University of Palermo

About: University of Palermo is a education organization based out in Palermo, Italy. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Cancer. The organization has 15621 authors who have published 40250 publications receiving 964384 citations. The organization is also known as: Università degli Studi di Palermo & Universita degli Studi di Palermo.

Intolerance to hydrolysed cow's milk proteins in infants : clinical characteristics and dietary treatment

Abstract: Summary Background Multiple food intolerance in infants, including intolerance to extensively hydrolysed proteins (HP), is often difficult to treat. However, few data have been reported on clinical outcome and dietary treatment of these patients. Aims To evaluate the clinical characteristics of patients with HP-intolerance and the longterm outcome of treatment with ass’ milk. Patients and Methods This study included 21 HP-intolerant infants (15 males, median age at diagnosis 2 months) treated with an ass’ milk-based diet and 70 cow’s milk (CM) intolerant infants (40 males, median age at diagnosis 3 months) treated with casein hydrolysate milk-based diet. All patients were followed-up for a median period of 4 years. Both HP-intolerance and intolerance to other foods were diagnosed according to the double-blind placebo-controlled procedure. Formal CM-challenges were conducted at yearly intervals until tolerance was demonstrated. At diagnosis and after one year of the respective diets, the following growth parameters were determined: relative weight for sex and age, relative weight for height and height z-score. Results During the study period, multiple food intolerance was documented in 21/21 HPintolerant infants (ass’ milk group) and in 20/70 infants with CM-intolerance but tolerating HP (casein hydrolysate group) (P< 0.0001). In the ass’ milk group, the more frequent food intolerances were toward soya, oranges, tomatoes and fish; goat’s milk intolerance was demonstrated in five out of six patients receiving this food, and sheep’s milk derivatives intolerance in four out of seven; these patients tolerated ass’ milk. During the study period 3/21 patients in the ass’ milk group became ass’ milk intolerant; they showed vomiting (one cases) or diarrhoea (two cases). A lower percentage (52%) of patients in the ass’ milk group became CM-tolerant during the study period than in the casein hydrolysate group (78%) (P< 0.01) and the age of the children at CM-tolerance was higher in the ass’ milk than in the casein hydrolysate-treated children (P< 0.05). At diagnosis, a higher frequency of cases with elevated serum total IgE and specific IgE to CM antigens (P< 0.01) was observed in the ass’ milk group. No difference was recorded between the two treatment groups in any of the growth parameters considered either at diagnosis or during the follow-up. Conclusions HP-intolerant patients showed a higher frequency of persistent food intolerance and of multiple food intolerance than patients tolerating casein hydrolysate. Ass’ milk feeding was confirmed as a safe and valid treatment of the most complicated cases of multiple food intolerance.

The existence of best proximity points in metric spaces with the property UC

Abstract: Eldred and Veeramani in [A.A. Eldred, P. Veeramani, Existence and convergence of best proximity points, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 323 (2006), 1001–1006. MR2260159] proved a theorem which ensures the existence of a best proximity point of cyclic contractions in the framework of uniformly convex Banach spaces. In this paper we introduce a notion of the property UC and extend the Eldred and Veeramani theorem to metric spaces with the property UC.