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Cytomegalovirus in Breast Milk of Swedish Milk Donors

Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 1985
81 milk samples collected from 35 donors 3 days to 7 months after delivery were examined for the occurrence of cytomegalovirus (CMV). 30/35 (89%) of the women were seropositive to CMV. The virus was only found in samples from seropositive women collected greater than 8 days to less than 3 months after partus.
K, Ahlfors, S A, Ivarsson
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Donor Milk: What's in It and What's Not

Journal of Human Lactation, 2001
Breastfeeding and human milk are widely recognized as optimal for human infants. However, if donor milk is used when mother's own milk is not available, some questions arise concerning the effects of storage, handling, and heat processing on the unique components of human milk.
D B, Tully, F, Jones, M R, Tully
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Donor Human Milk Banking and the Emergence of Milk Sharing

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2013
Donor human milk has emerged as the preferred substrate to feed extremely preterm infants, when mother's own milk is unavailable. This article summarizes the clinical data demonstrating the safety, efficacy, and cost-effectiveness of feeding donor human milk to premature babies.
Ben T Hartmann
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Characterization of Human Milk Donors

Journal of Human Lactation, 2007
The primary objective of this research was to create a detailed characterization of human milk donors, including descriptive information about demographics and lifestyle, involvement with the milk bank, reasons for donating, problems encountered while breastfeeding and pumping milk, barriers to donating milk, affective experiences, and personal values.
Richard, Osbaldiston, Leigh A, Mingle
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DONOR BREAST MILK

Acta Paediatrica, 1982
Baum, J. D. (University Department of Paediatrics, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, U.K.). Donor breast milk. Acta Paediatr Scand, Suppl. 299:51, 1982.—A simple system for the collection and storage of human milk, as a voluntary community activity, is described.
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Human Donor Milk in Maternity

British Journal of Midwifery, 2023
Ines Salmoral and Denise McGuinness reflect on whether human donor milk should be made available for healthy term infants in the maternity setting
Ines Salmoral, Denise McGuinness
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Donor Milk Banking and Breastfeeding in Norway

Journal of Human Lactation, 2009
Milk banks in Norway have a long tradition of using raw milk. This is a practice the authors hope to continue as they see it as the best choice until a child's own mothers' milk production is sufficient. Not only will the premature babies benefit from having milk from the bank, but if a mother, for any reason, can not supply her baby while it's in the
Anne Hagen, Grøvslien, Morten, Grønn
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Best Practices to Limit Contamination of Donor Milk in a Milk Bank

JOGNN - Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic, and Neonatal Nursing, 2018
Human milk donated to a milk bank can become contaminated in a number of ways, but processes exist to eradicate pathogenic bacterial growth. Donor human milk may be cultured before or after pasteurization or both. The purpose of this article is to describe standard operations of the Mothers' Milk Bank of the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, best ...
Elizabeth B Froh, Diane L Spatz
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Immunomodulatory Constituents of Human Donor Milk

Breastfeeding Medicine, 2020
Mother's own human milk is the best nutrition for infants, especially preterm very-low-birth-weight (VLBW) (≤1,500 g) infants, because of its immune-modulatory constituents that strengthen the infant's host defense, provide protection against infections, and decrease the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC).
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Peer-to-Peer Milk Donors' and Recipients' Experiences and Perceptions of Donor Milk Banks

Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic & Neonatal Nursing, 2013
To explore the intersection of peer-to-peer milk sharing and donor milk banks.A descriptive survey design containing closed and open-ended questions was used to examine women's perceptions of peer-to-peer milk sharing and milk banking. Closed-ended questions were analyzed using descriptive statistics and conventional qualitative content analysis was ...
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