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Using donor human milk to feed vulnerable term infants: a case series in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa

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 reduces the incidence of necrotising enterocolit...

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Autores principales: Reimers, Penelope, Shenker, Natalie, Weaver, Gillian, Coutsoudis, Anna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6131835/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30214466
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-018-0185-6
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description 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 reduces the incidence of necrotising enterocolitis, late onset sepsis and improves outcomes. There is a paucity of literature documenting outcomes of using donor human milk in older children who need additional support for a variety of health issues. CASE PRESENTATION: A series of seven case studies is presented of orphaned and abandoned children, many of whom were either HIV exposed or positive. All children were fed with pasteurised donor human milk at a transition home and their progress reported. CONCLUSIONS: Although detailed medical records were not always available, the case studies provide anecdotal evidence of the protective effects of donor human milk against failure to thrive, diarrhoea, atopic dermatitis, and opportunistic infections.
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spelling pubmed-61318352018-09-13 Using donor human milk to feed vulnerable term infants: a case series in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa Reimers, Penelope Shenker, Natalie Weaver, Gillian Coutsoudis, Anna Int Breastfeed J Case Report 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 reduces the incidence of necrotising enterocolitis, late onset sepsis and improves outcomes. There is a paucity of literature documenting outcomes of using donor human milk in older children who need additional support for a variety of health issues. CASE PRESENTATION: A series of seven case studies is presented of orphaned and abandoned children, many of whom were either HIV exposed or positive. All children were fed with pasteurised donor human milk at a transition home and their progress reported. CONCLUSIONS: Although detailed medical records were not always available, the case studies provide anecdotal evidence of the protective effects of donor human milk against failure to thrive, diarrhoea, atopic dermatitis, and opportunistic infections. BioMed Central 2018-09-10 /pmc/articles/PMC6131835/ /pubmed/30214466 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13006-018-0185-6 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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title_full Using donor human milk to feed vulnerable term infants: a case series in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
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title_short Using donor human milk to feed vulnerable term infants: a case series in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6131835/
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