Impact of Donor Human Milk in an Urban NICU Population [PDF]
Children, 2022 The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends the use of donor human milk in infants when mother’s own milk is not available. Our objective was to analyze whether the use of donor human milk in preterm, very-low-birth-weight (VLBW,
Ahreen Allana +3 more
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"Donor milk banking: Improving the future". A survey on the operation of the European donor human milk banks. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2021 BackgroundProvision of donor human milk is handled by established human milk banks that implement all required measures to ensure its safety and quality.
Eva Kontopodi +19 more
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Metabolomic Profile of Personalized Donor Human Milk. [PDF]
Molecules, 2020 Human milk could be considered an active and complex mixture of beneficial bacteria and bioactive compounds. Since pasteurization drastically reduces the microbial content, we recently demonstrated that pasteurized donor human milk (DHM) could be inoculated with different percentages (10% and 30%) of mother’s own milk (MOM) to restore the unique live ...
Torrez Lamberti MF +5 more
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A Decision Tree for Donor Human Milk: An Example Tool to Protect, Promote, and Support Breastfeeding [PDF]
Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018 Despite decades of breastfeeding promotion, exclusive breastfeeding rates for the first 6 months of life remain low: around 40% globally. Infants that are admitted to a neonatal ward are even less likely to be exclusively breastfed.
Shelley Brandstetter +13 more
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Using donor human milk to feed vulnerable term infants: a case series in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa [PDF]
International Breastfeeding Journal, 2018 Background Donor human milk is the World Health Organization’s recommendation for infant feeding when the mother’s own breast milk is unavailable. Breast milk has been shown to reduce morbidity and mortality and in low birthweight infants, donor milk ...
Penelope Reimers +3 more
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How much does a liter of donor human milk cost? Cost analysis of operating a human milk bank in Italy [PDF]
International Breastfeeding Journal, 2022 Background To date, 40 Human Milk Banks (HMB) have been established in Italy; however, recent cost analysis data for operating an HMB in Italy are not available in the literature. Methods This study was a cross-sectional study performed at “Bambino Gesù”
Guglielmo Salvatori +8 more
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Donor human milk: the influence of processing technologies on its nutritional and microbial composition [PDF]
Frontiers in NutritionHuman milk is regarded as the gold standard nutrition for newborn infants, providing all nutrients required for adequate growth and development from birth to 6 months.
Ruth Conboy-Stephenson +7 more
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PLoS ONE, 2023 IntroductionMother's own milk is the best nutrition for every newborn and especially for vulnerable infants such as preterm infants with a very low birth weight below 1,500 grams (VLBW).
Nadine Scholten +11 more
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The Effects of Thermal Pasteurisation, Freeze-Drying, and Gamma-Irradiation on the Antibacterial Properties of Donor Human Milk [PDF]
Foods, 2021 The most common pasteurisation method used by human milk banks is Holder pasteurisation. This involves thermal processing, which can denature important proteins and can potentially reduce the natural antimicrobial properties found in human milk.
Katherine Blackshaw +6 more
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Donor human milk practice in Indonesia: a media content analysis [PDF]
Frontiers in NutritionIntroductionDonor human milk (DHM) is recommended as the second-best alternative form of supplementation when a mother is unable to breastfeed directly.
Andini Pramono +2 more
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