Frozen Mother’s Own Milk Can Be Used Effectively to Personalize Donor Human Milk

Feeding preterm infants mother’s own milk (MOM) lowers rates of sepsis, decreases necrotizing enterocolitis, and shortens hospital stay. In the absence of freshly expressed MOM, frozen MOM (FMOM) is provided. When MOM is unavailable, preterm infants are often fed pasteurized donor human milk (DHM),...

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Main Authors: Monica F. Torrez Lamberti, Natalie A. Harrison, Marion M. Bendixen, Evon M. DeBose-Scarlett, Sharon C. Thompson, Josef Neu, Leslie Ann Parker, Graciela L. Lorca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Microbiology
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.656889/full