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Human milk-based fortifiers improve health outcomes for the smallest premature babies

from University of Missouri - Columbia via EurekAlert

Human milk-based fortifiers improve health outcomes for the smallest premature babies University of Missouri - Columbia via EurekAlert Jan Sherman, a professor in the MU Sinclair School of Nursing, collaborated with Alan Lucas, a professor at University College in London, to perform a meta-analysis on various studies involving more than 450 severely underweight, premature babies in the United States, Canada and Austria who received either traditional cow-based milk fortifiers or human-based milk fortifiers. By comparing their health outcomes, they found that the babies who were fed cow milk fortifiers were more than three times as likely to develop necrotizing enterocolitis, a life-threatening intestine disease, and more than twice as likely to develop retinopathy of prematurity, an eye disorder that can lead to blindness. READ MORE

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