OLFACTORY ENRICHMENT DURING BOTTLE FEEDING

描述：奶瓶喂养的婴儿的嗅觉体验很差。 与母乳喂养的婴儿所知的各种嗅觉刺激相比 通常从母乳中吸收。这种减少的嗅觉体验可能会 部分解释了在断奶时对固体食物接受度降低的原因 奶瓶喂养的婴儿，特别是他们对蔬菜的接受程度较低 而不是母乳喂养的婴儿。我们建议测试一种设备和方法，即Favor 调色板，可供父母使用，轻松提供增强的嗅觉 奶瓶喂养中的刺激--改善贫困的体验 配方喂养与丰富发展中的嗅觉环境 婴儿。我们的研究将确定接受了各种不同治疗的婴儿 在断奶年龄，奶瓶喂养环境中与食物相关的气味， 比只接受标准蔬菜的婴儿更容易接受蔬菜 配方。我们的产品为家长提供了一种方便地丰富品种的方法 配方奶粉喂养的婴儿的嗅觉环境，可能会降低 FINKING，改善喂养行为，并确保引入 健康的食物，从而有助于孩子的长期成长和 发展。 建议的商业应用： 每年，美国有300多万母亲用配方奶粉喂养婴儿 固体食品的引入。我们的产品(正在处理的患者)将作为一种 婴儿配方奶粉的伴侣。它将受到父母的欢迎，希望为他们提供他们的 配方奶粉喂养的婴儿有丰富的与喂养相关的气味体验--就像那些 从母乳中获得--并急于在他们的成长过程中促进健康的饮食习惯 孩子。

DESCRIPTION: The olfactory experience of bottle-fed infants is impoverished compared to the varied olfactory stimulation that breast-fed infants are known to normally receive from breast milk. This reduced olfactory experience may partially explain the reduced acceptance of solid foods at weaning in bottle-fed infants, and in particular, their acceptance of fewer vegetables than breast-fed infants. We propose to test a device and method, the Flavor Palette, that can be used by parents to easily provide enhanced olfactory stimulation during bottle-feeding - ameliorating the impoverished experience of formula-fed rearing and enriching the olfactory environment of the developing infant. Our study will determine if infants who received a variety of food-related odors in the context of bottle-feeding will, at weaning age, accept vegetables more easily than infants who received only their standard formula. Our product offers parents a method to conveniently enrich variety in the olfactory environment of their formula-reared infants, potentially reducing finickiness, improving feeding behavior, and assuring the introduction of healthy foods, thus contributing to their children's long term growth and development. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Each year, over 3 million mothers in the U. S. formula-feed their infants in the period before the introduction of solid food. Our product (patient in process) would be marketed as a companion to infant formulas. It would be embraced by parents wishing to provide their formula-fed infant with an enriched experience of feeding-related odors -- like those received from breast milk -- and anxious to promote healthy eating habits in their developing child.