Lofenalac (pronunciation:Lo-fen-alac) is a registered, trademarked infant powder formula prescribed to replace milk in the diets of phenylketonuria sufferers in the infant and child stage. It is not recommended for non-PKU patients.[2] In 1972, Lofenalac was declared a food by the FDA, for regulatory purposes.[3]
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| Place of origin | United States | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Created by | Mead Johnson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Main ingredients | an enzymatic hydrolysate of casein | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Variations | can be used to make ice cream, pudding, and cake | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 65[1] kcal | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Initially the only available formula recommended was made by Mead Johnson. Others, including Albumaid XP, Cymogran, and Minafen, have since been developed in Britain.[4] Medical texts often recommend Lofenalac.[5][6][7]
Lofenalac can be rather expensive to purchase and few retailers stock it. The taste and smell has been described by adult users as "medical" and offensive,[8] although infants do not mind the flavor and children often consume it without complaint for some years.[9]
See also edit
- Kuvan (trade name for the cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin in a pill form)
- Diet therapy
References edit
- ^ a b "Infant formula, MEAD JOHNSON, LOFENALAC, with iron, prepared from powder". Calorie Counter. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ "LOFENALAC®". RxMed: Pharmaceutical Information. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ Gregory, Arnall Golden (3 July 2013). "What kind of food am I? Medical food history, enforcement and future". Lexology. Retrieved 19 November 2016.
- ^ "Medical foods for the nutritional support of infant/toddler metabolic diseases". SureChem. 1996-08-27. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
Patent Number: 5550146
- ^ Marlow, Dorothy R. (1969). Textbook of pediatric nursing (3rd ed.). Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co. p. 345. ISBN 0-7216-6097-5.
- ^ Roth, Ruth A.; Townsend, Carolynn E. (2003). Nutrition and diet therapy. Cengage Learning. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-7668-3567-2. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
- ^ Stanfield, Peggy; Hui, Y. H. (2009-05-06). Nutrition and Diet Therapy: Self-Instructional Approaches. Jones & Bartlett Learning. pp. 396, 398. ISBN 978-0-7637-6137-0. Retrieved 19 April 2011.
- ^ Brubacher, Joyce (April 17, 1995). "Formula companies respond". MSUD Family Support Group. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2011.
- ^ Pillitteri, Adele; Nettina, Sandra M. (2003). Maternal & Child Health Nursing (4th ed.). Hagerstwon, MD: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 1483. ISBN 0-7817-3628-5.
Resources edit
- O'Flynn, Margaret E. (August 1967). "Diet Therapy in Phenylketonuria". Am. J. Nurs. 67 (8). doi:10.2307/3420702. JSTOR 3420702. S2CID 33692992.
- Acosta, PB; Wenz E; Williamson M. (February 1978). "Methods of dietary inception in infants with PKU". J Am Diet Assoc. 72 (2): 164–9. doi:10.1016/S0002-8223(21)05947-2. PMID 624812. S2CID 1628419.