Abstract
We measured ovalbumin in mother's milk using new method of fluoroenzyme immunoassey. Using this system, we can detecta ovalbumin in mother's milk.
In the milk samples of 40 mother's who had not eaten any egg, no ovalbumin could be detectd except in one sample. In the milk samples of 20 mother's who had eaten two eggs, ovalbumin was detected in 14 samples and the maximum concentration of ovalbumin was 1.8-170.0ng/ml. The concentration reached its maximum between 30-480 minutes after the mother had eaten the 2 eggs. There was no correlation between either the maximum concentraion or the period taken for the maximum ovalbumin concentration to be reached and infant's antibodies in the serum which include total IgE, specific IgE, specific IgG and IgA.
