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Effect of Holder pasteurization on nutrient and immune component retention in human milk: a comparison between water and dry pasteurizers [PDF]

International Breastfeeding Journal
Background Holder pasteurization (HoP; 62.5 °C, 30 min) is the method used most frequently in human milk banks to reduce the risk of infection transmission through donor human milk (DHM), but it has the disadvantage of potentially affecting the contents ...
Miori Tanaka, Midori Date, Kasumi Takayama, Nagisa Matsuura, Katsumi Mizuno   +4 more
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Comparison of bacterial profiles in human milk from mothers of term and preterm infants

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2023
Background Reducing the disposal of donated human milk (HM) is important for efficient management of human milk banks (HMBs). The presence of bacteria growth is the main factor that contributes to the disposal of donated HM.
Kumiko Miura, Miori Tanaka, Midori Date, Mizuho Ito, Noriko Mizuno, Katsumi Mizuno   +5 more
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Feeding Strategies in Newborns and Infants During the COVID-19 Pandemic—Polish Cross-Sectional Study

International Journal of Public Health, 2023
Objective: We aimed to analyze factors affecting feeding strategies of newborns and infants during the COVID-19 pandemic in Poland.Methods: The cross-sectional study using a self-developed CAWI questionnaire was conducted between February and April 2021 ...
Aleksandra Wesołowska, Aleksandra Wesołowska, Bartłomiej Walczak, Kinga Kalita-Kurzyńska, Aleksandra Mołas, Agnieszka Bzikowska-Jura   +5 more
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Human milk banks in the response to COVID-19: a statement of the regional human milk bank network for Southeast Asia and beyond

International Breastfeeding Journal, 2021
Background The World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations on infant feeding in the context of COVID-19 uphold standing recommendations for breastfeeding, non-separation, and skin-to-skin contact, including the use of donor human milk when mother’s ...
Estrella Olonan-Jusi, Paul G. Zambrano, Vu H. Duong, Nguyen T. T. Anh, Nant S. S. Aye, Mei Chien Chua, Hikmah Kurniasari, Zaw Win Moe, Sopapan Ngerncham, Nguyen T. T. Phuong, Janice Datu-Sanguyo   +10 more
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Maintaining human milk bank services throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic: A global response

Maternal and Child Nutrition, 2021
If maternal milk is unavailable, the World Health Organization recommends that the first alternative should be pasteurised donor human milk (DHM). Human milk banks (HMBs) screen and recruit milk donors, and DHM principally feeds very low birth weight ...
Natalie Shenker, Marta Staff, Amy Vickers, Joao Aprigio, Satish Tiwari, Sushma Nangia, Ruchika Chugh Sachdeva, Vanessa Clifford, Anna Coutsoudis, Penny Reimers, Kiersten Israel‐Ballard, Kimberly Mansen, Radmila Mileusnic‐Milenovic, Aleksandra Wesolowska, Johannes B. van Goudoever, Mohammadbagher Hosseini, Daniel Klotz, Anne Hagen Grøvslien, Gillian Weaver, Virtual Collaborative Network of Milk Banks and Associations   +19 more
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Characteristics and factors influencing the volume of breastmilk donated by women to the first human milk bank in Vietnam

Frontiers in Global Women's Health, 2023
BackgroundDonor human milk (DHM) is essential to the operation of human milk banks (HMB). This study examined characteristics and factors associated with higher volumes of DHM donation at the first HMB in Vietnam.MethodData from an online HMB monitoring ...
Hoang Thi Tran, Hoang Thi Tran, Tuan Thanh Nguyen, Oanh Thi Xuan Nguyen, Debbie Barnett, Gillian Weaver, Roger Mathisen   +6 more
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Vitamin E concentration in breast milk in different periods of lactation: Meta-analysis

Frontiers in Nutrition, 2022
ObjectiveThis study systematized information about vitamin E concentration in healthy breast milk during different stages of lactation in order to support the strategies of protecting postpartum women and infants.MethodsStudies published before April ...
Yuandi Xi, Yuandi Xi, Xianyun Wang, Kuo Liu, Huanmei Zhang, Huanmei Zhang, Huanmei Zhang, Xiangnan Ren, Xiangnan Ren, Xiangnan Ren, Ai Zhao, Ai Zhao, Yuexin Yang, Yuexin Yang, Jianqiang Lai, Jianqiang Lai, Jianqiang Lai, Rong Xiao   +17 more
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COVID-19 and Human Milk: Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?

Proceedings, 2023
For most babies, human milk is considered the best form of early life nutrition with additional immediate and long-term benefits for health and development.
Lars Bode
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Differential pre-pandemic breast milk IgA reactivity against SARS-CoV-2 and circulating human coronaviruses in Ugandan and American mothers

International Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2021
Objective: Uganda has registered fewer coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases and deaths per capita than Western countries. The lower numbers of cases and deaths might be due to pre-existing cross-immunity induced by circulating common cold human ...
Thomas G. Egwang, Tonny Jimmy Owalla, Emmanuel Okurut, Gonzaga Apungia, Alisa Fox, Claire De Carlo, Rebecca L. Powell   +6 more
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Human milk banking [PDF]

Paediatrics & Child Health, 2010
It is universally accepted that breast milk is the optimum exclusive source of nutrition for the first six months of life, and may remain part of the healthy infant diet for the first two years of life and beyond. Despite advances in infant formulas, human breast milk provides a bioactive matrix of benefits that cannot be replicated by any other source
Jh, Kim, S, Unger
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