damaged gut, and for promoting cell division to assure its normal growth. A typical feeding of 32.6 gm of the powder delivers 160 cals; the powder, including triglycerides of relatively long chain fatty acids which contribute about 50% of the total caloric content of the powder, is nevertheless solubilized when the powder is manually shaken at 35° C. in a bottle containing 240 ml (8 fl oz) of water.