Breast Milk and the High-Risk Baby: Potential Benefits and Hazards
- 1 May 1979
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Hospital Practice
- Vol. 14 (5), 81-86
- https://doi.org/10.1080/21548331.1979.11707544
Abstract
Encouraged by evidence that breast-fed babies get fewer infections than formula-fed babies and that human milk contains a number of protective nutritional and immunologic factors, many centers are establishing breast-milk banks for the feeding of high-risk infants. However, the advantages of banked human milk remain to be proved, while the risks arising from environmental and other contamination are well established.Keywords
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- Host resistance factors in human milkThe Journal of Pediatrics, 1973