Milk Treatment

People who have suffered [blank] inflammatory bowel disease will know the discomfort and inconvenience it can cause, [blank] symptoms including abdominal pain, diarrhoea and bloody stools. Treatment comes with side effects. Also, most drugs are effective for less than a year; thereafter, the patient no longer responds well [blank] the treatment, said Assistant Professor Wang Jiong-Wei at the National University of Singapore's Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. He and his colleagues believe, however, that a type of milk nanoparticle they have extracted may be the answer [blank] these problems. These milk particles are derived from milk that had most of its components, such as lactose, removed by a series of processes. They are a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair and can be seen only with an electron microscope and can pass through the gut and survive the stomach's gastric environment to reach the intestines. At the disease sites, they will reduce gut inflammation and restore the bacterial community [blank] . They also have the potential to protect the gut barrier, which helps the gut to absorb nutrient molecules for the body's use, said Wang.