What is known about human milk bank donors around the world: a systematic scoping review. [PDF]
Public Health Nutr, 2022 Objective: The WHO recommends that low birth weight infants receive donor human milk (DHM) when mother’s milk is not available. Systematic reviews have been published regarding clinical outcomes of infants receiving DHM, as well as the impact of ...
Gutierrez Dos Santos B, Perrin MT.
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Breastfeeding and human milk bank in a neonatal intensive care unit: impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in an Italian cohort of very low birth weight infants. [PDF]
Int Breastfeed J, 2022 Background Parental stress in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) is well known, as is the stress induced by the COVID-19 pandemic. This combination might increase stress to the extent of affecting the availability of maternal expressed milk and the ...
Bresesti I +7 more
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Maternal insecurity in breastfeeding women served at a human milk bank [PDF]
Revista Brasileira de Saúde Materno Infantil, 2021 Objectives: to verify the prevalence and factors associated with maternal insecurity in breastfeeding with lactating women treated at a milk bank. Methods: cross-sectional study with secondary record data from January 2017 to December 2018 at the Human ...
Waleska Lima Alves Simas +5 more
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ChildrenBackground/Objectives: One of the most effective strategies to mitigate morbidity associated with preterm birth is the use of human milk. The first choice is the mother’s milk; if that is not available, human milk donated to milk banks is the second ...
Pasqua Anna Quitadamo +8 more
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Trends and Dynamics in the First Four Years of Operation of the First Human Milk Bank in Vietnam. [PDF]
Nutrients, 2021 Background: Since 1979, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have recommended the use of pasteurized human milk from a human milk bank (HMB) to feed low birthweight (LBW) and preterm newborns as the ‘first ...
Tran HT +9 more
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Characteristics of the First Human Milk Bank in Taiwan
Pediatrics and Neonatology, 2013 The benefits of feeding human milk to infants, even in prematurity, have been well documented. Well-organized donor milk processing has made the milk bank a good source of nutrition for premature or sick infants if their own mother's milk is not ...
Fang-Yuan Chang +3 more
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Bacillus cereus Induces Severe Infections in Preterm Neonates: Implication at the Hospital and Human Milk Bank Level. [PDF]
Toxins (Basel), 2021 Human breast milk (HBM) is a source of essential nutrients for infants and is particularly recommended for preterm neonates when their own mother’s milk is not available.
Cormontagne D +5 more
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Improving donor human milk collection in a hospital without a human milk bank: a quality improvement initiative at an urban tertiary-care teaching hospital. [PDF]
BMJ Open Qual, 2021 Feed intolerance and necrotising enterocolitis (NEC) are challenges while treating sick neonates. These can be reduced by giving human milk, but adequate availability of mother’s own milk or pasteurised donor human milk (PDHM) is a challenge in neonatal ...
Garegrat R +3 more
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Setting up the first human milk bank in Uganda: a success story from Nsambya hospital
Frontiers in NutritionBackgroundThe World Health Organization (WHO) strongly recommends the use of donor human milk (DHM) for low birth weight infants when mother’s own milk is unavailable or insufficient. However, the use of DHM requires the availability of human milk banks (
Victoria Nakibuuka +18 more
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Operation Status of the Mutual Aid Human Milk Bank for Preterm Infants and Data Analysis [Response to Letter]. [PDF]
J Multidiscip Healthc, 2023 Wang H, Hu XL, Li QF, Zhou J, Wu MY.
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