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GEORGE E. HOLM, PH.D.; BYRON H. WEBB, M.S.

Am J Dis Child. 1930;40(2):260-268.

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The rôle of acidity in digestion depends on the H-ion concentration rather than on the itratable acidity. In experiments with normal breast-fed infants, Marriott and Davidson¹ came to the conclusion that optimum gastric acidity was reached one and one-half hours after feeding and was maintained for one hour. The range of H-ion concentration during the period of optimum gastric digestion was found to be from pH 3.5 to 5, the average being p^H 3.75.

With an increase in the age of infants there is a gradual increase in the H-ion concentration, while disease, malnutrition and infections generally lower the H-ion concentration attained in the stomach.

Cow's milk has a relatively great buffer capacity over the range of H-ion concentration concerned in digestion, and therefore requires a relatively high gastric secretion as compared with that necessary when infants are breast fed.¹

Attempts have been made to modify cow's . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
WASHINGTON, D. C.

From the Research Laboratory, Bureau of Dairy Industry, U. S. D. A., Washington, D. C.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication, Feb. 13, 1930.

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