Breast milk contains fungi which may help seed a baby's microbiome
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Maria Carmen Collado
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The most prevalent was Malassezia, a genus of fungi found in oil-producing glands on skin and hair, followed by Davidiella, a genus of fungi also found in the vagina.Regional differences suggest environmental factors such as diet or geography play a part in the fungal composition of breast milk, says Collado.This is important, because mothers transfer a unique mix of bacteria and fungi to their newborns, she says.Saccharomyces boulardii is a fungus currently given to infants to reduce the severity of diarrhoea.
As said here by Ruby Prosser Scully