人们已知道母乳的成分最适合婴儿生长发育的需要,又知道母乳中含有抵御病菌、病毒的抗体,因此,母乳哺育的婴儿体格较为健壮。近来,科学家对母乳的功能又有新发现。 母乳不仅能杀死婴儿体内多种外来病原微生物,还可杀死婴儿肠道内的一些寄生微生物,如繁殖于婴儿肠道的引起腹泻的鞭毛虫和阿米巴类病原虫。这是因为人类乳汁独有的脂肪分解酶具 It has been known that the composition of breast milk is most suitable for the growth and development of infants and that breast milk contains antibodies against germs and viruses. Therefore, breast-feeding infants are relatively robust. Recently, scientists have newly discovered the function of breast milk. Breast milk can not only kill a variety of foreign pathogenic microorganisms in the baby’s body, but also kill some parasitic microorganisms in the infant’s intestine, such as diarrhea-causing flagellates and amoeba-like protozoa that breed in the baby’s intestines. This is because human milk is a unique lipolytic enzyme