I.N. KHOLODOVA¹, T.A. TITOVA², L.R. KUDAYAROVA², G.A. KULAKOVA³, V.V. NECHAEVA⁴, T.G. FETISOVA⁵, M.V. ZHELTUKHINA⁶

¹Russian Medical Academy of Continuous Professional Education of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation, 2/1c1 Barrikadnaya Str., Moscow, Russian Federation, 123995

²Bashkir State Medical University, 3/100 Lenin Str., Ufa, Russian Federation, 450000

³Kazan State Medical University, 49 Butlerov Str., Kazan, Russian Federation, 420012

⁴Moscow Children’s Clinic №122 (branch 1), 61 Izmaylovskiy bl., Moscow, Russian Federation, 105077

⁵Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University, 18 Kremlevskaya Str., Kazan, Russian Federation, 420008

⁶Central City Clinical Hospital №18, 2А Rikhard Zorge Str., Kazan, Russian Federation, 420058

Kholodova I.N. ― D. Med. Sc., Professor of the Pediatrics Department, tel. (495) 496-52-38, e-mail: chin5@yandex.ru

The authors discuss the properties and role of goat’s milk in nutrition of babies in the first year of life. The article presents the results of an open multicenter randomized research. The results show that feeding healthy full-term babies with goat’s milk substitute formula provided prevention of GIT functional disorders, reduced the likelihood of inflammation in gut lining, and enhanced the growth of metabolic activity of intestinal microflora. The breast milk substitute formulae from goat’s milk had a number of advantages over feeding babies with cow’s milk formula.

Key words: infants, breastfeeding, properties of goat’s milk, goat’s milk and cow’s milk substitute formulas, functional disorders, fecal calprotectin, SCFAs.