Perinatal Nutrition among Benefits and Protection: Breastfeeding and COVID-19
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Women's Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 1812
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metabolomics and microbiomics in perinatal medicine; developmental programming of health and disease; nutritional properties of breast milk in term and preterm infants, perinatal medical humanities
Interests: clinical neonatology; metabolomics and microbiomics in perinatal medicine; developmental programming of health and disease; nutritional properties of breast milk in term and preterm infants
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The waves of the COVID-19 pandemic continue despite advances in immunoprotection against SARS-Cov-2.The virus harbors secrets that scientists must strive to uncover. This is also true in the field of perinatal SARS-Cov-2 infection and in particular with regards the transmissibility of SARS-CoV-2 through or during breastfeeding and the protection against infection that breast milk can provide.
Great interest concerns the peculiar role of breast milk in neonatal nutrition and development, the biofluid naturally predisposed to neonatal growth sustaining the delicate phase of adaptation to postnatal life, therefore influencing his whole life.
In this context, the power of breast-milk associated perinatal programming is that, in the first weeks of life, it can change the fate of newborns’ metabolism.
This issue aims to collect reviews and original articles that help shed light on little known aspects of breast milk in relation to COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 transmission through breastfeeding, the presence of anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in breast milk of affected mothers, the levels and effects of innate immunity related antiviral components. Moreover, COVID-19 metabolic changes in breast milk and the specific lactobiome related to SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, in relation to the offspring health, which could highlight the potential effects of maternal infection on neonatal development.
Dr. Puddu Melania
Prof. Dr. Flaminia Bardanzellu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Breastfeeding
- COVID-19
- SARS-CoV-2
- immunity
- antibodies
- COVID-19 vaccines
- newborn
- microbiomics
- metabolomics
- preterm newborn
