Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Exclusive Human Milk Diet Benefits NICU Preterm Babies

Study Finds Lower Rate of Necrotizing Enterocolitis Than a Diet of Bovine Milk-Based Products

Prolacta Bioscience, the first and only company to offer human milk fortifier (HMF) made from 100% human breast milk for premature and critically ill infants, has announced the results of a groundbreaking study that will have long-term benefits for the nutritional care of very low-birth-weight preterm infants (less than 2 pounds, 12 ounces or 1250 grams) in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The study was published in The Journal of Pediatrics December 28, 2009 online edition at www.jpeds.com.

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