Mother’s Milk DHA Test for Healthy Development of Your Baby

  Do you know what structural component is responsible for the development of the human brain, cerebral cortex, retina, skin, and healthy heart function? It’s DHA (docosahexaenoic acid), an important omega-3 fatty acid that is particularly an essential component needed during the first two years of a child’s growth. You know that baby is born in the mother’s womb and fed through the umbilical cord. After birth, the baby is fed the breast milk. Yes, what you need to understand is that the amount of DHA present in your blood quantifies the amount that will be present in your breast milk while you are going to conceive. So you need to measure your DHA level to ensure that it is standard or deficient.

Why is DHA test necessary? 

•       Omega-3 is an ancient nutrient necessary for baby’s developing brain.
•       Breast milk is the best-known source of nutrition including DHA for baby.
•    Your breast milk may be deficient of DHA that doesn’t provide an adequate nutritional supplement to your baby.
•    Mother will be empowered to enhance the DHA level in the breast milk through diet or supplement.
•       The test is done to know the nutritional status of your baby.

Who should take this test?

  Lipomic Healthcare has designed Mother’s Milk DHA Test for the women who are currently breastfeeding and desire to monitor the level of DHA in their breast milk. Adequate DHA helps to the growth of the central nervous system of your baby that ensures rapid development of the critical part of the baby’s health like brain, eyes, heart, and skin during the early stage of infancy. DHA Testing periodically empowers you to provide your baby with the maximum benefits of breastfeeding. If you are deficient in DHA you have a chance to improve by tweaking your diet a bit. Level of DHA in mother’s milk depends mainly on diet. Our body does not produce enough DHA on its own and needs to be supplemented through a fish rich diet. While adults get their DHA from food or supplements rich in Omega-3, a fetus in-utero gets all its nutrients from its mother. Even if a mother doesn’t consume enough DHA, her body will use its own reservoir of DHA to provide it to the baby during gestation and then through breast milk after birth.

 Therefore, it is strongly recommended that mothers monitor their DHA level in order to provide maximum benefit to their baby during-and-after pregnancy.

How does the test work?

•         Order for test and get the kit at your doorstep and follow the procedures as instructed therein.
•          It is absolutely simple to collect the breast milk sample.
•        Fill out the information as requested in the form provided in the kit.
•        Simply take a drop of breast milk onto the collection card provided into the kit. Wait a while to dry up the milk spot.
•      Seal the sample card into the prepaid shipping label envelope which is included in the kit and send the same to the certified laboratory for test.
•         Get your report within a few days.