Should Partial Hydrolysates Be Used as Starter Infant Formula? A Working Group Consensus

Yvan Vandenplas¹, Pedro Alarcon, David Fleischer+13

• ¹*Department of Pediatrics, Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium †National Institute of Child Health, Lima, Perú ‡Denver School of Medicine and Children's Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado §Pediatrics, Department of Clinical Sciences, Umeå University, Sweden ||Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, University of Zagreb Medical School, Zagreb, Croatia ¶Centro de Gastroenterologia y Endoscopia pediatricas Gastroped & Dermatosoluciones Ltda', Bogota, Colombia #Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis **Department of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center and Children's Hospital, Oklahoma City ††Department of Neonatology, University of Liège CHR Citadelle, Liege, Belgium ‡‡Paediatric Department, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy §§Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Israel ||||Department of Translational Medical Science, Section of Paediatrics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy ¶¶Department of Paediatrics, The Medical University of Warsaw, Poland ##Department of Pediatrics, Emma Children's Hospital-AMC and VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands ***Research Institute, Department of Pediatrics, Marien-Hospital-Wesel, Wesel, Germany †††Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.