The use of human donor milk | The BMJ

When a mother’s own milk is unavailable for preterm or low birthweight infants, pasteurised donor milk protects against necrotising enterocolitis compared with formula milk Pasteurised donor milk can also be used to supplement the mother’s own milk in order to meet an infant’s nutritional needs and can be administered in the same ways as the mother’s own expressed milk The only absolute contraindication to the use of pasteurised donor milk is galactosaemia. Mothers with active pulmonary tuberculosis or herpes simplex lesions on the breast should be encouraged to feed expressed breast milk, while mothers with covid-19 should be advised to continue breastfeeding A 25 year old woman gave birth to her first child prematurely, at 27 weeks gestation, at Da Nang Hospital for Women and Children, in central Vietnam. The male infant weighed 980 grams and required continuous positive airway pressure respiratory support in the neonatal intensive care unit. Neonatal care nurses provided breastfeedi

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