Effect of Mother DHA Supplementation on Premature Newborn.

To date, the investigations in the field of the supplementation with DHA in premature babies have been focused on the study of neuronal and visual development, giving place to contradictory and ambiguous results, because they did not consider in many cases important aspects of this supplementation, such as the mother´s diet, dose, duration, etc., and precise studies have not been performed in the field of the oxidative damage, inflammation and bone development in this population.

Hypothesis: If the composition of the mother´s milk is modified on the basis of her diet, a mother supplementation with high doses of DHA will increase proportionally the levels of this fatty acid in her milk, fact that will allows the premature newborn child receive a major dose of this fatty acid, and therefore this way, we will manage to improve the neuronal and visual development and to take part on the inflammatory process, oxidative damage and its evolution, together with the development or bone mass increase in the premature baby.

Aims: Overall we aim to evaluate in a multidisciplinary way the effect of a mother supplementation during the lactation with high doses of DHA on the development and wellness of the premature newborn children. We try to deepen into the effect on the neuronal and visual development and to study, for the first time, the effect on the oxidative damage, pro- and antiinflammatory citoquines activity and bone metabolism in this group of newborn babies.