COMPOSITIONS FOR USE IN REDUCING PAIN AND/OR PAIN PERCEPTION IN INFANTS AND YOUNG CHILDREN Russian patent published in 2024 - IPC A23L33/21 A23L33/10 

FIELD: food industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to compositions for an infant under age of 12 months or a young child. Artificial nutritional composition for an infant under age of 12 months and a milk mixture for children from 1 to 3 years old contain a mixture of breast milk oligosaccharides consisting of 2'-fucosyllactose (2'-FL) and difucosyllactose (DiFL). At that, 2'-FL and DiFL are the only oligosaccharides of breast milk in the nutritional composition or milk formula, which are used in the method of reducing pain and/or perception of pain in an infant under age of 12 months or a young child aged one to less than three years. Invention enables to obtain a nutritional composition for an infant under age of 12 months or a milk mixture for a young child, which are especially effective in restoring sensitivity of bidirectional pathways of pain transmission along the "intestine-brain" axis to normal levels.

EFFECT: nutritional composition and milk formula, in particular, are useful for reducing abdominal pain associated with gastrointestinal discomfort and/or functional gastrointestinal disorders, and, therefore, also promotes reduction of crying periods and improvement of sleep quality, general quality of life, mood, playfulness, temperament and/or well-being of infants and young children.

21 cl, 4 dwg, 1 tbl, 3 ex